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Copyright, 191!. by the l*tßr Company. Great Britain Rights Reserved.
Bp NSIDE of your own skin is the real YOU—
S that thing which you own, and which is
going to decide your success or failure in
p this world.
With the aid of YOURSELF you may
acquire and own outside things—property, reputation,
luxury. But your real possession is that BODY with its
eyes and brain and nerves, the physical home in which
7 our snirit dwells on this physical planet.
We have just cast our votes in this country to decide
what the whole nation shall do, how it shall plan, leg
islate and manage to increase its comforts, prosperity
and happiness.
Candidates and voters had been thinking earnestly—
OR THEY OUGHT to have thought earnestly—about
the possibility of making the nation, the states, the
cities, the villages and the farms more efficient.
The nation as a whole is simply made up of individ
uals like the man in this picture. And what the na
tion as a whole does is merely the sum total of what
the individuals do.
Now that the election has passed and the shouting
has died away, and the voting is over and the success
ful candidate known, you still have in front of you the
everlasting problem, WHAT SHALL I DO WITH
MYSELF?
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It is a good thing sometimes to see what others have
done, to realise what can be accomplished with the hu
man body, the instrument with which each of us comes in
contact with the material world.
Mr. Coffman has an interesting thought in the picture
here presented, showing what various individuals have
done to achieve success and fortune with various parts
of their physical personality.
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Beginning at the bottom, we find the feet —the humble
servants of the body that carry us back and forth and
hold up our weight and bear the heavy burden.
The feet in the human body are very much like the
hard working class in the social body—always carrying
the load, always in the mud when there is any mud, hav
ing the hard work and little of the fun.
Yet, even the feet, intelligently educated, can make
■onditions cheerful. The artist quotes Mordkin, the
Russian dancer, who could earn $1,500 a week, S3OO a
day, for five days’ skilful dancing.
If Taglioni, the great Italian woman, could come back
• 4 show to the world the almost lost and forgotten art
of classic dancing, she could probably get three times as
much as this Russian, Mordkin.
So here you see that even the feet, properly edu
sated, can earn more than the vast majority of highly
educated heads.
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Then the artist shows you the legs, with the wonderful
joints at the knees, and the marvellous set of muscles,
front and back, giving to two legs in man the power of
four leers in the running animal.
Many an ancient Greek with his legs achieved fame
that the philosophers would have envied.
At the Olympic Games the winner who could run fast
est with the aid of his legs was escorted back to his
native town and a special hole made in the wall of the
city to let him enter in triumph.
We attach less importance to legs now, and the artist
can only think of a famous runner, Shrubb, who has made
SIOO,OOO in races.
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The other purely physical money-earning details of
the body are interesting. The baseball pitcher with his
right arm can earn $9,000 a year.
A prize fighter like Fitzsimmons, the Australian, with
an extraordinarily powerful left forearm, can win half a
million, and the admiration of all that is animal in the
public.
Gotch has earned half a million dollars wrestling. The
power in his shoulders and backbone has brought him
that, sum.
Then you have the hands, that have earned a million
dollars for Paderewski, the pianist, and you have the
mouth and throat, the nasal cavity, the marvellously ad
justed vocal cords that have earned fortunes for Caruso
and other great singers.
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It is interesting to study these details, for we all like
something practical, something with figures printed,
something that we can look at and say, “That is a part
of myself, and I might do that.’’
But, of course, we all know that in reality success is
not achieved by the feet or the legs or the shoulders or
th* hands. Even in the case of those that fight in the
prize ring, or race on the track, or dance for public amuse
—it, IT IS THE BRAIN THAT REALLY DOES THE
WORK.
If Mordkin can earn $1,500 a week dancing, it is be
What Are YOU Worth?
Here Is a Picture of a Human Body,
Chopped Up into Sections with More or
Less Accurate Estimates of Possible Value.
What Are You Worth as a Human Be-,
ing? Which Is the Most Valuable Part of\
You? What Are You Doing to Make Other
Parts More Valuable? These Questions
Should Interest Those Struggling to the,
Top and Toward Success. I
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cause he has rhythm and grace IN HIS BRAIN. The
feet obey the brain.
If Caruso can sing marvellously and earn $2,500 iu one
night, it is because he has the power to sing in his brain.
And even with the fighters that endure brutal punish
ment,. and the runners that race until the heart stops, vic
tory is due to the brain, to the power that keens sending
to the muscles through the nerves the order, “Don’t stop;
don’t be discouraged; don’t feel pain.”
The brain that enables Rockefeller to earn a billion
of dollars, the brain, that gives success to the baseball'
player or the piano player—the brain is the telegraph
room through which the mind or the soul works, send
wg orders through the nerves, that are the telegraph
wires; to the muscles, which are the workers.
Whatever w$ do. however we succeed, the brain does it.
Amd the eyes are the companions, the teachers, the
news-bearers of the brain.
They watch and see and take into the mind on those
wonderful optic nerves pictures of the outside world, in
formation with which the brain works and accomplishes
its purposes.
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Your brain does all of the work; there is nothing to
you but your brain, and the brain itself is in reality noth
ing. Jt is a collection of cells receiving impressions from
s he outside world, and sending orders t‘o the body, as the
orders are given bv the thinking power, by that thing
which has neither shape nor size nor form nor color, and
which, so far as we know, occupies no space—that thing
which we call the soul.
You cannot see it; it occupies no particular cel! nr
group of cells in the brain. It dwells probablv in ev»ry
single cell in the body, and concentrates directing effort
in the brain.
As it works so you succeed or fail; as its chief agent.
WILL POWER, conquers or fails, so you go up or go
down.
The YOU. that invisible something which lives in the
mind, works through the mind, and then through the
body, and decides your success or vour failure.
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Some have said that the will power is bevond our con
trol, and that the mind or soul cannot, conquer conditions.
Great philosophers have said that our temperament
governs us and we cannot govern it: we are like an
automaton, wound up before we come into the world,
and compelled to run as we were wound.
Tut that is not so. The brain in the head of the man on
this picture CAN DECIDE. It can send its energies and
pnwer to the feet and there earn a living.
It can develop that right arm. as does Ma thewson, the
baseball player, and earn a living there.
It can painfully and laboriously those marvel
lous hands, as Paderewski did. and, expressing the soul
through the hands, earn a great fortune and give hap
piness to many.
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Look at yourself as you look at this picture. Wh it
opportunities are there in your body and in your mind
that are neglected? How can you make the whole ma
chine more useful and effective?
How can you develop this or that part of your bodily
engine? How can you control the appetite that makes
the bodv fat. when it. should be or the taste for drink
that makes the body and the mind dull when they should
be alert, or the frivolous inclinations that waste time and
sleep, and cheat the future?
Those are questions for every man and woman—and
especially the young—to ask.
Some of us are luckier than others at, birth. liiheM
tarce is the greatest, of all fortunes, and a man can have
only what he inherits. Nothing on earth would make a
Napoleon of a commonplace little boy No tenchi.n'/ in
the world would make a Newt,on of a Paganini, or a
Paganini of a Newton.
The great thing is, however. TO DEVELOP V/’-IAT
YOU HAVE ACTUALLY GOT.
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There i« nn nofrnallv however hiw'.’'’,
however far from the extraordinary, who cannot, if ■■ ’
will, make Out of his mind and the bodv th ■'.l trn??: vitl-,
an honorable success, a life of happiness and a lifn of
usefulness.
The great thing is that Paganini should be directed
toward music, and work at it, and that Newton’s won
derful mind should be directed toward mathematics. AND
WORK AT THAT.
The great thing is that you should determine to find out
what you ■'"•n do best. AND WORK AT IT.
Look at this body, mapped off financially.
Look at your own; think about the mind that is tiring
inside of your brain; think about the world around you
with its endless possibilities.
And while you are thinking and deciding how you shall
vote to help the country as a whole, think and decide how
you shall work and plan, AND WILL, to help your indi
vidual self as a whole.