796 THE PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL INTEGRITY
The second is the Cooperation between the conscious and the
subconscious minds, which is the basis upon which I have built my
hypothesis that we can develop the ability to contact, communicate
with, and draw upon irifinite intelligence.
Although the foregoing hypothesis may seem unreasonable to you
at this point, study the facts upon which the hypothesis is based, and
then draw your own conclusions.
Let us begin with a brief review of the physical construction of
the body.
COMMENTARY
In the material that follows, Napoleon Hill quotes from The Edinburgh Lectures
on Mental Science by Judge Thomas Troward. The book was first published in
1909 and most recently reprinted in 1989 in paperback. The reviews on
Amazon.com are relatively current and generally favorable despite new theories
having been developed since it was first written and despite some of the rather
archaic writing.
A review posted in 2002 says that it's very easy to understand and
calls it "a classic by one of the pioneers of New Thought. " That reviewer
also recommends Troward's "masterpiece, "The Creative Process in the Indi-
vidual. A 2000 review calls it "half philosophy, half science, " saying "the
premise, condensed down to three words, is 'faith changes reality. '" And
a 1998 review also recommends Your Invisible Power by Genevieve Behrend,
Troward's student, saying that her book outlining the same principles is
more basic.We know that the whole body is traversed by a network of
nerves that serve as the channels of communication between
the indwelling spiritual ego, which we call mind, and the func-
tions of the external organism.