One must learn from experience when to move with the incoming tide, when it is best to wait, or be aggressive. A part of every successful life consists in watching the trend of events to see when to join in. The more wisely observant and reflective the more likely we are to spare ourselves the enormous expenditures of energy of those who struggle against the tide, the more frequently we may discover favourable occasions. Thus, taking our clues from nature's ebbings and flowings, we may let our heads save our heels in many a new way, steadily exercising finer powers of interior control. We may already have learned to conserve our forces by eating pure and simple food, making the appropriate changes in diet at wise junctures, but now we may be able to advance by eating more moderately or by depending on a smaller quantity. Thus there may be gradual evolution through the acquisition of wise habits, while these in turn make it possible to give one's consciousness more fully to matters that require active thought.

We hardly need to remind ourselves that energy is saved in a well-ordered household or office, where closets, desks, and shelves are in order, and each person knows precisely where the utensils are to be found which pertain to his organic service. It is always possible to introduce improvements even where an admirable system prevails, especially since the system itself may in time become a