in outer material form.  Thought is the great builder in human life:  it is the determining factor.  Continually think thoughts that are good, and your life will show forth in goodness, and your body in health and beauty.  Continually think evil thoughts, and your life will show forth in evil, and your body in weakness and repulsiveness.  Think thoughts of love, and you will love and will be loved.  Think thoughts of hatred, and you will hate and will be hated.  Each follows its kind.

It is by virtue of this law that each person creates his own “atmosphere”; and this atmosphere is determined by the character of the thoughts he habitually entertains.  It is, in fact, simply his thought atmosphere—­the atmosphere which other people detect and are influenced by.

In this way each person creates the atmosphere of his own room; a family, the atmosphere of the house in which they live, so that the moment you enter the door you feel influences kindred to the thoughts and hence to the lives of those who dwell there.  You get a feeling of peace and harmony or a feeling of disquietude and inharmony.  You get a welcome, want-to-stay feeling or a cold, want-to-get-away feeling, according to their thought attitude toward you, even though but few words be spoken.  So the characteristic mental states of a congregation of people who assemble there determine the atmosphere of any given assembly-place, church, or cathedral.  Its inhabitants so make, so determine the atmosphere of a particular village or city.  The sympathetic thoughts sent out by a vast amphitheatre of people, as they cheer a contestant, carry him to goals he never could reach by his own efforts alone.  The same is true in regard to an orator and his audience.

Napoleon’s army is in the East.  The plague is beginning to make inroads into its ranks.  Long lines of men are lying on cots and on the ground in an open space adjoining the army.  Fear has taken a vital hold of all, and the men are continually being stricken.  Look yonder, contrary to the earnest entreaties of his officers, who tell him that such exposure will mean sure death, Napoleon with a calm and dauntless look upon his face, with a firm and defiant step, is coming through these plague-stricken ranks.  He is going up to, talking with, touching the men; and, as they see him, there goes up a mighty shout,—­The Emperor! the Emperor! and from that hour the plague in its inroads is stopped.  A marvellous example of the power of a man who, by his own dauntless courage, absolute fearlessness, and power of mind, could send out such forces that they in turn awakened kindred forces in the minds of thousands of others, which in turn dominate their very bodies, so that the plague, and even death itself, is driven from the field.  One of the grandest examples of a man of the most mighty and tremendous mind and will power, and at the same time an example of one of the grandest failures, taking life in its totality, the world has ever seen.