THE HUMAN MIND

Evening Star, Issue 21013, 29 January 1932, Page 9

THE HUMAN MIND

MR HOLMES'S FIRST LECTURE Mr William Holmes, international lecturer, of Los Angeles, California, commenced a series of seven free public lectures in the Y.M.O.A. Assembly Hall last evening, speaking on the subject, ‘ The Marvellous Abilities of the Human Mind.' The lecturer attracted a very appreciative audience, who gave Mr Holmes a hearty welcome and much applause. “ We have advanced as a race and as a people, in industry, science, and manufactures with tremendous rapidity during the past twenty-live years, culminating in a spontaneous out-thrust from toilsome evolution into an era of new things and new conditions almost incomprehensible. In this advancement the cultivation of the powers of -the human mind have been neglected. We have not mentally kept pace with physical evolution, hence the era of contracted thought and the state of depression,” said Mr Holmes. “We do not understand our present situation, our conditions, our progress, nor the causes of present stagnation. Human health decreases as so-called civilisation advances. We have more hospitals—alike a symbol of man’s "rowing humanity, but monuments to his ignorance—more doctors and more medicines. These are the results of the breach of mental laws. We have the unprecedented numbers, hosts of misfits in the struggle for existence. We have, the multitudes of failures—the countless numbers of those who are not getting the great good out of life, self-expression, and permanent happiness. All these are results of the inadequate use of our mental powers. “There ’are laws of mind which can bo known and used, and which will grow brains for is, in exactly the same way as the athlete grows his muscles, and fit us to cope with all conditions. They will make us the masters rather than the servants of circumstances. It is the field of applied psychology which teaches what these laws are, and it is tho function of this science to apply these laws so as to bring a full measure of health, prosperity, and happiness into individual life.” Mr Holmes illustrated his lecture with incidents, stories, and poems, and received a very hearty round of applause at the conclusion, when he recited Walter Malone’s ‘ Opportunity ’ with good elocutionary effect. Mr Holmes will lecture to-night on the subject, 1 Healing Without Medicine.’ All his lectures are free..