388 THE PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL POWERthe mind of one or more persons and registers itself in the minds of
other persons through the principle of telepathy. So strong is the power
of mob psychology that two men fighting in the street will often start
a "free-for-all" fight in which bystanders will engage each other in
battle without even knowing what they are fighting about, or with
whom they are fighting.
On Armistice Day 19 I 8, we had extraordinary anecdotal evidence
of the principle of telepathy, on a scale such as the world had never
before witnessed. I remember, distinctly, the impression made on my
mind on that eventful day. So strong was this impression that it had
awakened me at about three o'clock in the morning, just as effectively
as if someone had aroused me by physical force. As I sat up in bed I
knew that something out of the ordinary had happened, and so strange
and impelling was the effect of this experience that I got up, dressed,
and went out in the streets of Chicago where I was met by thousands
of others who had felt the touch of the same influence. Everyone was
asking: What has happened?
What had happened was this:
Millions of men had received instructions to cease fighting, and
it was their combined joy that set into motion a thought wave which
swept the entire world. Perhaps never in the history of the world had
so many millions of people thought oj the same thing, in the same manner;
at the same time. For once in the history of the world, everybody felt some-
thing in common, and the effect of this harmonized thought was the
worldwide "mob psychology" that we witnessed on Armistice Day. It
will help you to better understand this statement if you recall what
was said in the introductory lesson of this course about the method of
creating a Master Mind-through the harmony of thought of two or
more persons.
We will bring the application of this principle a little nearer home
by showing how it may either make or break the harmonious working
relationship of a business or industry. You may doubt that it was the