hence that success in marked degree is only for those who are born with great brain-power. But the foregoing discussions have led us to take a different view, and have brought us in sight of a number of principles which are of great consequence in the formation and strengthening of character. What we so often call character, that is, "the innate power" which because transmitted we take to be immutable, is not by any means single. Nor is it necessarily a fixed quantity. It would be more correct to say that we start life with an assemblage of traits and tendencies which we divide into two groups after a time, those that are undesirable, with which we refuse to identify the self, and those that we will to make more truly our own. We are apt to forget that it is not what is given us but what we work for that is of value. So-called character is regarded by the man who truly knows himself as the resistance offered by his lower nature or disposition, of value chiefly because it calls him forth in creative self-development. A man's disposition may indeed be desirable, but it becomes permanently identified with himself only in case he wills to make it so. The great writer who declared that he had been four different persons in the course of his long life, tacitly confessed that there had also been a fifth, namely, the one that knew and accepted parts of these in favour of the deeper selfhood which lived on.