BOOKS BY CHARLES BRODIE PATTERSON A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW Earth. Thought Studies of the Fourth Dimension. 12mo, cloth. $1.25 net. WHAT IS NEW THOUGHT? The Living Way. 12mo, cloth. $1.00 net. THE RHYTHM OF LIFE. A fundamental examination of laws relating to rhythmic and vibratory forces that influence the sphere of thought and feeling. 8vo, cloth. $1.50 net. THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY NEW YORK THE RHYTHM OF LIFE BY CHARLES BRODIE PATTERSON "" 66 66 A NEW AUTHOR OF "DOMINION AND POWER,' 'THE WILL TO BE WELL,” 66 39 66 Formerly Editor of Mind and The Arena NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS FOREWORD DEAR DR. CHARLES BRODIE PATTERSON THIS is a work for which I have long waited. I find here a fundamental examination of spiritual and physical laws relating to the rhythmic and vibratory forces that rule in the human sphere of thought and feeling. At a time when so much work is done, having mere impressionism as a basis, it is a source of joy to know that you have put into this book the product of years of patient observation and searching analysis, and I feel certain that it will stand the test of time. In Chapter III, under the title "Energy-MotionVibration," you go to the foundation of the subject of vibration, and in "Music and Colour Tones" you show their relation, and write with absorbing interest. My first experience with the therapeutical power of music was in Paris at a time when the subject was not even discussed; but not until I went to live in London did I put the subject to a practical test. A friend of mine, the late Miss Clara Barton, who was for a long time President of the Red Cross Association of America, being dangerously ill, I was strongly impressed to try what musical improvisation would do in her case; a piano was moved into her apartment, and there every day I improvised for about one hour. The experiment proved successful, and in a comparatively short time Miss Barton was able to leave her bed. The cure proved permanent. I could relate many instances of a similar nature among my friends in Florence, Berlin, and other cities. M363258 |