So when I returned to New York City I told my experience to my audiences at Town Hall. A man present said to himself, he didn’t say it to me, he said to himself, “I’m going to disprove this principle. I’m going to do it tonight,” and this is what he did: He hadn’t climbed a ladder in years; there was no occasion for it. But that night, because he hadn’t climbed one in years, he thought he would do that, for there was no occasion for climbing a ladder. So he sat in his easy chair, and he took this imaginary ladder, and up he climbed the ladder. He did it over and over, climbing the ladder until he went sound asleep in the act of climbing up a ladder. Four days later, he visited a friend he hadn’t seen in years. And she asked him, as a gentleman, if he wouldn’t mind climbing a ladder and rearranging a picture beyond her reach. He didn’t realize what action took place until he was on the very top of the ladder and saw the evidence. When it dawned upon him that he had proven the principle he became so emotional he almost fell off.983 ¶21