That cast a healing spirit on the souls of men. When you were relating the episode in the great outdoors, any allusion to the discovery of America would have branded you as insane. This same power works its miracles in everything that we do. If a man sets out to do a certain task, he cannot work efficiently, no matter if that task be one of pleasure or of difficulty and distaste, unless he is able to concentrate completely on the work at hand and to obviate all other irrelevant matter.
The student who would be proficient at his classes must be able to study history without being interrupted in his reasoning with things outside the realm of history and history that relates to what he is studying. Any thoughts of the good time he had last Friday night or of the good times he is going to have are detrimental. He not only wastes his time if such things creep in but he cannot gain the knowledge that he wishes from the subject he is working on.
The good cook is, likewise, the cook who can thing biscuits while she is baking biscuits. She must be able to throw herself into the environment of biscuit making. She must thing biscuits, dream biscuits, and bake biscuits. She cannot be waltzing to the dreamy tunes of the village orchestra and bake edible biscuits.
But the power of forgetting enables not only to do work successfully, but it alleviates a world of sadness and suffering. It changes the outlook of life from one of gloomy foreboding to one of bright enchantment. 