Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...carried forward by some great invincible champion. Trust yourself to that champion. That is all. You will sometimes fail, of course, for that is natural; but laugh at such failures. Do not, above all things, worry over them. They come to test you for your strength, merely, and by exercise with them, however awkwardly, you will produce in yourself stronger spiritual muscles. Seeker.--What! If I make a mistake, shouldn't I feel sorry? Doctor.--Do you think it ever does the case any good to feel sorry over it? Seeker.--Maybe not. But I don't feel that way for my good, nor because I want to, but because I've got to! Doctor.--You have felt that way heretofore, but you will not now. What do you suppose the reason is that we feel, or can feel, sorrow for anything? Seeker.--That gets me--unless it's because we were made that way--the old excuse. Doctor.--I am going to tell you a simple method by which you may, through analogy, get at reasons behind things. It is this: When any question comes up to you to be answered, regard yourself as a boy at school and look upon that question as a problem in your school arithmetic. You will be delighted, often, to find how easy the solution of your difficulty will be to you then. Seeker.--Give me a case. Doctor.--Take the one you mention--why we feel sorry for anything. Regard it as a problem in your school book. I fancy you failed sometimes in arithmetic when you were going to school, didn't you? 149 Seeker.--(With conviction.) Full many a time and oft conspicuously. Doctor.--Did you feel sorry then? Seeker.--Sorry? Rather. Doctor.--We need not be cheaply literal. There are various grades of sorrow, and we must take them all as sorrow. Why did you feel sorry when you missed? Seeker.--For several reasons. It...
