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a book put it away. Proper development gives one at all times, the power to concentrate in any chosen line and at the same time keep self-control.

Understand me, it is not that condition where we call a person cold and unsocial. That is not concentration, but constraint, repression, and is equally dangerous to health. Self-possession is very different from self-repression. This latter is common to find and is the result of a fashionable education and of social etiquette. Because of repression doctors and undertakers are reaping a rich harvest. Except ye become as little children! is the true thought of concentration. The only natural concentration is under desire; is in the line we love. The only proper way to concentrate is at will, and not because we have to. Let there be no "Have to!" in your life, would you be self-centered and self-directed. A friend often replies when asked why he does not do a certain thing, --- "I don't have to!" An industrial and social condition that compels a man to do that which he does not love, and which civilization has not taught him to love, which has not inspired him with an ideal that lifts him above the thought of necessity or starvation; is not entitled to the name of civilization. It needs Edward Carpenter's book used upon it as a surgeon. He entitled his book "Civilization, its Cause and Cure! Present civilization needs to be cured. The prophet's cry is applicable to the present condition. "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me!"

Heartlessness must be the case where necessity rules. Never a child loved its parent because it was driven to. No husband ever loved his wife because she demanded,