Your Mental Resources For Success

The Brain

Man's Mental Nature - the brain - is the second greatest human power in the universe, second only to the spiritual nature of man.

The brain is the most complex and efficient physical organism created by God. No other creation or invention has the human brain's ability to think, to imagine, to analyze, discriminate and balance, to synthesize, to decide, and to act with purpose.

Scientists have forever sought to duplicate the human brain, but to no avail. The man-made brain can not be made to do the many things the human brain can do. In their research to duplicate a human brain, the scientists have discovered that it just cannot be done. As someone has explained, "it would require a machine made up of radio tubes, and wires, and mechanical parts as tall as Rockefeller Center in New York City, and as big in area as San Francisco's Cow Palace; it would take all the power of Niagara Falls to run it, and its rushing waters to keep the machine from overheating." And yet, despite the gigantic electronic and mechanical marvel thus envisioned by the minds of our greatest scientists, this machine would not be able to do myriads of things that can be done by the human brain, that miraculous little "three-pound pinko-grey jelly organ with its ten thousand million nerve cells.'

The Power Of The Mind

The development and efficient use of one's brain power is, therefore, of paramount importance and a most rewarding enterprise, for it is literally true as the ancient wise man Seneca declared so many centuries ago: "A good mind possesses a kingdom."

Many other great men in history have expressed the same profound respect for the human mind. Virgil said: "Mind moves matter"; Plato declared: "Mind is ever the ruler of the universe"; Michelangelo, the renowned painter and sculptor, believed: "The hand that follows intellect can achieve"; Napoleon, the great militarist-dictator, said:

"There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind." And the famed philosopher, Herbert Spencer, put it this way: "It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor." And so it follows that, as Euripides reasoned so long ago:   "Bodies devoid of mind are as statutes in the market place."

A good mind, then, is an asset without compare. If it is diligently developed and intelligently used it is potent with power for success and happiness. "Such is the delight of mental superiority," said the lexicographer and poet, Samuel Johnson, "that none on whom nature or study have conferred it, would purchase the gifts of fortune by its loss."

But mental power, as Herbert Spencer declared, "cannot be got from ill-fed brains." It is something that can be achieved only through continuous study and serious thought.

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