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the h11sine11s wm·lver, that this i11 not absolutely
trne: an•l y .. t. if neces~ry, a person should sacrifil'e
either one or the other,-if to uphold one's honor means a ll&C·
rifice of one's bn11ineu, lhPn let the hu11ine11s go. If circum.
stanceR and oon surely will the evilR within the indiviclual outgrow thH ;?noel,
em·er it, and choke it out.
Our experience has bronght 1111 into a."sociation with thcllle
wl10 have livf'd the regenerat.A life until they have reached comparatively
high attainments in it, but who, along with the othea•
principlflfl and faculties, have allowed certain weeds of evil to
spring up within them, whilings, tlwrft iA nothin~
more certain tbitn that. although the aHpirant may climb high
in lines of attainment and he able to t.f'ach and talk like a AAge,
it is only a mattn of time when there wiJI lie a tera-ible fall, and
all the good that he ha11 acqnir~l will be ovtirpowered 1tntl
t.aken po&ees11ion of by the evil.
Before one make11 ttM of methods of d(>Vf!lopmf'nt in the way
of Mnl m1lt11re or in magic-in fact, in any departmeut of
mental develop1uent, except the mere memorizing connectetl with
the ordinary scholastic pursuits-he shonltl and mu~t have, if
be would accomplish good resultR, a well.defined object to ~
attained. Such au object having been set before the individual,
he mn11t use his judgment and the closest discrimination in &e·
lt'!Cting from even the prei;ent coul'se of instructions that which
will lead toward, or assist in the accomplishment of his object.
The habit, so general among students, of 11eizing and apprt,.
priating every m«>thod that seems to be good and practical:
ahonld be most strenuously avoided. The world is EuJl of good
thought and practical iden11: no one mind is able to incorporate
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