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Physiology – Chapter 7 of Science and Health 1910, last edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. See SUBTITLE Text content below.

  	    Because the muscles of the blacksmith's arm are
30	strongly developed, it does not follow that	                           Mind over
  	exercise has produced this result or that a	                           matter 
  	less used arm must be weak. If matter were the cause
 1	of action, and if muscles, without volition of mortal
  	mind, could lift the hammer and strike the anvil, it
 3	might be thought true that hammering would enlarge
  	the muscles. The trip-hammer is not increased in size
  	by exercise. Why not, since muscles are as material as
 6	wood and iron? Because nobody believes that mind is
  	producing such a result on the hammer. 
  	    Muscles are not self-acting. If mind does not move
 9	them, they are motionless. Hence the great fact that
  	Mind alone enlarges and empowers man through its
  	mandate, — by reason of its demand for and supply of
12	power. Not because of muscular exercise, but by rea-
  	son of the blacksmith's faith in exercise, his arm becomes
  	stronger.