HOW TO THINK 



Yet beyond peradventure, your mind has better pos- 

 sibilities than this. If you will but make the effort to 

 clear out its dusty chambers, you can in due time make 

 it a treasure-house of ideas. If you will challenge your 

 prejudices and resolve to be no longer their slave, you 

 may come to be indeed a reasoning being and not a 

 mere thinking automaton. If you will cultivate an 

 interest in points of view and aspects of life that you 

 have hitherto antagonised, you may develop unsuspected 

 creative powers; for in the last analysis sympathy is the 

 mother of imagination. And when, even in the small- 

 est way, you have known the joys of creative think- 

 ing, you will have shared in some measure in the sub- 

 limest privilege that nature has vouchsafed to man; 

 you will have grown away from your former self; you 

 will have found new meanings in life; stage by stage 

 you will have risen "on stepping-stones of your dead 

 self to higher things" than you had hitherto conceived. 



