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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 -

labor; and hence many people shrink from it. God has so formed us that we are continuously impelled to thought; we must either think or engage in some activity to escape thought. The headlong, continuous chase for pleasure in which most people spend all their leisure time is only an effort to escape thought. If they are alone, or if they have nothing amusing to take their attention, as a novel to read or a show to see, they must think; and to escape from thinking they resort to novels, shows. and all the endless devices of the purveyors of amusement. Most people spend the greater part of their leisure time running away from thought, hence they are where they are. We never move forward until we begin to think.

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues. We have at the present time few really great figures in the political life of our country; our politicians are a petty lot. There is no Lincoln, no Webster, no Clay, Calhoun, or Jackson.

Why? Because our present statesmen deal only with sordid and petty issues --- questions of dollars and cents, of expediency and party success, of material prosperity without regard to ethical right. Thinking along these lines does not call forth great souls. The statesmen of

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