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Show The Destructlveness of Worry. (Xorth Amrica.i Review.) As a force, worry is purely negative, and therefore destructive; it never incites; in-cites; it always d Is aju rages, became back of it -s tear fei'-, noi of tome-thing tome-thing in view, but of the terrifying unseen. un-seen. It Is the nightmare of "'.ay, cru- i elly absorptive of mental and physical j energies, and, of all diseases, the most nerve-lacerating. Such 'force, obvj- j ously, can not help, but must necessarily necessar-ily hinder, the removal of obstacles, . since itself has already sapped the very-qualities very-qualities essential to success and broken brok-en the power of resolution. Moreover, constant brooding often brings to pass the very thing dreaded, which otherwise would not have happened. hap-pened. We all have noted instances of the making up of a story from nothing, and its telling and retelling so many times that ultimately the author himself him-self honestly believes it to be true. So with worry, beginning with doubt and mere imaginings, proceeding by steady stages through more definite apprehension appre-hension to settled expectation, and finally culminating in actual realization. realiza-tion. Even though this conclusion be not reached, it often happens that a mere fancy feeds and feeds and grows and grows, until the continuous thought becomes so dominant that the effect of the dread becomes as harmful as that of the unfulfilled reality would have been. Yet more serious is the deprivation of aid from others brought about by the transference of fcpression. In these days of co-operation, none, except possibly pos-sibly our chief magistrate, is capable of really great accomplishment single-handed; single-handed; each is dependent, consciously or unconsciously, upon his fellows. It is essent'al. therefore, to maintain the effectiveness of the helpful forces which must be drawn upon from that source. Instead of doing this, as some suppose, by creating sympathy, worry, exercises . a directly contrary influence by self-communication self-communication to other minds. |