By EDWARD ANTON.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, July 13, 1918.
l am being frequently asked, by all sorts of people, what is the actual difference which Pelmanism makes in a man or woman.
The question is best answered by simile. "Pre-war" is a term of which, unfortunately, all of us recognize the significance; it refers to a standard of values and a state of affairs which have completely passed away—for the most part beyond the possibility of recall.
"Pre-Pelman" indicates a similarly complete change in the individual. Of no other system of training, of no other experience can it be so surely said that it re-creates the individual and opens up an entirely new view of life.
"In my pre-Pelman days" is a phrase which one often hears, and it refers to a condition of mind which—compared with the present—can only be termed embryonic.
Few people have truly realized—prior to taking a Pelman Course—what boundless possibilities lay ready to their hands. I have seen letters from Pelmanists telling of positions occupied by them and salaries gained by them which far transcended the wildest dreams of their "pre-Pelman days."
I think that those who adopted Pelmanism years ago deserve especial phrase for their enterprise and broad-mindedness. Nowadays the sheer force of evidence or testimony or weight of public opinion (which has become enthusiastically Pelmanistic) almost compels every progressive man or woman to take a Pelman Course.
But these earlier Pelmanists—these pioneers of the new movement—these experimenters with a new idea (as it was then)—these were clear-sighted beyond the normal. Even before the stress of war made the demand for efficiency so insistent, they had apparently grasped the vital fact that training was an essential to efficiency of mind as to efficiency of body
And they were right. Subsequent events proved it; scientists agreed with it; and—most important of all—their own experiences endorsed it. And to-day the value of mind-training is a matter which is no longer open to question.
Two Years’ Progress
In the last two years—largely owing to the courage with which "Truth" boldly advocated to the new movement—Pelmanism has won national recognition. In the whole of the Empire there is not a class of the community which has not adopted Pelmanism.
Brain-workers, manual-workers, soldiers, sailors, and civilians, men and women, tutors and students, scientists and society leaders—each class has found in Pelmanism a source of new strength, a key to opportunities, an avenue to new possibilities.
"Too marvelous to be true," says the skeptic. But once he begins his study of "the little grey books" his skepticism is quickly dispelled. One such skeptic, to the writer’s own knowledge, declared that each of the twelve books of the Pelman Course is worth 100 British Pounds to him! And this in a few weeks after declaring that the claims made for Pelmanism were unbelievable.
"Nothing in the world would make me willingly part from my Pelman books," writes another one-time skeptic. Mr. George R. Sims and Sir James Yoxall, M.P., both own that they viewed Pelmanism with suspicion, until actual acquaintance with its principles opened their eyes and made them enthusiastic.
Look at the list of prominent men who have written in warm praise of the System and of the results achieved by its aid by all classes of men and women. In addition to Mr. George R. Sims and Sir James Yoxall, there are:
- Sir W. Robertson Nicoll, the veteran editor of "The British Weekly," and on of the most eminent litterateurs of the present day,
- Sir H. Rider Haggard, a writer whose fame is literally world-wide,
- Sir Robert S.S. Baden-Powell, the brilliant soldier, defender of Mafeking, and founder of the Boy Scout movement,
- Mr. H. Greenhough Smith, life-long editor of "The Strand Magazine"
- Mr. Max Pemberton, the gifted novelist, who says in his article
"The Romance of Pelmanism"
…that "I do not know that there is, or is going to be, any greater real romance in this 20th Century than the romance of Pelmanism."
Every day Pelmanism is attracting more and more attention.
- The masters and tutors of our great public schools are taking it up.
- Officers of the Army and Navy discuss it at mess and in the war-room.
- Men study it in the trenches in the very firing line.
- Business men and women con their “little grey books” upon every chance occasion.
"Pelmanism," in fact is no longer a mysterious "cult" known only to a select few; its students are numbered by the hundred thousand, and there is not a remote corner of the Empire in which you will not find a startling large number of Pelmanists.
The results are as varied as the vocations of the students.
- Salaries doubled (and in many cases trebled)
- Professional and social advancement
- Promotion for military and naval officers and men
- War distinctions
- Educational honors, and
- A tremendous gain in the interests and pleasures which go to make life desirable and worthy
38,000 New Enrollments
In five months more than 38,000 men and women have enrolled for a Pelman Course! Nothing could show more plainly the growing strength of this new movement—a movement which is of infinite importance both to the individual and to the nation.
Professional men and women find that "Pelmanizing" results not only in an immense economy of time and effort, but also in vastly more efficient work. It says something for Pelmanism when members of such different professions as solicitors, doctors, barristers, clergymen, architects, journalists, accountants, musicians, and schoolmasters have all expressed their emphatic appreciation of the value of Pelmanism as a means of professional advancement.
Members of Parliament (both Houses), Peers and Peeress, men and women high in social and political life, famous novelists, actors, and artists, scientists, professors and University graduates and tutors—the "little grey books" have ardent admirers amongst all these. Even Royalty is represented—and by several different families these days.
The end.
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