idged.

Let me turn now to the kind of case, the religious case, namely, that
immediately concerns us. Here is one of the simplest possible type, an
account of the conversion to the systematic religion of
healthy-mindedness of a man who must already have been naturally of the
healthy-minded type. It shows how, when the fruit is ripe, a touch
will make it fall.

Mr. Horace Fletcher, in his little book called Menticulture, relates
that a friend with whom he was talking of the self-control attained by
the Japanese through their practice of the Buddhist discipline said:--

"'You must first get rid of anger and worry.' 'But,' said I, 'is that
possible?' 'Yes,' replied he; 'it is possible to the Japanese, and
ought to be possible to us.'

"On my way back I could think of nothing else but the words get rid,
get rid'; and the idea must have continued to possess me during my
sleeping hours, for the first consciousness in the morning brought back
the same thought, with the revelation of a discovery, which framed
itself into the reasoning, 'If it is possible to get rid of anger and
worry, why is it necessary to have them at all?' I felt the strength
of the argument, and at once accepted the reasoning. The baby had
discovered that it could walk. It would scorn to creep any longer.

"From the instant I realized that these cancer spots of worry and anger
were removable, they left me. With the discovery of their weakness
they were exorcised. From that time life has had an entirely different
aspect.

"Although from that moment the possibility and desirability of freedom
from the depressing passions has been a reality to me, it took me some
months to feel absolute security in my new position; but, as the usual
occasions for worry and anger have presented themselves over and over
again, and I have been unable to feel them in the slightest degree, I
no longer dread or guard against them, and I am amazed at my increased
energy and vigor of mind, at my strength to meet situations of all
kinds and at my disposition to love and appreciate everything.

"I have had occasion to travel more than ten thousand miles by rail
since that morning. The same Pullman porter, conductor, hotel-waiter,
peddler, book-agent, cabman, and others who were formerly a source of
annoyance and irritation have been met, but I am not conscious of a
single incivility. All at once the whole world has turned good to me.
I have become, as it were, se