error.

If once in error, possibly many times. Burn that into your soul.

Régime 8. You should also recall the mistakes of your life. You have thus suffered injury. If you can write this on the retina of your eye, perhaps you may reform a little of your cocksure attitude. Some of your mistakes have injured others. If you do not care about this, close the present book and "gang your ain gait." The pig-pen has one remedy-fire and the sword.

CONCLUSION OF PART IV.

In conclusion of the two preceding chapters, it would be well for every person occasionally to submit to selfexamination as to the reign of habits, whether immoral or otherwise. Beware of the "devil's palsy of self-approbation." Let a list of personal faults be carefully and deliberately made. They should be scrutinized severely to ascertain their power and results. Then resolve to destroy them, root and branch. Begin at once. Carry the list with you. Frequently read it. Determine, again and again, to be rid of them. Give each a definite time for extirpation. Preserve a record of success and failure in this respect. Read this at the close of each day of battle. Continue until free.

Meanwhile, in all things, cultivate the resolute, conquering Mood of Will. You can be free!

RESOLVE "ATTENTION TO THE KING ON HIS THRONE!!"

SPEECH.

All objects of creative power have speech;

Else how her laws might Earth her children teach How might the vaster Mother, Universe,

Her ancient Vedas with Lord Time rehearse,

Till Psyche waked and dared life's endless reach?

The countless atoms threaten or beseech,
In forest, mountain, valley, ocean, beach-
All objects speak in language clear and terse.

Such speech is aye for better, ne'er for worse,
Till man evolves his blessing or his curse.
Yet man with heart afire may beauty preach —
To him the gift of eloquence in speech!

The words of kings do largesses disburse;
The gifts of kings do but their kingdoms nurse:
Let nought unmeet thy sovran word impeach!

-THE AUTHOR.

PART V.-CONTACT WITH OTHER PEOPLE.

ELOQUENCE.

With self the soul companions through the night,
Mayhap with friends beyond etheric sight,

Nor holds the speech of earth in lust and might,
But language born for service and delight.

Now when the world returns to day and toil,
And life is huge activity and moil,
Our words betray our blindness and the soil,
And so we fain must ape them or recoil.

Supreme the task to utter gracious thought,
Diviner yet to have it, nobly sought;
And only when high passions, swiftly wrought,
Sublime the soul, is power's secret caught.

From labor patient comes the godlike art
Of thought's conveyance, but the burning heart
In eloquence of life plays chiefest part —
The master aye of cloister or of mart.

Who craves the golden tongue must lift and climb,
Know lairs of eagles and the look sublime,
Yet fires that purge the valley's dust and grime,
Vast solitudes and yet the mob of time.

With self must he companion through the night,
And with high friends who own the larger sight,
Drink youth's eternal waters of delight,
And win the human soul for truth and right.

-THE AUTHOR.

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CHAPTER XXVI.

THE WILL IN PUBLIC SPEAKING.

HILE engaged in the composition of my Elements of Chemistry,' I perceived, better than I had ever done before, the truth of an observation of Condillac, that we think only through the medium of words; and that languages are true analytic methods. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged."-Lavoisier.

"In a thousand emergencies men have been obliged to act with quickness, and, at the same time, with caution; in other words, to examine subjects, and to do it with expedition. The consequence of this is, that the numerous minute circumstances, involved more or less in all subjects of difficult inquiry, are passed in review with such rapidity, and are made in so small a degree the objects of separate attention, that they vanish and are forgotten."- Professor Upham.

The design of this chapter is suggestive only to the author's elaborate and practical work, "Power For Suc cess." Power of Will is here the central consideration, and the following pages have mainly to do with that factor.

The chief difficulties of public speaking relate to thought, language and imagination. Those who lack one