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Mind over matter
Because the muscles of the blacksmith's arm are strongly developed, it does not follow that exercise has produced this result or that a less used arm must be weak. If matter were the cause
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Muscles are not self-acting. If mind does not move them, they are motionless. Hence the great fact that Mind alone enlarges and empowers man through its mandate, - by reason of its demand for and supply of power. Not because of muscular exercise, but by rea- son of the blacksmith's faith in exercise, his arm becomes stronger.
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