the powers that make for strength of character. But there may be as much tenacity, on occasion as great obstinacy, as the strong-willed person shows. For some people are temperamentally courageous, abounding in resistances, while others gradually acquire resistance, and courage. In the end the so-called weak man may be as strong as his opponent. Indeed, he may be more closely coordinated, since his gradual emergence into freedom through the discovery of a favouring line of action gives him sure command of his resources. Hence he acquires strength to meet harder situations.

Character in brief is constancy in the pursuit of a purpose, and involves self-reliance, fidelity, definiteness, self -consistency as a progressive ideal, obedience in the sense of acceptance of the law of the universe. It also implies a measure of independence, originality, and initiative. In marked cases it goes with profound insight, the power to think out the laws of things, to think for the age in which one lives.

No doubt every person of pronounced character is in a sense a severe critic. Yet there is a vast difference between the demand for perfection and the idealism that sees the wisdom of things in the making. Genuine large-mindedness goes with the acceptance of life and of people. Hence it is not so literal, has room for the imagination, as well