BOOK REVIEW

Every Man A King

By Dr.Orison Swett Marden
Bangalre, Nesmas Books, paper back edition, pp.112, p.70.
In this book Every Man A King nothing is said about the author. It has no preface, introduction,
index, bibliography etc. But from the name of the author ti is known that he has a doctorate and this
book is so rich in its good arrangement of presentation, clear and simple language with examples.
The main point that this book deals are that the power of mind or thought over our body or
action. It is mind, which rules the condition and action of our body. By controlling our thought we can
rule our body.
The first chapter in this book named Steering Thought Prevents Wrecks says that mind governs
everything in our world, but this force has been neglected and misunderstood. The possibility of thought
training are infinite, and it consequences are eternal. But nobody cares this aspect. The auther says that
we must think and every thought is a blow that forges a part of our lives. Therefore we have to
resolutely determine to turn thought to good use and then stiffen our will to carry out that determination.
In the second chapter named How Mind Rules the Body, the author says that there must be
realization of the power of mind and its importance. We must be convinced that a bad thought harms us,
and a good thought helps us. Thought alone is eternal, it is the master of our fate, and the thought of
every moment has its part in deciding our fate.
The most wonderful results of the experiments made by Pro. Gates was the discovery that certain
states of mind produces chemical products in the body. The results of his experiments were that when
the breath of a patient was passed through a tube cooled with ice, hen the patient became angry there
appeared a brownish precipitate, a chemical compound produced by the emotion, in extreme sorrow,
gray precipitate, remorse, a pink precipitate etc. and gates says that depressing emotions generate
injurious compounds, which are exreem;y poisonous and happy emotions generate compounds of
nutritious value. Pro. Jacques Leob says that the particle of the living matter change from positive to
negative and negative to positive by the influence of thought.
Third Chapter named Thought Causes Health And Disease speaks that some sudden and
powerful thoughts has deranged the bodily mechanism that it has stopped. fright- that is , a thought of
fear stopes the hearts action. Exitement set if beating so hard that a blood vessel burst in the head.
Strong emotion has caused the formation of chemical compounds, probably of sulpher, which changes

the colour of the oil of the hair. Thus fright and grief bleach the human hair. So evry thought has a part
in making our body healthy or diseased.
In the fourth chapter Our Worst Enemy is Fear, the Author says that thoughts deadly instrument
for marring human lives is fear. It demoralizes character, destroys ambition, induces or causes disease,
paralyzes happiness in self and others, and prevents achievement. It is all evil. It impoverishes the
blood by demoralizing assililation and cutting of nutrition. It lowers mental and physical vitality,
deadens every element of success. Human life is involved in this pernicious habit of anticipating evil
and it is a waste of energy. Thus one of the greatest tasks in character building is to eliminate, to uproot,
to wipe out completely the baleful effects of fear. No one can hope entirely happy and successful
without the eradication of the fear germs. It is thte duty of every individual to conquer this common
enemy in his own mind and wrest other people also.
In chapter five he narrates how to over come the fear. In order to overcome fear, we must
understand what it is we fear. It is always something that has not get happened or not existing. Trouble
in something an imaginary that we think of, and which frighten us with its possibility. Once the belief of
danger was eradicated, the fear was gone. Si if we could rise te conviction that fear is an image of the
mind and it has no existence except in our consciousness, and no power to harm, except that which we
give it, then we could be liberated from this evil. In overcoming our various fears, we have to put a
logical conclusion to convince ourselves that the present moment the thing we fear do not exist. Whether
ever come to pass in the future or not, our fear is a waste of time, energy and actual bodily and mental
strength. If we worry about something, worry about the terrible effects of worrying, it may help us to a
cure. Merely convincing ourselves that what we fear is imaginary wont suffice until we trained our
mind to throw off suggestions of fear, and to combat all thought that leads to it.
In the sixth chapter Killing Emotion the author says that fear is not only emotion that can do us
deadly harm, grief, longstanding jealousy and corroding anxiety are responsible for many causes of
insanity. Emotion thus kills reasons. Grief is one of the best known and most recognized of these
killing emotions. Even joy kills when its impact is too sudden. Even if the emotion is not strong enough
to kill, its effect may be most injurious. A fit of anger will destroy appetite, unsettle the nerves, up sets
the whole physical make-up etc. Jealous will upset the entire system and is one of the most deadly
enemies to health, happiness and success. The victims of jealous become so demoralized mentally that
they commit murder or suicide or go insane. A strong continual hatred will not only destroy digestions,
assimilation, and peace of mind, but also absolutely ruin character. These bodily effects of the emotion,

and many others, are in part due to certain chemical products formed in the body by the emotions.
Medical men say that they are analogous to the venom of poisonous snake, which is like wise secreted
under the influence of fear and anger. The snake has a sac in which to store the venom, we have none,
and it spreads through all the tissues in spite of efforts to eliminate it. Self-control is the preventive of
anger. Logic and deliberation in judging of incidents and their effect on one are conductive to selfcontrol.
In the seventh chapter, Mastering Our Mind, he says that man is naturally a lazy animal, and
when things go hard with him the temptation to slip over or get around the difficult place is very strong.
But all our bad emotions should be banished from the mind by the resolute, masterful will. Anger,
irritation, jealousy, depression, sour feelings, morose thought, worry are all psychological devils, the
cure for bad moods is to summon good ones to fill ones whole minds and thought which rewires a
strong effort of will. The expelling power of a contrary emotion is practically perfect, if the new thought
be stronger than the old. Hold just the opposite thought from that which depressed us, and we will
naturally reverse the mood. And the imagination has great power to change an unpleasant thought or
experience. The way to get cheerful is to smile when you feel bad. The only cure for selfishness is
sacrifice; the only cure for indolence is work. Until we can master our moods, we can never do our best
work.
In the eight chapter, Unprofitable Pessimism, he says that one can make trouble of anything if
the mind is set that way. By constantly holding discouraged, dejected, melancholy, gloomy thought,
people make themselves receptive to all that depress and destroys. Thousands of people go looking for
disease. They keep on hand antidotes for malaria and something for cold, and medicine for every
possible ailment. And they are sure they will all come some time. The fact is that the only thing that is
wrong is their own minds. If there is malaria in the mind, if there is miasma in the thought, these will
appear in the body. It is only a question of time. The imagination, wrongly used, is one of our worst
foes. Some times people think themselves the target for all sort of evil, the object of such kinds of
imaginations and thoughts kill happiness, demoralize usefulness and throw the mind out of harmony and
become unsatisfactory. A most injurious and unpleasant way of looking for trouble is fault finding,
continual criticism of other persons. A strong positive man does not allow himself to talk and think
negatives. The pessimist atmosphere is always deadly to health and fatal to business as well as morals.
The balanced soul is never suspicious, does not expect, trouble, but quite the reverse.

In the ninth chapter, The Power of Cheerful Thinking, he says that the cheerful man has a
creative power. The effects of cheerfulness are an actual life giving influence thorough a normal
channel, the results of which reach every part of the system. It brightens the eye, makes ruddy the
countenance, bring elasticity to the step, and promotes all the inner force by which life is sustained. The
blood circulates more freely, the oxygen comes to its home in the tissues, health is prompted, and
disease is banished. When the mind is self-poised and serene, every faculty and function falls into line
and work normally. There is equilibrium and health everywhere in the body. The serene mind can
accomplish infinite more than the disturbed and discordant.
In the tenth chapter, Negative Creeds Paralyses, he says that negative never accomplish anything.
The creative principles cannot live in a negative destructive atmosphere, and no achievement can take
place there. Negative will paralyze our ambition. It will kill our confidence. We must throw all
negative suggestions to the wind. We must think success before we can achieve it. As long as we
contemplate any personal defects, mental or physical, we will fall below our possible attainment. Most
people go though life crippled and handicapped by thinking weak thoughts, diseased thought, and failure
thoughts. Man cannot be free, prosperous and happy while he is imprisoned and enslaved by the
poverty thought.
In the eleventh chapter, Affirmation Creates Power says that only he can who thinks he can.
Confidence is the father of achievement.

It reinforces ability, doubles energy, buttresses mental

faculties, increase power. Our thought will carry only the force of our conviction, the weight of our
decision, the power of our confidence. Constant affirmation increase courage, and courage is the
backbone of confidence. When a person reinforces his courage and strengthens his confidence, he also
wakens the opposite qualities. Whatever strengthens a positive will weaken the corresponding negative.
Perpetual affirmation helps us to build up individuality and personal power. It will make our brain clear
and our thought more effective. Through constant affirmation we can strengthen our weak qualities.
Constantly affirmation that which we wish, hold it persistently in the thought, concentrate all the power
of our mind upon it, and when the mind is sufficiently positive and crests the desired thing will comes to
you as certainly as a stone will come to the earth, when left free in the air, through the attracting
influence of gravitation.
In the twelfth chapter, Thoughts Radiate As Influence says that our thought has a radioactive
power with influence they fly from us every instant. Even our most secret, unuttered thoughts go forth
and affect the world.

Every man has an atmosphere peculiar to himself, pervaded by all of his

characteristics, his ambition and aspirations, absolutely determined by the thoughts that govern all his
actions. It is nit what we say so much but the bearing of our thought toward others forms their estimate
of us. We are not known only by what we say, but we are measured by what we choose to give people
about ourselves. We create in others the impression, which we hold in our own mind. People can tell by
our silent radiations the character of our ideals, and they estimate us accordingly. We radiate what we
fell and belief, our fleeting moods and our deep-seated convictions. If the mind is harmony and peace, if
it is strong and healthy, we radiate health, peace and harmony wherever we go. Learn to radiate joy
generously. When the world learns that love thought heal, that they carry balm to wounds. That thought
of harmony, of beauty, and of truth always uplift, beauty and ennoble; the opposite carry death,
destruction and flight every where. It will learn the true secret of right living.
In the thirteenth chapter, How Thinking Brings Success, he says that though actions are for
muscle, it is the mental attitude, not the physical ability determines the result of our action. Domination
was mans birthright, but he has adopted weakness and limitations. Constant acknowledgement of our
weakness or doubt of ones ability to accomplish weakness the mind and renders it totally unfit for
effective thinking. Confidence, absolute trust is a creative force, which generates, produce and achieves.
A strong self-faith, by eliminating doubt and uncertainty, wonderfully increase the power of
concentration, because it withdraws distracting motives. Never allow ourselves to destroy our selfreliance, for this is the very foundation of all great achievement.
In the fourteenth chapter, Power of Self Faith Over Others, says that success is not dependent
solely on our earnest affirmation or self confidence, but also on the confidence of others in us. It is the
attitude of mind when which produce this confidence in others in is. It is the attitude of mind which
produce this confidence in others. Our earnest affirmation is contagious. It affects everyone with whom
we come in contact. The confident air influences other people. When an man feels a sense of mastery,
he talks with confidence, he radiates faith and conviction and overcome doubts in others. A dtermind
face and an iron will ain half the battle before a blow is struck.
In the fifteenth chapter, Building Character says that continual thinking about defects in character
will impress them and make them harder to eradicate. We gradually become negative to good qualities
by dwelling upon destructive characteristic. Similarly by dwelling on desirable qualities we mwy
acquire success or happiness. It is by fresh grafts and suggestions of the virtues that the soundest
character growth is secured. It is possible to develop strong character even in the average child under

continuous, proper, scientific training. Those repeated thought acts develop corresponding brain cells
until they respond at the slightest suggestion from an affinity.
In the sixteenth chapter, Strengthening Deficient Faculties, Speaks that if we are conscious of a
mental weakness, a deficient faculty, using a little concentration, thinking in the opposite direction, and
dwelling upon the perfect faculties or qualities our desire would soon put us in a normal condition. It is
normal thinking that makes the normal life. Affirm that which we wish and it will manifest in our life.
If e hold persistently in the mind the picture of the normal faculty which correspond to the one you think
is deficient, we will soon bring about the desired result.
In the seventeenth chapter, Gain Beauty By Holding The Beauty Thought says that the basis of
all real beauty is a kindly, helpful heart, and a desire to scatter sunshine and good cheer everywhere, and
this shining through the face, makes it beautiful. The longing and the effort to be beautiful in character
can not fail to make the life beautiful and since the out ward is but an expression of the inward, a mere
out picturing on the body of the habitual thought and domination motives, the face, the manners, the
bearing must follow the thought and become sweet and attractive.
In the eighteenth chapter, The Power Of Imagination tells that we owe to the imagination for the
improvement of the world and the climb to civilization. The men and woman who have rendered the
greatest service to the world have done so by seeing in their imaginations something infinitely better
than actually existed, and then working to makes this real.
In the nineteenth chapter Dont Let The Years Count speaks that the face can not betray the years
until the mind has given its consent. The mind is the sculptor. When a man becomes wise enough to
recognize his own divinity-that he is as indestructible principle as a law of mathematics, that no accident
of life, no friction, trouble, or difficulty can touch the divine part of him; and when he recognizes the
truth of being, that he is a part of the infinite creative principle he will not begin to show sign of mental
and physical decrepitude when he should be in the prime of all his powers. Age will never succeed in
retaining a youthful appearance and mentality until people make up their mind not to let the years count;
until they cease to make the body old by the constant suggestions of the mind. We are as old as we think
we are. It is healthful activity that strengthens and preserves the mind as well as the body, and gives it
youthful quickness and activity. The greatest conqueror of age is a cheerful, helpful, loving spirit. a
man who would conquer the years must have charity for all.
In the twentieth chapter, How To Control Thought says that it is possible to change the character
of mind by habituallu controlling the thought . controlled by the will and directed by reason and higer

judgment we can discipline the mind and thought that they will dwell on higher ideals, until high
thinking has become a habit . Then the lower ideals and lower thinking will drop out of consciousness
and the mind will be lift upon a higher place. So when we gain the power of concentration e must
cultivate perfect fearlessness and confidence with which go cheerfulness, efficiency and as a result,
happiness and prosperity.
In the last chapter The Coming Man Will Realize His Divinity says that a happy successful
career must flow from a will.