In every well-ordered life there is a saving grace of some sort.

I once sat near a speaker who was addressing an open-air gathering in the summer-time, and I noticed that during forty-five minutes he did not once change the position of his feet, did not raise his arms to gesticulate, and did not raise his voice. As one would expect, this speaker chose his words with great care, permitted no sentence to escape from his lips that was not well ordered, in entire keeping with his thought. One saw that here was a man of wide information, who knew a fact from a theory, and who used his powers to capital advantage. Now we might not always prefer so deliberate and precise a speaker, so accustomed are we to impassioned utterance, but we would like to see every speaker thus able to think and speak deliberately.

If able to command sufficient repose to analyse a subject carefully, discerning its parts, arranging them in order, singling out essential points and formulating laws, you have already made several attainments in this direction. Such control implies the ability to adopt a point of view and follow it logically to its conclusions, and this implies command of the brain. It also involves the mechanism that secures external order and system, insures confidence, and enables one to strike out and reach a goal. But this efficiency is the fruition