insuperable odds or by drawing upon our reserves when the supply does not warrant the effort.

When we have faced completely around the horizon, we may stand erect once for all. We begin as children, self-assertive in high degree, but presently find wise ways to the ends which children cannot attain. Flattened to earth by sheer failures, we at length find it far from disappointing that we cannot rouse the will and move forth to victory in just our way. Experience gradually teaches us that all accomplishment is co-operative, involving the observance of essential conditions. But in the economy of nature it suffices that we possess power at the centre. To have the power to attend is enough to make one obstinate for a life- time, to insure optimism, or success, provided it be supported by a character that expresses itself in this direction. Narrowed to the limit, and driven into the secret recesses of its subjective stronghold, the will is still king.

It would be deadening to be thinking all the while of the theological truth that there is only one real power. Having accepted the truth in humble submissiveness, we ordinarily act as though we could accomplish anything in line with our desires. I must believe in myself to become even what the most sternly authoritative God would have me become. I am potentially a master, and hence I regard as means to my end whatever I encounter