THERE are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and of leaving it behind them everywhere they go.- Faber. “You Can Do It if You Believe You Can!” Intolerance is a form of ignorance which must be mastered before any form of enduring success may be attained It dethrones reason and substitutes mob psychology in its place Intolerance is the chief disintegrating force in the organized religions of the world, where it plays havoc with the greatest power for good there is on this earth; by breaking up that power into small sects and denominations which spend as much effort opposing each other as they do in destroying the evils of the world. Hearts, like doors, can ope with ease, To very, very little keys; And don’t forget that they are these: “I thank you, sir,” and “If you please.” Factors which constitute the chief controlling forces of civilization. One is physical heredity and the other is social heredity The teachers and professors were forced to implant the ideal of “kultur” in the minds of the students, and out of this teaching, in a single generation, grew the capacity for sacrifice of the individual for the interest of the nation which surprised the modern world. IT takes but a second to administer a rebuke, but it may take a life-time for the one who has been rebuked to forget it. The first question we ask about a new acquaintance is not, “Who are you?” but, “What have you?” And the next question we ask is, “How can we get that which you have?”War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men, and the smoldering embers of this desire are fanned into a flame through the grouping of these individuals who place the interests of the group above those of other groups UNFORTUNATE, in-deed, is the man who becomes so used to evil that it no longer appears to be horrible “Thou shalt not kill!” Greatly begin! though thou have time, But for a line, be that sublime – Not failure, but low aim is crime. it is woman’s nature to subordinate the interests of the present to those of the future. It is woman’s nature to implant, in the mind of the young, ideals that will accrue to the benefit of generations yet unborn, while man is motivated generally by expediency of the present. SINGLENESS of pur-pose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim. -John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Under the stress of war, that great mass of humanity was reduced to a common level where they fought shoulder to shoulder, side by side, without asking any questions as to each other’s racial tendencies or religious beliefs. We learned from the world war that we cannot destroy a part without weakening the whole; that when one nation or group of people is reduced to poverty and want, the remainder of the world suffers, also. Stated conversely, we learned from the world war that co-operation and tolerance are the very foundation of enduring success Books and lessons, in themselves, are of but little value; their real value, if any, lies not in their printed pages, but in the possible action which they may arouse in the reader. For Any learning > value to you will depend entirely upon the extent to which it stimulates you to think and to act as you would not have done without its influence The chief object of course is to educate, more than it is to inform – meaning by the word “educate” to educe, to draw out! to cause you to use the power that lies sleeping within you, awaiting the awakening hand of some appropriate stimulus to arouse you to action.!! IF a man has built a sound character it makes but little diff-erence what people say about him, because he will win in the end. – Napoleon Hill, Sr.
TOLERANCE! When the dawn of Intelligence shall have spread its wings over the eastern horizon of progress, and Ignorance and Superstition shall have left their last footprints on the sands of Time, it will be recorded in the book of man’s crimes and mistakes that his most grievous sin was that of Intolerance! The bitterest Intolerance grows out of racial and religious differences of opinion, as the result of early childhood training. How long, O Master of Human Destinies, until we poor mortals will understand the folly of trying to destroy one another because of dogmas and creeds and other superficial matters over which we do not agree? Our allotted time on this earth is but a fleeting moment, at most! Like a candle, we are lighted, shine for a moment and flicker out! Why can we not so live during this short earthly sojourn that when the Great Caravan called Death draws up and announces this visit about finished we will be ready to fold our tents, and, like the Arabs of the Desert, silently follow the Caravan out into the Darkness of the Unknown without fear and trembling? I am hoping that I will find no Jews or Gentiles, Catholics or Protestants, Germans or Englishmen, Frenchmen or Russians, Blacks or Whites, Reds or Yellows, when I shall have crossed the Bar to the Other Side. I am hoping I will find there only human Souls, Brothers and Sisters all, unmarked by race, creed or color, far I shall want to be done with Intolerance so I may lie down and rest an æon or two, undisturbed by the strife, ignorance, superstition and petty mis-understandings which mark with chaos and grief this earthly existence.
