4. Never defer decided action. Go immediately into the business determined upon.

5. Always conjoin with this Mood that of energy.

IV. The Mood of Continuity:

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2.

3.

Count the cost.

Repeat constantly the resolution involved.

Do not brood over difficulties.

4. Keep the goal in sight.

5. In all continuous effort hold to the fore the Mood of utmost energy, and cause decision to act like a trip-hammer incessantly on the purposed business.

6. Regard each step or stage as a goal in itself.

Act by act -the thing is done!

V. The Moods of Understanding and Reason:

1. Know, first, what the matter proposed involves.

I.

2. Know, secondly, what defeat means.

3. Know, thirdly, what success signifies.

4. Understand your own weakness.

5. Understand your own powers.

6. Thoroughly understand how to proceed.

Become acquainted with all details connected with an undertaking, and with the reasons for one method of procedure or another.

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6.

with yourself.

Permit nothing in self to hoodwink judgment.
Put yourself always in the other man's shoes.
Examine all moral traditions.

7. Reject nothing because it is old.

8. Approve nothing because it is new.

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10.

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Settle no question by expediency.
Seek all possible light.

Live up to all light possessed.

12. Follow your best instincts.

13. Try your ideas by the opinions of others.
Surrender to all good and wise impulses.

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15. Love truth supremely.

16. Be as anxious to discover duty as you ought to be to perform it when discovered.

The foilowing remarkable paragraph, by John Stuart Mill, almost epitomizes the right use of Will-power:

"He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision. And these qualities he requires and exercises exactly in proportion as the part of his conduct which he determines according to his own judgment and feeling is a large one. It is possible that he might be guided in some good path, and kept out of harm's way, without any of these things. But what will be his comparative worth as a human being? It really is of importance not only what men do, but also what manner of men they are that do it. Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting and beautifying, the first in importance surely is man himself."

But the work of this chapter will not be finished so long as dependence is placed on the objective self alone. There is a deeper self which must be trained to accept and act on the rules above suggested. It is a mistake to expect self-development from external activities exclusively. If y you go over the rules until they are thoroughly

imbedded in the sub-conscious phases of your mind, they will then "germinate," so to speak, and in time become "second nature." In the meantime, it will be advisable to affirm mentally somewhat as follows: "I am absorbing these principles of conduct, and in so doing am affirming that the moods indicated are surely becoming mine, actual factors in my every-day life."

For remember, you cannot find reality, truth, life, a universe, by going forever outside of self nor by gazing into some imaginary sky. So far as you are concerned, none of these things exist save as each is given existence within your selfhood. The Universe passes solemnly through every growing soul from the region of the ungrasped and below the ordinary consciousness. No knowledge comes from upper airs-though half the reality of any knowledge lies there because every individual centers Infinite Existence but all emerges from the under realm of the unknown in consciousness. No pos session is yours until it has swept up from the lower inner fields of life.

Stand, therefore, for the objective life, of course, but always as well for the inner existence which allies you with all worlds. If, taking the outer life as it comes, you will for long affirm that your deeper self is also in relation with all right things and growing because of that relation, you will in this way realize the remarkable quotation from Mill. Otherwise, it is nothing better than commonplace school instruction.

THE KING.

Silent the great audience-room. Yet stirs
In all the place a premonition vague
Of imminent events. A breath proclaims
Through swaying curtains Majesty's approach.
Guards stand alert. Low murmuring sounds arise
Of retinues attendant. Then, the pause
Of homage ... and the Sovereign enters in.

The chamber of the kingly life is nought
Save place expectant till the Lord of all,
Assumptive ever of his rightful throne
Though absent for siesta or the chase,
Stride in and speak his omnipresent power.
'Tis vacancy whose meaning sole is this:
His coming to await, his presence guard.
And thus, forsooth, all eminent domain,
From chamber to frontier, whose value lies
In his great self. As king is, so the land!

As Will is, so the man! The vacant mind,
Eventless years, breath signifying nought,
Senses as idle as the summer clouds,
Attendants loosed and chattering — all breed
Dread anarchy, or worse, a bankrupt soul.
Lo, if the Will fails, kingdoms baubles are!
But if he reigns, the desert's boundless waste
Bursts into splendor and proclaims his power!

As Will is, so the man! The brain alert,
The household true, the message bearers swift,
The five great overlords leal servants, friends,
The five good gates co-ordinate and sure,
A song of action in the sun-charged air,
And those three ministers of glorious life-
Faith tireless, unboisterous Confidence,

And Courage, soft of speech, whose word is hope,
Beside the royal Presence alway. Thus
The realm be when his Majesty, the Will,
Rules, potent. Thus comes Power invisible
From Heaven to company the Sovereign,
To bless the kingdom of the human soul,
To make its Lord imperial, throned on law:
One to outlook the worlds, and conquer them!

PART II.-THE WILL AND SENSE-CULTURE.