Suggestion of Repetition may become great sources of right

action, providing the moving cause is good. And so, Suggestion

of Imitation becomes a mighty power for righteousness in the
hands of the right persons, and when conducted along the right
lines. Those who set good examples, and fashions, influence
people just as do those who are at the opposite pole of precept.
Good health is just as contagious as disease. When Suggestion
of Imitation is well understood by the public generally, there will
be a demand for the suppression of the things giving the hurtful
suggestions, and for the encouragement and advancement of
those setting good examples, and furnishing the right kind of
suggestions. The remedy is plainit is for the people to use it.
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Chapter V.
Instances of Suggestion.
In looking around about us for the purpose of gathering
instances of typical forms of Suggestion, we are embarrassed
by a wealth of material. Instead of having to hunt for such
instances, we rather :find it difficult to escape the numerous
instances of the use of Suggestion which insistently push
themselves upon us from all directions. Suggestion is f!!uch
an active motive principle of human conduct that we :find
ourselves unable to escape from evidences of its operation,
when once we have had our attention directed to the subject.
We pick up the morning paper, and there we see hundreds of
instances which will work their suggestive influences, for good
or evil, upon the ~inds of those who read them. Here is related
the example of some man who has given his life for humanityand
someone will accept the suggestion, and his life will be
influenced by the example of this man. Here is related the
thieving achievements of some shrewd hierophant of Frenzied
Finance, whose example will be noted and acted upon by some
of its readers. Here is the recital of a crime, suicide, or scandal,
which will plant its suggestive seed. in some congenial soil, there
to grow into action. Here is some inspiring bit of news, which
sends a suggestive thrill through us, and nerves us to higher and
Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion