will
carry the magic suggestion to the brain.

A person who has been reared in luxury and refinement would be so
affected by the suggestion of uncleanliness and disorderliness in a
cheap Bowery eating-place that he would lose the keenest appetite. If,
however, the same food, cooked in the same way, could be transferred to
one of the luxurious Broadway restaurants and served upon delicate
china and spotless linen with entrancing music, the entire condition
would be reversed. The new suggestion would completely reverse the
mental and physical conditions.

The suggestion of the ugly suspicions of a whole nation so overpowered
Dreyfus during his trial that it completely neutralized his
individuality, overbalanced his consciousness of innocence. His whole
manner was that of a guilty person, so that many of his friends
actually believed him guilty. After the verdict, in the presence of a
vast throng which had gathered to see him publicly disgraced, when his
buttons and other insignia of office were torn from his uniform, his
sword taken from him and broken, and the people were hissing, jeering,
and hurling all sorts of anathemas at him, no criminal could have
exhibited more evidence of guilt. The radiations of the guilty
suggestion from millions of people completely over-powered his own
mentality, his individuality, and, although he was absolutely innocent,
his appearance and manner gave every evidence of the treason he was
accused of.

There is no suggestion so fatal, so insinuating, as that of impurity.
Vast multitudes of people have fallen victims to this vicious, subtle,
fatal poison.

Who can depict the tragedies which have been caused by immoral, impure
suggestion conveyed to minds which were absolutely pure, which have
never before felt the taint of contamination? The subtle poisoning
infused through the system makes the entrance of the succeeding vicious
suggestions easier and easier, until finally the whole moral system
becomes saturated with the poison.

There is a wonderful illustration of the power of suggestion in the
experience of what are called the Stigmatists. These nuns who for
years concentrated all of their efforts in trying to live the life that
Christ did, to enter into all of His sufferings, so completely
concentrated all of their energies upon the Christ suffering, and so
vividly pictured the wounds in their imaginations, that their thought
really changed the chemical and physical struct