The Science of Being Great

Any Person May Become Great There is a Principle of Power in every person. By the intelligent use and direction of this principle man can develop his own mental faculties. Man has an inherent power by which he may grow in whatsoever direction he pleases and there does not appear to be any limit to the possibilities of his growth. No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater. The possibility is in the Original Substance from which man is made. Genius is Omniscience flowing into man. Genius is more than talent. Talent may merely be one faculty developed out of proportion to other faculties but genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve of power that is without limit. We do not know where the boundary of the mental powers of man is; we do not even know that there is a boundary. The power of conscious growth is not given to the lower animals; it is mans alone and may be developed and increased by him. The lower animals can to a great extent be trained and developed by man; but man can train and develop himself.