The Science of Being Great

ANY PERSON MAY BECOME GREAT. HERE 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 what- soever 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 7 THE SCIENCE OF the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.

We do not know where the boundary of the mental pow- ers 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 man’s 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. He alone has this power, and he has it to an appar- ently unlimited extent. The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth.

Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; man can grow as he will. Trees and plants can only develop cer- tain possibilities and characteristics; man can develop any power which is or has been shown by any person, 8 BEING GREAT. anywhere.