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The Science of Being Great

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Any Person May Become Great - Heredity & Opportunity - The Source of Power - The Mind of God - Preparation - Social Point of View - Individual Point of View - Consecration - Identification - Idealization - Realization - Hurry & Habit - Thought - Action at Home - Action Abroad - Some Further Explanations - More About Thought - Jesus' Idea of Greatness - A View of Evolution - Serving God - A Mental Exercise - Summary of the Science of Being Great - About The Author - Contents -

who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man. He will instantly become marked as a personality of power in any community and men will delight to do him honor.

Wisdom is dependent upon knowledge. Where there is complete ignorance there can he no wisdom, no knowledge of the right thing to do. Man's knowledge is comparatively limited and so his wisdom must be small, unless he can connect his mind with a knowledge greater than his own and draw front it, by inspiration, the wisdom that his own limitations deny him. This he can do; this is what the really great men and women have done. Man's knowledge is limited and uncertain; therefore he caning have wisdom in himself.

Only God knows all truth: therefore only God can have real wisdom or know the right thing to do at all times, and man can receive wisdom from God. I proceed to give an illustration: Abraham Lincoln had limited education; but he had the power to perceive truth. In Lincoln we see pre-eminently apparent the fact that real wisdom consists in knowing the right thing to do

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