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  ...TO THE FRONT," ETC.
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF ABNER BAYLEY
_ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS_
New York: THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS
1901 BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY.
AN IRON WILL.

CHAPTER I.
TRAINING THE WILL.
"The education of the will is the object of our existence," says Emerson.
Nor is this putting it too strongly, if we take into account the human will in its relations to the divine. This accords with the saying of J. Stuart Mill, that " A character is a completely fashioned will.   "
In respect to mere mundane relations, the development and discipline of one's will-power is of supreme moment in relation to success in life. No man can ever estimate the power of will. It is a part of the divine nature, all of a piece with the power of creation. We speak of God's fiat "_Fiat lux_, Let light be." Man has his fiat. The achievements of history have been the choices, the determinations, the creations, of the human will. It was the will, quiet or pugnacious, gentle or...   Novalis

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