{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4708", "width": "3218", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "V ~V N G c 0 A\\nG", "height": "4436", "width": "2832", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "H, 8 b\\n\u00c2\u00ab.0*\\nsV 1\\nSt? ^-/Om^\\n\u00c2\u00ab5\\nO\\nF; -a o V*\\nFO, o \u00c2\u00a3T\\nv\\n,0", "height": "4476", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4460", "width": "2928", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "THE)\\nED U C/| T/q\\nOR THE y\\nONE HUNDRED\\nPOINTS 91 CHARACTER\\nOTHERWISE CALLED THE\\nSCHOOL 91 CHARACTER\\nCONSTRUCTED BY\\nEDMUND SHAFTESBURY,\\nISSUED BY THE\\nRALSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY,\\nWashington, D. C.", "height": "4464", "width": "2908", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "80762\\nLibrary of Conqre\u00c2\u00aba\\nTwo Cones Receweo\\nNOV 26 1900\\nCopyright entry\\nSEC0N0 COPY\\nOelivered to\\nORDER DIVISION\\nNOV 27 1900\\nCopyrighted, 1900,\\nby the\\nRALSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY.\\nAll rights reserved.", "height": "4460", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "DEDICATED\\nTo that most estimable and most to be desired\\nof all persons:\\nQUI NE CHANGE PAS,\\nAfter entering the White Citadel.", "height": "4460", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Thus would I double my life s fading space;\\nror he that runs it well, twice runs his race.\\nAnd in this true delight,\\nThese unbought sports, this happy state,\\nI would not fear, nor wish, my fate,\\nBut boldly say each night,\\nTo-morrow let my sun his beams display,\\nOr in the clouds hide them; I have lived to-day/", "height": "4456", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Citadel of Character.\\nQ) HAEACTEE is what a man is, not what he is reputed to be.\\nV Eeputation is not always based upon character, but\\nmore often npon a concealment of character. The\\nusual inquiries concerning this attribute are intended to ascer-\\ntain if the person in question is honest as far as lying and steal-\\ning are concerned, or is morally strong in matters of tempta-\\ntion. These are but two points only in the development of char-\\nacter and form but two per cent, of the whole scope.\\nLooking for a broader understanding of what is meant we\\nfind quality after quality rising before us in a procession of\\nessential traits. The person who does not lie, who does not steal,\\nwho keeps all the commandments, may be a very disagreeable\\nindividual. He may be mean in scores of ways, weak in scores of\\nways, and a very undesirable friend or companion. T\\\\ T e know\\nof men who are morally perfect, as far as earth is concerned, yet\\nwho are shriveled in all other departments of their being. We\\nknow women who are probably chaste, but are never chased; who\\nare truthful, yet unable to hold the contents of their knowledge;\\nwho would rather die than steal, and yet who are as weak in pur-\\npose as a jelly-fish is weak in body.\\nThis may lead you to believe that purpose is character. It\\nis no more so than a window is a house. Were you to seek a\\ncorrect definition, there would be some difficulty in making it\\naccurate, and more in making it complete. A man marries a\\nwoman for her beauty, her sweet and gentle ways, possibly her\\nwinning ways; but, in a year or so, his love has waned because a\\ntemple cannot rest upon air. It is a common remark that love\\nmust be founded upon respect; that this latter quality must pre-\\ncede the permanent establishment of the former; and that which\\ncommands respect must be character. This is probably true.\\nBut there is no one thing that commands respect. The hero who,\\nfor love of the water, leaped into a yard-deep pond and saved a\\nmillionaire s daughter from a liquid grave, won the profoundest\\ntemporary respect of the maiden, accepted her hand and incident-\\n(5)", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "6\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nally a check from her father. That was what the world would\\ncall respect; an admiration for the heroic or sportive qualities\\nof the young man. But it had no other hasis. A house stand-\\ning on one leg may be suitable for birds, but not for human lovers.\\nWhen they were married, the wife found nothing to further ad-\\nmire in the hero of the shallow pond. Even his fondness for\\nwater was confined to outdoor bathing in open weather.\\nThen would arise the question of cleanliness as a strong trait\\nof character, likely to arouse respect. It has been said that this\\nquality is next to godliness; but there are other things that are\\nnext to godliness also; like radii of a great center; and it is\\nsurely true that, while uncleanly people are extremely obnoxious,\\nsome of the most cleanly are vixenish, waspish, narrow and re-\\npulsive in other traits. We make these remarks to show that\\ncharacter is not a quality, not a trait, not an attribute; but a full\\nrounded structure composed of many essential parts, and designed\\nto give to mind, body and soul a fit dwelling-place on earth, with\\nan absolute assurance that such a life must open a most glorious\\nexistence hereafter.\\nSo numerous are the parts that make the stronghold that\\nthe prospect widens as we give it study. There is no other line\\nof development that can be compared with it. There is more\\nof real self to be seen, more of life to be conned, more of value\\nto be attained, more of advantage to be gained in this pursuit\\nthan in any other. Health has been the theme of our earlier\\nbooks, and health is everything, in the sense that a solid founda-\\ntion is all-important in the erection of a great castle; but who\\ncares for the foundation without the structure? Who wishes for\\nnothing but health, as a horse might have? Health without\\nmental ascendency is an unbuilt wall. Mind without health is a\\nfragile garret. Perfect health and greatness of mind, without\\ncharacter, is like a roof on a foundation with no place to dwell.\\nThere is no attainment so complete as this. It requires not\\none, but every part of the structure. Eoofless it would be lack-\\ning in part of itself. Founded upon sand it would be monstrously\\ndeficient. Character compels health of body, mental attainment,\\nmoral purity, and much else beside. For this reason we do not\\nhesitate to declare it the most important study in all the broad\\nscope of human existence. It is all inclusive; and is the only\\neducation that can so be termed.", "height": "4464", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 7\\nSad dreams as when the Spirit of our Youth\\nReturns in sleep, sparkling with all the truth\\nRnd innocence once ours, and leads us hack,\\nIn mournful mockery, o er the shining track\\nOf our young life, and points out every ray\\nOf hope and peace we ve lost upon the way.\\nThomas Moore.\\nORIGIN Or THE SCHOOL.\\nMany years ago, when the author was too young to realize\\nthe meaning of training like this, he yearned for some standard\\nto live by, for the development of a strong character. The moral\\nand religions systems in vogne were fully sufficient to meet all\\nthe requirements of those who were inclined toward them, but\\nthey failed to build secular character. The fact was and is that\\nthe vast majority of moral and religious people are not wholly\\ndeveloped. They are illustrations of the great truth that the\\nattempt to build one side alone of character results in erratic\\ngrowth. Cranks, bigots, enthusiasts may possess good traits; but\\nthey handicap the cause they support. Religious and moral codes\\nfail to command the respect of many people, because they do not\\nfurnish a secular standard to live by capable of elevating and\\nbroadening that nature which is implanted in all human beings.\\nDisappointment has dropped like a dead weight into the heart\\nof many a young man and woman who sought for true guidance,\\nand found it not. It is not wise to say anything against religion,\\nand the author would gladly say everything for it; but the truth\\nremains that we are superstitiously drawn to it in times of fear\\nand distress; and drift from it in periods of success.^", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nThe Creator does not do for us that which we can do for our-\\nselves. The great secular boons for mankind are found by man s\\nefforts. The One Hundred Points of Character are not given\\nas untried ideas to the world. They exist, and have existed from\\ntime immemorial; but they must be sought after and utilized by\\nman, as all forms of education have been. Lightning, and many\\nother great elemental powers, have always been ready for use,\\nbut the inquiring mind of man had to seek them, adopt them and\\napply them. If religion is given us from God, we could not ex-\\npect more than God has given. If we are giants in our control\\nof the forces of nature, should we be infants in moral matters,\\nand reach out after nothing, receiving food in semi-digested pap,\\nlike weaklings? Man must educate himself and must draw the\\nforces of education from the world around him.\\nA standard to live by is necessary. It might be made a hand-\\ncompanion of religion; in which case, instead of seeing so many\\nhalf -rilled churches in the world we would behold them crowded \\\\JL\\nto the doors.\\nThe surfeit of success, or the debasement of crime, never\\ncan reach that extreme where the yearning for true character is\\nentirely dead. Moral paralysis is never complete.\\nThe heart is always striving after something. The soul s\\nlonging for a happiness greater than this life affords has prompted\\nthe moral codes and beliefs of every race on the globe from the\\nbeginning of time down to the present day. It is in man to stay.\\nThe School of Character seeks first of all to touch that well-\\nspring. This is not done by appealing to man s moral nature;\\nfor failure would result. To soothe a bruised child we should not\\nlift him by his wounds. The slightest finger-touch on the moral\\nside of most men would be painful.\\nThe first step is to gain the confidence of the pupil, by ap-\\npealing to his common sense, his practical needs; and proving to\\nhim that to-day may be made happier than yesterday, and to-\\nmorrow happier than to-day.\\nSo character is formed. The impulse, once started, soon\\nacquires momentum, and presently one more name is added to the\\nlist of the world s true men and women.", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n3\\nlam: how little more I hnow\\nWhence came I Whither do I go\\nn centered self, which feels and is\\n7\\\\ cry between the silences\\nft shadow-birth of clouds at strife\\nWith sunshine on the hills of life\\nft shaft from Nature s quiver cast\\nInto the ruture from the Past;\\nBetween the cradle and the shroud,\\nft meteor s flight from cloud to cloud.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094John Green leaf Whit tier.\\nHOW PUPILS ARE TRAINED IN THIS SCHOOL.\\nThe work is done entirely by the pupil. The standard to\\nlive by is furnished from the requirements of mankind. The\\nOne Hundred Points of Character have not been invented, but are\\ncollected from the experiences of the world at large.\\nThe stimulus to succeed must be self-sustaining, and not fed\\nfrom without. It must be inherent and not artificial. In this\\nrespect rests the chief value of the present course of training.\\nThe author of this method has created nothing. His re-\\nproduction upon paper of Nature s own process is original only\\nas far as authorship is concerned; the true merit lies with Him\\nwho made humanity what it is, and gave man the means of the\\nhighest possible development.\\nDefinition.\\nCharacter is a citadel of strength. It has four walls, cor-\\nresponding to the four sides of human nature. These walls are", "height": "4476", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nbuilt of material from the workshops, where the pupil first enters.\\nThis material is carried from place to place along the highway,\\nand is thoroughly tested as to quality, strength and durability.\\nAs it is being transported it is added to and worked upon, until,\\nwhen finished, it fits its proper place in the citadel, there to\\nremain for all time.\\nWork is commenced upon all four walls at once. When\\ncompleted they are impregnable; and the person who dwells\\nwithin them is able to cope with the world in its sunshine and\\nshadow; and is master of himself and of circumstances.\\nThe training is intensely interesting as soon as the appren-\\nticeship in the workshops is completed. No course of study can\\nbe said to be equally profitable; for it is not often, if ever, that\\nwe are enabled to take a true measure of ourselves, of our capabil-\\nities and deficiencies.\\nTo seek to teach pupils by giving advice would be waste of\\n-effort. Advice was never of less value than at the present day.\\nBooks and people are full of it; but who cares for it? Advice in\\nthe nineteenth century is as valuable as ice in Greenland. But\\nencouragement is necessary.\\nSelf-effort is the first great principle of growth. With this\\nsimple truth constantly before us, and acted upon, the develop-\\nment of character is surprisingly rapid; without it, we drift toward\\nnothingness.\\nThe first steps are so readily taken that the pupil feels a\\npleasure in their ease; goes to work; becomes interested; finds his\\nself -pride awakened; ambition is aroused; he proceeds into the\\ndifficult training with a zest; and at length is hoplessly entangled\\nin the toils of a glorious resolve to develop true character.\\nThus the weaker individuals are made strong men and\\nwomen, and the strong men and women become splendid speci-\\nmens of the grandest race that ever lived.\\nThe simplicity of the early steps should not be disregarded;\\nnor should pupils look lightly upon things that seem so little.\\nThere is a purpose in the ease with which the earlier work may\\nbe performed. Great men value simple things. A pumpkin is\\nlarger than an acorn, but the acorn contains the seed of the giant\\noak. Do not despise the acorn. The perfection of small things\\nmakes greatness possible.", "height": "4468", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n11\\nBuild thee more stately mansions, O my soul,\\nAs the swiff seasons roll\\nLeave thy low vaulted past!\\nLet each new temple, nobler than the last,\\nShut thee from heaven, with a dome more vast,\\nTill thou at length are free,\\nLeaving thine outgrown shell Dy life s unresting sea.\\nOliver Wendell Holmes.\\nTHE EOUR ROADS TO CHARACTER.\\nThe life of each man and woman is his or her world. From\\nthe four quarters of this human world spring four roads, each\\nleading to the summit, on which the citadel is to be built. The\\nname of this citadel is Chaeactek.\\nAt the beginning of each road a workshop, already prepared,\\nmay be found. There are four workshops, one in each quarter of\\nthe world. Four journeys are commenced at one and the same\\ntime. To travel from four remote corners of the world to one\\nfocal point would ordinarily be impossible; but human nature is\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0diverse, and character is distinctly four-sided. A house cannot\\nbe built of one wall, nor do good mechanics erect one side at\\na time. The perfect structure rises equally in all its parts.\\nNo perfect simile can present the beauty of our growth.\\nThe workshops are numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4.\\nThe four roads are likewise numbered, and they lead to the\\niour walls of the citadel, which receive their numbers corre-\\nspondingly.\\nThe pupil passes through three\\nHistories:\\n1 Apprenticeship.\\n2. Journeying.\\n3. Eesidence.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nTo accomplish these Histories it is necessary to pass through\\nFive Phases of Progress:\\n1. In the Workshop.\\n2. Out in the World.\\n3. Down in the Depths.\\n4. Up on the Heights.\\n5. In the Citadel.\\nThe History of the Apprenticeship is made In the Work-\\nshop.\\nThe History of the Journeying is made Out in the World/*\\nDown in the Depths and Up on the Heights.\\nThe History of the Eesidence is made In the Citadel,\\nwhich continues forever.\\nAll pupils who enter the Citadel are entitled to the Jewel\\nEmblem, a solid gold charm set with a genuine diamond, and sur-\\nrounded by oak leaves to show strength of character.\\nTHE STAGES OE PROGRESS.\\nThere are one hundred stages to be made. These mark the\\nprogress of the pupil; and each stage furnishes material for a\\nlesson.\\nTwenty-five stages are made on each road.\\nNine of these twenty-five are accomplished In the Work-\\nshop.\\nSeven are accomplished Out in the World.\\nFive are accomplished Down in the Depths.\\nThree are accomplished Up on the Heights.\\n*One at the outside of the Citadel.\\nBy adding the stages of the Four Eoads together it will be\\nseen that there are\\nThirty-six In the Worshop.\\nTwenty-eight Out in the World.\\nTwenty Down in the Depths.\\nTwelve Up on the Heights, and\\nFour At the Citadel.\\nAs the pupil progresses and the work becomes harder the-\\nstages become less, eight being dropped at each phase.", "height": "4472", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n13\\nThe first sound in the song of hope\\nScarce more than silence is, and yet, a sound.\\nHands of invisible spirits touch the strings\\nOf that mysterious instrument, the soul,\\nAnd play the prelude to our fate.\\nTO THE BEGINNER.\\nYon do not know yourself.\\nPeople about you have studied you more than you imagine.\\nThey can tell you some things about yourself that are undoubt-\\nedly true, which you would not believe. There are phases in\\nyour character which, if you had some kind friend to explain\\nthem to you, would help you materially in the battle of life. You\\nare walled in by barricades over which you cannot see. Are you\\nwilling to break through them?\\nHe who, on the advent of a new hope, shuddering at the\\npast, makes pledge to his own soul of a new and better life,\\nwith purpose strong enough to command its fulfillment, brings\\na smile to the face of the recording angel and places himself\\nunder the sheltering wing of the almighty.\\nIn a few lessons it will dawn upon you that Decision is one\\nof the Points of Character. You must apply this point here and\\nnow. The course of training is unique and beautiful, if you pur-\\nsue it as a Eeading Pupil. It is grand, even to the limit of sub-\\nlimit, if you pursue it as a Eecord Pupil. You cannot become\\nthe latter until all the lessons are owned exclusively by you and\\nin your sole possession. As soon as you certify to this, you may\\nmake the decision as to what course you will pursue.\\nUntil then you will be classified as a Eeading Pupil.", "height": "4480", "width": "2908", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nTO THE RECORD PUPIL\\nUpon looking the lessons through, and reading the pledges,,\\nif yon desire to enter npon the great work before you, notice\\nshould be sent to the ally whom you- may select as prescribed\\nlater on. This being done, your name should be enrolled upon\\nyour books, and a careful record of your progress kept from the\\ntime you enter the Workshops as an Apprentice until you reach\\nthe Heights and apply for admission at the Citadel. The regular\\nreports which you are to send will be explained to you from time\\nto time as the lessons proceed. Full directions will thus be ob-\\ntained before the end is reached.\\nAll your letters to your ally should be strictly private, and\\nthe record of your progress, with its successes and temporary\\nfailures (if any), will be known only to such ally.\\nGive unto me, made lowly wise,\\nThe spirit of self-sacrifice;\\nThe confidence of reason give;\\nAnd in the light of Truth thy\\nBondman let me live.\\nWilliam Wordsworth\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1 Ode to Duty.\\nTHE GREAT PLEDGE.\\nYou are about to enter upon a new existence. The wheat\\nfrom your past life is to be saved and the chalf burned. If the\\nfuture means anything to you this should be made the turning\\npoint of your life. Let the dead past bury its dead. Do not\\nmourn over its mistakes, nor grieve at its failures. They are", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "OXE HUNDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n15\\nbeyond your reach. Commence life anew this day. In so far as\\nyon have laid the foundations of charcter in the past, yon will\\nfind your future progress less difficult. But at all events com-\\nmence anew. Landing, as yon are, in a new country, destroy the\\nship that brought you here, that return may be impossible.\\nBefore signing the pledge, retire to some place where you\\nmay be alone with your thoughts. In the solemnity of that re-\\ntirement think of life and its meaning to you. Ask yourself the\\nquestion: Am I in earnest? Do not come out of this self-study\\nuntil you can answer Yes clearly and firmly. If you fail to do\\nso, seek another opportunity for a similar seclusion and once more\\ncommune with yourself. When the answer e Yes comes from\\nyour heart, supported by your will, you must then mentally re-\\nsolve to sign the pledge in this chapter. But, lest you yet waver,\\nyou should wait until the next day before actually subscribing\\nyour name. The line is then drawn between your past and the\\nfuture. From the moment your pen is lifted from the page\\nwhereon you have recorded the noblest purpose of your life, you\\nand this book are to be close friends. Its leaves and records are\\nfor your eyes only. Every page shall bear some word or thought\\nwhose sacred import shall represent to you alone the yearning\\nof your soul. The frequent recording of your accomplishments,\\nyour hopes and longings, the quiet inner communion of your\\nheart with the gTeat facts which are drawn from the experience\\nof daily life, bring out your character with the stamp of serious,\\nearnest purpose upon it.\\nIf you are religionless make this your religion, for even\\nsavages have had some standard to live by.\\nIf you are not religionless make this a complement to that\\nhigher and grander life which you seek the true character of\\nthe soul.\\nThe necessity for signing a pledge is apparent.\\nSelf-effort is the great lack of human nature; and yet is the\\nmost essential element in character. There are millions of poor\\npeople in America; and it may be stated as a general (though not\\nuniversal) rule that where self -effort is lacking poverty begins.\\nThis is but one of the results attending this deficiency. Char-\\nacter often fails or wins on the same line.\\nWhen we talk with those about us who show by every word\\nand act the possession of this palpable fault; and when we see", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16\\nTHE XEW EDUCATION\\nthe lives of failure that follow in its wake we are surprised that\\non so slight a thing hinges the smallness of the lives of the masses\\nof mankind. The signing of a Pledge binds people to themselves.\\nIt becomes a question of Honor. There is a class of men who\\nare very weak; to whom an obligation, however sacred, is never\\nbinding; who would sell their souls, their own honor, and that\\nof their wives and daughters for a mere dime, with no thought or\\ncare of the consequences. On the other hand, there are noble\\ntypes of men whose slightest word is as good as a bond, whose oral\\npromise for a million would be honored if it took the last dollar\\nto pay it.\\nBetween these two extremes let us hope to find most of our\\npupils; with as many as possible in the latter class.\\nThe signing of the Pledge of this chapter is a serious matter.\\nAs will be seen, it is almost impossible to dishonor or break it;\\nfor the losses are so graded that an omission affects your gradu-\\nation percentage rather than makes you a pledge-breaker.\\nI, THE UNDERSIGNED, WHOSE NAME 15 HEREUNTO\\nSUBSCRIBED, HAVE CAREEULLY READ EVERY WORD OE\\nTHIS COURSE OE LESSONS EROM THE TITLE PAGE TO\\nTHE END, AND HAVE RE-READ EVERY PLEDGE IN THEM.\\nDESIRING TO PURSUE THIS COURSE OE TRAINING TO\\nTHE END, AND TO ADOPT THE ONE HUNDRED POINTS\\nOE CHARACTER AS A PART OE MY LIFE, I SOLEMNLY\\nPROMISE MYSELE TO ENTER THE EOUR WORKSHOPS\\nAT ONCE; TO MAINTAIN DAILY THE ISt, 2d, 3d AND 4th\\nPOINTS OE CHARACTER, AT LEAST, EVEN IE I EAIL JN\\nOTHERS; TO PERSIST THROUGH TO THE END OE ALL\\nTHE LESSONS; TO TRY AGAIN WHENEVER 1 FAIL; TO\\nWRITE TO MY ALLY ON THE EOURTH DAY OE EVERY\\nMONTH, REPORTING MY PROGRESS; TO OWN EXCLU-\\nSIVELY THIS COURSE OE LESSONS AND TO HOLD THE\\nGREAT PLEDGE.", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 17\\nSAME EROM ALL OTHERS, EXCEPT MY IMMEDIATE RELA-\\nTIVES AND ALLY.\\nSIGNED THIS DAY OE 190-\\nAT\\nUse pen and ink in signing the Pledge.\\nSign it in this book and do not tear out the page. As soon\\nas you have signed it, write your full name and date on the first\\nblank leaf of this book, with the words: Entered the Workshops\\non 190..., and reached the White Citadel\\non 190.\\nThe first date may be filled in now, and the last reserved\\nuntil the finish is made.\\nA person who finishes in a year will be doing well. The\\nmost zealous and faithful ones can save a month or two while\\nothers will exceed the year.\\nThe Great Pledge is known as Pledge ISTo. 1.\\nThe Pledge is not to be copied or signed upon any other\\npaper except in this book. The following statement should be\\ncopied upon good paper and mailed to your ally.\\nStatement.\\nYou are hereby notified that I have this day\\nof 190 signed the Great Pledge. I will communicate\\nwith you on the fourth day of every month.", "height": "4472", "width": "2896", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nSELECTING AN ALLY.\\nThe following provisions should be strictly adhered to in the\\ntaking of this important step:\\n1. A young man should select a young man. There should\\nnot be more than six years difference in ages.\\n2. A young woman should likewise select a young woman.\\n3. A man over twenty-eight or thirty years of age should\\nselect a man not younger than himself, nor more than forty years\\nold.\\n4. A woman should likewise follow the rule just stated.\\n5. A woman over forty should select a woman over forty.\\n6. A man over forty should select a man over forty.\\n7. The ally need not own a copy of this book, as formerly\\nrequired; but the present volume is not to be loaned to such ally,\\nalthough it may be used and studied in the presence of the owner.\\n8. While an ally residing in the same town may be more\\nconvenient, it is fully as efficient to secure one who lives at a\\ndistance, for all reports and notices are to be made in writing in\\neither event.\\n9. Under no circumstances must the ally be of the opposite\\nsex.\\n10. In seeking for an ally it is proper to write a letter some-\\nwhat after the following vein: I have entered upon a course of\\nstudy for my personal improvement, and under the rules laid down\\nit is necessary for me to procure an ally with whom I may confer\\nfrom time to time in writing. The duties of the ally are very\\nbrief. No expense of any kind is to be incurred. I am to make\\na short report once a month, and the advice and other guidance\\nto be received will be indicated as the course of training proceeds,\\nso that no preparation or other labor will be necessary on your\\npart. All that is required is that you are willing to encourage\\nefforts of improvement and advancement in your fellow-beings;\\nand to hold for me beyond my recall until after graduation all\\nrecords and reports that I may send to you. Will you, during\\nthe period of this course, which will probably last a year, act as\\nmy ally?", "height": "4480", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n19\\nLarge elements in order Drought,\\nAnd tracts of calm from tempests made,\\nAlfred Tennyson.\\nTHE RULES.\\nRule 1. Beading Pupils will treat this work as they would\\nany other book. The reading of its pages will do much good.\\nRule 2. Any person may loan, sell or destroy these lessons,\\nas long as he, or she, remains a Eeading Pupil. But upon en-\\nrollment as a Record Pupil, this book must be devoted solely to\\nthe pupil s own use and advancement.\\nRule 3. Xo person can be recognized as a Record Pupil who\\nhas not procured these lessons direct from the Ralston Publishing\\nCompany, of Washington, D. C.\\nRule -i. Two Record Pupils cannot use the same book.\\nRule 5. Whenever a loss incurs, the percentage of the\\nsame, as given in each lesson, must be recorded at once. The\\nreport of percentage made and lost must be forwarded to Wash-\\nington on the fourth of each month.\\nRule 6. The Great Pledge is not to be considered as broken\\nas long as the pupil is trying each day to do the best he can.\\nFailure under these circumstances only decreases the percentage.\\nRule 7. The following system of determining the percent-\\nage of loss and gain shall prevail. When the provisions of any\\none lesson are carried out a record of one hundred marks shall\\nbe made. The failure in whole or in part to accomplish the\\nrequired result shall be reckoned at the value attached to each\\nPoint of Character. This value is seen by the loss which is\\ngiven at the end of each lesson. A loss or gain of one hundred\\nmarks is equal to one per cent, on the final record.", "height": "4452", "width": "2900", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 TEE NEW EDUCATION\\nRule 8. No pupil shall retrace his steps. The period of\\nneglect or abandonment, if any occur, shall be regarded as not\\nexisting; and if the pupil ever after should renew the study the\\nfirst day of renewal shall be regarded as the day next after the\\nlast preceding one on which the lessons were observed. All\\nlessons must be taken in their order.\\nRule 9. A Point, when lost by failure or neglect, may be\\nsaved in the manner prescribed in each lesson.\\nRule 10. The course of training is not considered as ended\\nuntil the pupil reaches seventy-five per cent, or more; whereupon\\na review may be had, in the hope that a more successful result\\nmay be attained.", "height": "4476", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "ENTERING THE WORKSHOPS\\nor\\nCHARACTER.\\nThe pleasant task of moulding a masterly personality is now\\nabout to begin. All that is worth living for in this world is the\\nresult of deep solitude of the mind, wherein the best side of what\\nwe are is comparable with the worst; and there the process of\\neliminating the one and developing the other must have its origin.\\nNo man or woman should be a hermit; nor should any person be\\nalways in communication with others. In the former case there\\ncan be nothing gained by living; in the latter case there can be\\nno deliberation in life. Acts and words must not be altogether\\nhaphazard, for the} r then fail to express the full truth. A little\\nperiod of solitude in each day may prove a developing school of\\ngreat magnitude.\\nThe heights Dy great men reached and Kept\\nWere not attained Dy sudden flight,\\nBut they, while their companions slept,\\nWere toiling upward in the night.\\nHenry Wadsworth Longfellow.\\nLESSON ONE.\\nFIRST POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSELF=EFFORT.\\nFiest Day in the Wokkshops. Eoad No. 1.\\nIn attempting to measure yourself as to strength or weak-\\nness of character no better test could be applied than the Evening\\n(21)", "height": "4476", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nExercise, which is made the requirement of this lesson. This ex-\\nercise is doubly beneficial, as it tends to tone down an irritant\\ndisposition, by its strengthening and calming effect upon the\\nnerves; but its chief value is in the fact that it compels you to\\nmake a self-effort. This effort is directed toward the acquisition\\nof good health and sweet sleep.\\nYet, if the exercises were fruitless and meaningless, it would\\nnot be valueless, for it would develop one of the most important\\nPoints of Character: Self -Effort.\\nWhen Napoleon the First told a young man to write three\\npages of his thoughts upon paper every day, and then destroy\\nthem, some one laughed at the apparent nonsense: but the young\\nman persisted. The effect upon his character was very marked\\nand decided.\\nStudents who spend four years at college, even if they forget\\nall they learn, are laying a foundation for application.\\nIt is a difficult thing to apply one s self, especially by a vol-\\nuntary act of the will. An employe does it from necessity, and\\nis therefore a slave.\\nHealth is the last thing which demands the attention of a\\nwell person: yet to retain health is better than to regain it. Irri-\\ntant natures may be found in sound bodies, for the nerves are\\noften unruly in healthy flesh. Irritable people lack self-control,\\nand thereby lose strength of character. The following exercise\\nis peculiarly calming to the nerves, producing pleasant sleep,\\nmaking the circulation of the blood even, and relieving the\\npressure upon the heart and brain. Its effect upon the general\\nhealth of the body is wonderful.\\nIt is not given to you because of its beneficial results, but\\nsolely for the purpose of developing true character. It is a test\\nof your strength of will. You will probably use it a few nights\\nwith much determination and earnest purpose to carry it through\\nto the end, but in a week or so the novelty will wear off; and,\\nchild-like, you will lapse into a desire for something new to take\\nits place. When the exercise begins to weary you by its\\nmonotony, then will come the battle with yourself. Will you\\nyield to that insinuating demand of your nature which will whisper\\nto you: What is the use? It is a fact that something will say in\\nyour ear: You are tired to-night, very tired. Put off the Even-\\ning Exercise. It won t matter. What good is it?", "height": "4480", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n23\\nFight this battle right then and there. Fight it to the finish.\\nIt is manly and womanly to conquer self. He who would rule\\nothers must first learn to rule himself.\\nNo other accomplishment can bring such solid satisfaction,\\nsuch content of mind as this. If you lose, try again. But win\\nin the end.\\nYour ally will be more interested in receiving your reports\\nfrom this battle than from any other.\\nIt is evening. You are about to retire. Before doing so\\nread this lesson carefully and thoughtfully up to the present place.\\nEesolve to keep the Great Pledge, and say so aloud. Spoken\\nwords are colored with the degree of decision in your nature, and\\nthey react on the resolve. A villain is alarmed at the sound of\\nhis own voice, while a conscientious man is strengthened.\\nRequirement.\\nEvening Exercise.\\nBathe the feet very slowly and thoroughly in cold water.\\nHot water thins and vitiates the blood, and weakens the nervous\\nsystem. If the shock of cold water is painful to you, use luke-\\nwarm water, gradually lowering the temperature. Be sure the\\nfeet are made as clean and pure as the face. Wipe very dry; then\\nrub violently with the hands; and finally rise on the toes and let\\nthe body down twenty or thirty times, until weariness ensues.\\nAll this can be done in two minutes.\\nEemaeks. The value and purpose of the Evening Exercise\\nhave been stated in the early part of this lesson; but it is well to\\nknow something about the feet. Tickling the soles of the feet\\ncauses a painful sensation. This shows their exceedingly sensi-\\ntive nature. A healthful perspiration from the feet, especially\\nat night, if not excessive, will relieve the skin and face from\\nmany impurities in the blood. That part of the body which is\\nsubjected to the most frequent washing will attract and exhume\\nthe greatest quantity of impurities from the blood. People who\\nbathe the face oftener than the rest of the body have pimples, or\\nbad complexions. Owing to the sensitive nature of the feet a\\ncold is easily caught by wearing slippers or low shoes in the house;\\nor by standing on a cold sidewalk in winter long enough for the", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\ncold to pass through the soles of the shoes. This accounts for\\nso many colds, the origin of which has never heretofore been\\nunderstood. Feet washing is considered a mark of hospitality\\nin Oriental countries, and a pleasant pastime in others.\\nWhile not required in this lesson, yet it would be very bene-\\nficial to bathe the lower limbs every evening. It is not healthful\\nto wear at night any of the clothing worn during the day. These\\nare suggestions only.\\nSome pupils will fail to perceive how this exercise will aid\\nto build character. Future records will prove it to them.\\nLosses. When the pupil has performed the Evening Exer-\\ncise for two hundred nights, of which number one hundred have\\nbeen successive, the record must read perfect; that is, one hun-\\ndred marks (equal to one Point, or one per cent.) have been made.\\nIn a person of average faithfulness this course of training will\\nrun a year. In this time many opportunities for making a record\\nof one hundred successive nights will occur, especially if the fail-\\nures are early in the year. However, there will come a time when\\nthe pupil will close the account; and if it is then seen that a per-\\nfect record has not been made, the losses should be estimated as\\nfollows:\\nFirst examine your record on the blank page opposite, which\\nshould contain every date when the Evening Exercise has been\\nperformed. If the one hundred successive nights have not been\\nmade, count the largest number that are successive, and allow\\none mark loss for each night lacking. Thus if there are fifty-six\\nsuccessive there would be forty-four lacking; equal to a loss of\\nforty-four marks. Then allow one mark for every night short\\nin the two hundred in the year. Thus if you have made one\\nhundred and ten nights in the year, of which fifty-six have been\\nsuccessive, your losses would read as follows:\\nNinety marks for ninety nights omitted. Forty-four marks\\nfor deficiency in successive nights. Total loss one hundred and\\nthirty-four. This would detract more than one per cent, from\\nthe final record. If you will send us an account of the facts we\\nwill do the figuring.\\nHow Saved. The losses in this lesson may be saved by de-\\nlaying the final day of reckoning until the task is accomplished.\\nBe sure to record daily the date of each compliance with the", "height": "4480", "width": "2948", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "OXE HUNDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n25\\nrequirements of this lesson. Records should be in ink, and on\\nthe back of the pages of this book.\\nThe first day in the Workshop is ended, and the first stage\\non Eoad No. 1, leading to the North Gate of the Citadel has been\\naccomplished. All things come to an end sooner or later. It is\\na good journey.\\nLESSON TWO.\\nSECOND POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nABSORPTION.\\nSecond Day ix the TToekshops. Eoad No. 2.\\nThe pupil is now carried to another quarter of the world\\nhis great world. He has accomplished the first stage on Eoad\\nNo. 1.\\nThe same must be done here.\\nSimiles are imperfect. Character is four-sided. The suc-\\ncessful structure must be made by building all four sides together,\\nas a palace would be made. Therefore the first stage on Eoad\\nNo. 1 is followed by the first stage on Eoad No. 2, the first stage\\non Eoad No. 3, and the first stage on Eoad No. 4; after which the\\npupil will take the second stage on Eoad No. 1; and so on in\\nproper rotation.\\nIf one knew how, he could easily predict a coming great\\nman or woman by watching any young person past the age of\\nfifteen. Precocity in children generally makes cheeky men and\\nwomen, and often nothing else. The true test of future great-\\nness is not in the boldness of the child.\\nA person past the dividing line, which is near the age of\\nfifteen, who naturally is absorptive, is by nature made great, or\\nborn great. To acquire greatness one must form the habit of\\nAbsorption. A smattering of superficial acquisition can be palmed\\noff only on the ignorant. An absorbing person drinks expe-\\nrience like a sponge, but retains it like a safe, and uses it for its\\nown increase.", "height": "4468", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a36\\nTHE SEW EDUCATIOX\\nNine persons in every ten are shallow ground; chiefly from\\nhabit. A person of strength of character can readily change\\nold habits to new. In this stage of progress we will give you an\\nexercise that will be easy for the shallowest, and yet profoundly\\ndeep for the greatest men and women who have ever lived. It\\nrequires the least possible effort.\\nThe principle involved is founded on the accumulated ex-\\nperience of the ages. The greatest characters of one generation\\nhave absorbed the thoughts of the greatest characters of the pre-\\nceding generations. This accumulation has come down to us.\\nA great character leaves behind him in language the very\\npith and essence of himself. The things a man says are himself.\\nHe at one time loved to quote the grandest thoughts of his\\npredecessors, until by absorption they became a part of kis\\ncharacter.\\nEdward Everett declared this to be the surest and quickest\\nmeans of building a strong character; and no great person has\\never failed to follow the plan. Webster was full of Milton,\\nShakespeare and the Bible.\\nRequirements. The Morning Quotation\\nHave ready, by previous preparation, a list of quotations from\\nthe grandest men and women that have ever lived. If you can\\nfind no other then use those which follow this chapter. Eepeat\\naloud, carefully and seriously, one quotation each morning. This\\nmust be done immediately upon arising, and not in bed; not after\\ndoing other morning duties. It must be the first thought of the\\nday. Think over the sense, learn as much of its meaning as you\\ncan, say it aloud in a proper voice, firmly and feelingly, as many\\ntimes as you prefer, until the spirit of the thought has entered\\nyour heart; take some thought that you believe and feel; some-\\nthing that accords with your nature. The Morning Quotation\\nshould be given two hundred mornings, one hundred of which\\nshould be successive.\\nRemarks. Well spoken words reflect their meaning on the\\nsoul. A thought read by the eye or coldly uttered by the voice\\nappeals to the brain only and is rarely ever fully absorbed. A\\nthought feelingly spoken, with the full heart of the speaker back\\nof it, is soon absorbed. Thus the grandest and most Sublime ex-", "height": "4480", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n27\\nperience of the world s past great men and women can be drawn\\ninto our natures.\\nThe first experiences of childhood are stamped on a whole\\nlife. The earliest impulses of a day live and breathe into a strong\\nand pure life all through the hours till night. We are affected\\nin the day time by the first mood of the morning.\\nIt is better to hunt for the quotations, but this is not insisted\\nupon. Do not wait till the morning, and then search for them,\\nunless you have sufficient time in the morning at your disposal.\\nCheck off daily the fact that you have complied with these\\nrequirements.\\nLosses. These are estimated in the same manner as those\\nof the last chapter.\\nHow Saved. The losses in this lesson may be saved by\\ndelaying the final da} r of reckoning until the full task is accom-\\nplished.\\nThe second day in the Worskhop is ended, and the first stage\\non Eoad 2, leading to the East Gate of the Citadel, has been\\naccomplished.\\nThe pleasant journey thus began ought never to end. We\\nhope our friend who is undertaking this great task will, on\\nreaching the Citadel, write us that the Morning Quotation is to\\nbe continued through life. It is, however, optional with all.\\nMorning Quotations.\\nAs some of our pupils will not have opportunities for select-\\ning a list of quotations to be repeated aloud each morning, we\\nappend a large number of the best. One should be spoken each\\nmorning, with true feeling, several times, until its thought is\\ncompletely absorbed and made a part of your very nature and\\ncharacter.\\nIt is not a good idea to use them in their order, but the one\\nmost in accord with the mood you are in on rising in the morning\\nshould be used.\\nQuotations.\\nWho does the best his circumstance allows, does well, acts\\nnobly angels could do no more.\\nWise men ne er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how\\nto redress their harms.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nSum up at night what thou hast done by day; and in the\\nmorning what thou hast to do.\\nAnd this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues\\nin trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and\\ngood in everything.\\nThe good are better made by ill, as odors crush d are better\\nstill.\\nLove thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; cor-\\nruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand\\ncarry gentle peace, to silence envious tongues.\\nA moral, sensible, and well-bred man will not affront me,\\nand no other can.\\nRevenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long, back on itself\\nrecoils.\\nOh, that my tongue were in the thunder s mouth! Then with\\na passion would I shake the world.\\nOne by one in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed\\nthe lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.\\nEarth is all in splendor drest; queenly fair, she sits at rest,\\nwhile the deep, delicious day dreams its happy life away.\\nWhat s a fine person, or a beauteous face, unless deportment\\ngives them decent grace?\\nOh, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, by that\\nsweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but\\nfairer we it deem, for that sweet odor which doth in it live.\\nThe beautiful are never desolate; but some one always loves\\nthem God or man. If man abandons, God Himself takes them.\\nHeart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, soft as her clime,\\nand sunny as her skies.\\nThere s beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes\\ncan trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise.\\nDo good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.\\nNeither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both\\nitself and friends; and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.\\nThat place which contains my books, the best companions, is\\nto me a glorious court, where hourly I converse with the old\\nsages and philosophers; and sometimes, for variety, I confer with\\nkings and emperors, and weigh their counsels.\\nHe that s liberal to all alike, may do a good by chance, but\\nnever out of judgment.", "height": "4480", "width": "2944", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n29\\nConceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his sub-\\nstance not of ornament; they are but beggars who can count their\\nworth.\\nTis more brave to live than to die.\\nCare to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; and every grin, so\\nmerry, draws one out.\\nVessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep\\nnear shore.\\nThings done well and with a care, exempt themselves from\\nfear.\\nI find the fool when I behold the screen, for tis the wise\\nman s interest to be seen.\\nNature never stands still, nor souls either. They ever go\\nup or go down.\\nNot in vain the distance beacons, forward, forward let us\\nrange. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing\\ngrooves of change.\\nErrors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would\\nsearch for pearls must dive below.\\nLearn to dissemble wrongs; to smile at injuries, and suffer\\ncrimes thou want st the power to punish; be easy, affable,\\nfamiliar, friendly; search and know all mankind s mysterious ways.\\nBut trust the secret of thy soul to none.\\nThe hand that rounded Peter s dome, and groined the aisles\\nof Christian Eome, wrought in a sad sincerity; himself from God\\nhe could not free; he builded better than he knew; the conscious\\nstone to beauty grew.\\nLove, hope, fear, faith these make humanity; these are its\\nsign, and note, and character.\\nWhy should a man whose blood is warm within, sit like his\\ngrandsire cut in alabaster?\\nBut still I dream that somewhere there must be the spirit\\nof a child that waits for me.\\nUnder the storm and cloud to-day and to-day the hard peril\\nand pain to-morrow the stone shall be rolled away, for the sun-\\nshine shall follow the rain.\\nThe fiercest agonies have shortest- reign; and after dreams\\nof horror, comes again the welcome morning with its rays of\\npeace.\\nOne launched a ship, but she was wrecked at sea; he built", "height": "4472", "width": "2908", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 THE NEW EDUCATION\\na bridge, but floods have borne it down; he meant much good,\\nnone came: strange destiny, yet good he had not meant became his\\ncrown.\\nConscience, a terrifying little sprite, that, bat-like, winks\\nby day, and wakes by night; hunts through the heart s dark holes\\neach lurking vice, as sharp as weasels hunting eggs or mice.\\nChangeless march the stars above, changeless morn succeeds\\nto even, and the everlasting hills changeless watch the changeless\\nheaven.\\nGod made the country, and man made the town; what won-\\nder then, that health and virtue, gifts, that can alone make sweet\\nthe bitter draught that life holds out to all, should most abound,\\nand least be threatened in the fields and groves?\\nThe brave man seeks not popular applause, nor, overpower* d\\nwith arm, deserts his cause; unsham d, though foiled he does the\\nbest he can, force is of brutes, but honor is of man.\\nThe brave man is not he who feels no fear, for that were\\nstupid and irrational; but he whose noble soul its fear subdues,\\nand bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.\\nHow sweet and gracious, even in common speech, is that\\nfine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial\\nas the light, welcome in every clime as breath of flowers it trans-\\nmutes aliens into trusting friends, and gives its owner passport\\nround the globe.\\nBetween the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion,\\nall the interim is like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.\\nNor all that heralds rake from coffm d clay, nor florid prose,\\nnor honied lies of rhyme, can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a\\ncrime.\\nThere is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the\\nflood, leads on to fortune.\\nGood name in man or woman, dear my lord, is the immediate\\njewel of their souls.\\nOur acts our angels are, or good or ill; our fatal shadows\\nthat walk by us still.\\nThe saddest thing that can befall a soul is when it loses faith\\nin God and woman.\\nOur doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft\\nmight win, by fearing to attempt.", "height": "4480", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n31\\nLearning by study must be won; twas ne er entailed from,\\nson to son.\\nAttempt the end and never stand to doubt; nothing s so hard,,\\nbut search will find it out.\\nWhen people once are in the wrong, each line they add is\\nmuch too long; who fastest walks, but walks astray, is only-\\nfurthest from his way.\\nTis the divinity that stirs within us; tis Heaven itself that,\\npoints out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.\\nThere is some soul of goodness in things evil, would men.\\nobservingly distil it out.\\nOftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of dark-\\nness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us in\\ndeepest consequence.\\nHow far that little candle throws his beams! so shines a good\\ndeed in a naughty world.\\nLives of great men all remind us we can make our lives,\\nsublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands\\nof time.\\nThe light upon her face shines from the windows of another\\nworld. Saints only have such faces.\\nBe not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last\\nto lay the old aside.\\nThat man lives happy and in command of himself who from\\nday to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the\\nsun illuminates the following day, that which is past is beyond\\nrecall.\\nThen let us, passing o er life s fragile arch, regard it as a\\nmeans and not an end; as but the path of faith on which we march\\nto where all glories of our being end.\\nLook for goodness, look for gladness, you will meet them\\nall the while; if you bring a smiling visage to the glass, you meet\\na smile.\\nAs a rule, he is the happiest man who is contented with\\nwhat he has, and is not waiting for next year, or the next decade,\\nto have a protracted period of enjoyment.\\nIf a man empties his purse into his head no man can take\\nit away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the\\nbest interest.\\nHave more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest..", "height": "4472", "width": "2880", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nHate sometimes enters into the great souls; envy comes only\\nfrom little minds.\\nBlessed be that spot, where cheerful guests retire to pause\\nfrom toil, and trim their evening fire; bless d that abode where\\nwant and pain repair; and every stranger finds a ready chair.\\nNature, that great missionary of the Most High, preaches\\nto us forever in all tones of love, and writes truth in all colors on\\nmanuscripts illuminated with stars and flowers.\\nFail yet rejoice; because no less the failure which makes\\nthy distress, may teach another full success. It may be that in\\nsome great need, thy life s poor fragments, are decreed to help\\nbuild up a lofty deed.\\nLet us have faith that right makes might; and, in that faith,\\nlet us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.\\nIt is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is\\nto be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by\\ncomplaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well\\nthe tools we have.\\nThe battle is not to the strong, the race not always to the\\nfleet, and he who seeks to pluck the stars will lose the jewels at\\nhis feet.\\nIf men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples\\ntemples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it\\nwould make us holy to be permitted to live.\\nHappy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call to-day\\nhis own; he who, secure, within can say, to-morrow, do thy worst,\\nfor I have lived to-day.\\nPains of love be sweeter far, than all other pleasures are.\\nOur hopes like towering falcons, aim at objects in an airy\\nheight; the little pleasure of the game is from afar to view the\\nflight.\\nThe spacious firmament on high, with all the blue ethereal\\nsky, and spangled heavens, a shining frame, their great original\\nproclaim.\\nTo die is landing on some silent shore, where billows never\\nbreak, nor tempests roar; ere well we feel the friendly stroke,\\ntis o er.\\nFor blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late,\\na sure reward succeeds.", "height": "4480", "width": "2944", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n33\\nDefer not till to-morrow to be wise, to-morrow s sun on thee\\nmay never rise.\\nWestward the course of empire takes its way, the first four\\nacts already past, a fifth shall close the drama with the day; time s\\nnoblest offspring is the last.\\nWhile man is growing life is in decrease; and cradles rock us\\nnearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun.\\nThink naught a trifle, though it small appear; small sands\\nthe mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.\\nKnow then thyself, presume not God to scan; the proper\\nstudy of mankind is man.\\nIn faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind s\\nconcern is charity.\\nYears following years steal something every day; at last they\\nsteal us from ourselves away.\\nIf solid happiness we prize, within our breast this jewel lies,\\nand they are fools who roam: The world has nothing to bestow;\\nfrom our own selves our joys must flow, and that dear hut, our\\nhome.\\nNever leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.\\nFair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, while\\nproudly riding o er, the azure realm in gallant trim the gilded\\nvessel goes; youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm.\\nThe boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, and all that beauty\\nall that wealth ever gave, await alike the inevitable hour. The\\npaths of glory lead but to the grave.\\nFull many a gem of purest ray serene the dark unfathomed\\ncaves of ocean bear; full many a flower is born to blush unseen,\\nand waste its sweetness on the desert air.\\nThe hues of bliss more brightly glow, chastised by sabler\\ntints ,of woe.\\nAll nature comes to their manhood through some experience\\nof fermentation. With some it is a ferment of passions; with\\nsome, of the affections; and with richly endowed natures it is the\\nferment of thought and the moral nature.\\nI slept and dreamed that life was beauty, I woke and found\\nthat life was duty.\\nWhy does one climate and one soil endue the blushing poppy\\nwith a crimson hue, yet leave the lily pale, and tinge the violet\\nblue?", "height": "4480", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nPurity, sincerity, obedience and self-surrender, are the\\nmarble steps that lead to the spiritual temple.\\nHere s health to all that we love; here s health to all that\\nlove us; here s health to all those that love them that love those\\nthat love them that love us.\\nThe true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sus-\\ntained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.\\nA soul moulded from heaven; and thou would st have it made\\na star there? Make the means of your ascent to that celestial\\nheight, virtue mingled with action; they draw near the nature\\nand the essence of Gods, who imitate their goodness.\\nHow happy is he born or taught, that serveth not another s\\nwill; whose armor is his honest thought, and simple truth his\\nutmost skill.\\nThe glory of our blood and state are shadows, not substantial\\nthings; there is no armor against fate; death lays his icy hands\\non kings.\\nDare to be true; nothing can need a lie; a fault, which needs\\nit most, grows two thereby.\\nHe who would ascend the stairway of success, must tread\\nthe stones of failure.\\nGlories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, but looked\\ntoo near have neither heat nor light.\\nThe soul s dark cottage, battered and decayed, lets in new\\nlight through chinks that time have made. Stronger by weak-\\nness, wiser men become, as they draw near to their eternal home.\\nA mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is\\nits own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of\\nheaven.\\nNow morn her rosy steps in the eastern clime advancing,\\nsowed the earth with orient pearl, when Adam waked, so customed\\nfor his sleep was airy-light, from pure digestion bred.\\nSo sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, and yet anon repairs\\nhis drooping head, and tricks his beams, and with new-spangled\\nore flames in the forehead of the morning sky.\\nBetter to hunt in fields for health unbought, than fee the\\ndoctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise\\ndepend, God never made his work for man to mend.\\nNothing can work me damage, except myself; the harm that", "height": "4480", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n35\\nI sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but\\nby my own fault.\\nHe who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do\\nanything.\\nIt is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.\\nWhile valor s haughty champions wait till their scars are\\nshown, love walks unchallenged through the gate, to sit beside\\nthe throne.\\nSilence is the highest wisdom of a fool, and speech is the\\ngreatest trial of a wise man. If one would be wise let his words\\nshow him so.\\nThere is in each life some time or spot, some hour or moment\\nof night or day, that never grows dim and is never forgot, like\\nan unfaded leaf in a dead bouquet.\\nDo you ever look at yourself when you abuse another person?\\nHelp whoever, whenever you can; man forever needs aid from\\nman; let never a day die in the west that you have not comforted\\nsome sad breast.\\nModeration is the silken thread running through the pearl\\nchain of virtue.\\nOh, there is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first\\nconsciousness of love, the first flutterings of its silken wings, the\\nfirst rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to\\nsweep through the soul, to purify or destroy it.\\nEvery individual should bear in mind that he is sent into the\\nworld to act a part in it, and, though one may have a more\\nsplendid and another a more obscure part assigned him, yet the\\nactor of each is equally responsible.\\nGood deeds in this world done, are paid beyond the sun, as\\nwater on the root, is seen above in fruit.\\nNothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.\\nThe weak sinews become strong by their conflict with diffi-\\nculties.\\nThere is no state in which the bounteous Gods have not\\nplaced joy, if men would seek it out.\\nThe man who feels certain he will not succeed is seldom mis-\\ntaken.\\nAs the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars,\\ninvisible by day.\\nGreat thoughts are our most precious and abiding treasures,", "height": "4480", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nand they should be eagerly sought and carefully stored in the\\neaves of memory.\\nFancies like wild flowers in a night may grow; but thoughts\\nare plants whose stately growth is slow.\\nA kindly act is a kernel sown, that will grow to a goodly\\ntree, shedding its fruit when time has flown, down the gulf of\\neternity.\\nGet the truth once uttered, and tis like a star new-born, that\\ndrops into its place, and which, once circling in its placid round,\\nnot all the tumult of the earth can shake.\\nToo much of joy is sorrowful, so cares must need abound;\\nthe vine that bears too many flowers will trail upon the ground.\\nA zealous soul without meekness is like a ship in a storm;\\nin danger of wrecks. A meek soul without zeal is like a ship\\nin a calm, that moves not so fast as it ought.\\nAs ships that pass in the night and speak each other in\\npassing; only a signal given and a distant voice in the darkness;\\nso on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another only\\na look and a voice, then darkness again, and a silence.\\nHe who reigns within himself; and rules passions, desires,\\nand fears, is more than a king.\\nBe still, sad heart! and cease repining; behind the clouds is\\nthe sun still shining.\\nThy fate is the common fate of all, into each life some rain\\nmust fall, some days must be dark and dreary.\\nBear through sorrow, wrong, and ruth in thy heart the dew\\nof youth, on thy lips the smile of truth.\\nBuild to-day, then, strong and sure, with a firm and ample\\nbase; and ascending and secure shall to-morrow find its place.\\nSpeech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of\\nthought.\\nMeasure your mind s height by the shade it casts.\\nGreat things through greater hazards are achieved, and then\\nthey shine.\\nPleasure and action make the hours seem short.\\nThe good are better made by ill, as odors crushed are better\\nstill.\\nTis not enough your counsel still be true; blunt truths more\\nmischief than nice falsehoods do.", "height": "4480", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n37\\nYTe rise in glory as we sink in pride: where boasting ends\\nthere dignity begins.\\nBooks shonld be one of these fonr ends conduce, for wisdom,\\npiety, delight, or use.\\nXature never stands still, nor souls either. They ever go\\nup or go down.\\nConscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses\\nwith more nicety.\\nContent can soothe, where er by fortune placed, can rear a\\ngarden in the desert waste.\\nThe keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion makes the\\nthought start into instant action, and at once plans and performs,\\nresolves and executes.\\nBlessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and, though a late, a\\nsure reward succeeds.\\nHe that intends well, yet deprives himself of means to put\\nhis good thoughts into deed, deceives his purpose of the due\\nreward.\\nThe dew-drop in the breeze of morn, trembling and sparkling\\non the thorn, falls to the ground, escapes the eye, yet mounts on\\nsunbeams to the sky.\\nTis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the\\nmountains in its azure hue.\\nMen must be taught as if you taught them not, and things\\nunknown proposed as things forgot.\\nAnd the night shall be filled with music, and the cares that\\ninfest the day shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and as silently\\nsteal away.\\nOftentimes, excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse\\nby the excuse: as patches set upon a little breach, discredit more\\nin hiding of the fault, than did the fault before it was so patched.\\nMen may rise on the stepping stones of their dead selves to\\nhigher things.\\nSome falls are means the happier to rise.\\nFancy, like the finger of a clock, runs the great circuit, and\\nis still at home.\\nThe soul of music slumbers in the shell, till waked and\\nkindled by the master s spell, and feeling hearts touch them\\nbut lightly pour a thousand melodies unheard before.\\nThe deepest ice which ever froze can only o er the surface", "height": "4464", "width": "2908", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nclose; the living stream is quick below, and flows, and cannot\\ncease to flow.\\nWho overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.\\nThe leaf tongues of the forest, the flower lips of the sod,\\nthe happy birds that hymn their rapture in the ear of God, the\\nsummer wind that bringeth music over land and sea, have each a\\nvoice that singest this sweet song of songs to me; This world is\\nfull of beauty, like other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it\\nmight be full of love.\\nThere are as many lovely things, as many pleasant tones for\\nthose who sit by cottage hearths as those who sit on thrones.\\nThe deeds we do, the words we say, into still air they seem\\nto fleet; we count them ever past, but they shall last; in the dread\\njudgment, they and we shall meet.\\nTo conceal a fault by a lie has been said to be substituting\\na hole for a stain.\\nTis only when they spring to heaven that angels reveal them-\\nselves to you. They sit all day beside you, and lie down at night\\nby you who care not for their presence, and muse or sleep, and all\\nat once they leave you and you know them.\\nI find the great thing in this world is not so much where we\\nstand as in what direction we are moving.\\nGreat truths are portions of the soul of man; great souls are\\nportions of eternity; each drop of blood that e er through true\\nheart ran with lofty message, ran for thee and me; for God s law,\\nsince the starry song began, hath been, and still forevermore\\nmust be, that every deed which shall outlast time s span must\\ngoad the soul to be erect and free.\\nMay I reach that purest heaven, be to other souls the cup\\nof strength in some great agony, enkindle generous ardor, feed\\npure love, beget the smiles that have no cruelty.\\nOnly when the clouds are cloven by the tempest passing\\nby, is the rain with sunshine woven, then the rainbow spans the\\nsky.\\nNot mindless of the growing years of care and loss and pain,\\nmy eyes are wet with thankful tears for blessings which remain.", "height": "4472", "width": "2944", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n39\\nLESSON THEEE.\\nTHIRD POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSERIOUSNESS.\\nThied Day in the Woekshops. Eoad No. 3.\\nWe must first explain the meaning of the word Seriousness.\\nIt is not solemnity nor any degree of it. It is not the wearing\\nof long faces, nor the suppressing of mirth. Our use of the word\\nSeriousness is not in the sense of solemnness. We do not ask any\\nperson to suppress mirth. Joy and sunshine are flowers in the\\npathway of happiness, and should be as abundant as the stars of\\nheaven.\\nBut there are persons with whom you could talk for days,\\nwho simply gush and foam in word and deed. The small people\\nof young womanhood, and the simpering froth of young woman-\\nhood, are becoming so numerous in this age that seriousness is\\nunfashionable. Out of the training of the good old Puritans,\\ndespite their errors, came the greatest men and women of the\\nlast two centuries.\\nWe do not admire all that the Puritans did, for their char-\\nacters were developed one-sidedly; they built one wall only of\\nthe Citadel of Character. Yet that determined purpose to do the\\nbest they could in the light in which they lived, attracts our ad-\\nmiration at this day.\\nDid you ever sit for an hour and listen to the conversation\\nof shallow women?\\nDid you ever walk with a man who made jocose and flippant\\nremarks all the way, who laughed at his own nonsense, who said\\nsmart things to hear how they sounded, and who thought he\\nhad made a decided impression on you because he was pleasant\\nand agreeable?\\nThe author can recall an occasion where a gentleman in\\nbusiness (who afterwards failed) entertained a Governor, a United\\nStates Senator, and three others, by an account of himself which\\nlasted an hour; and the nearest approach to a serious remark\\nmade by that gentleman was:", "height": "4480", "width": "2904", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nI tell you we have great fun at our club. Why, last night\\nit was particularly jolly when some one asked: What time does\\nthe ten o clock train leave the city?\\nAnd this gentleman laughed until the tears came, but his\\nauditors looked pained. Yet had this man spent a few minutes\\ndaily in the serious purposes of life he might have formed habits\\nthat would have changed him to a more useful citizen.\\nThere is an air of good nature that does not bear the stamp\\nof frivolity; there is a jolly, ripe-hearted love of fun that is not\\nmere emptiness. People of sense are sure to avoid you if you\\nare an empty wagon full of noise and nothing else.\\nWe eat dessert at our meals, but we do not depend upon ice-\\ncream and confections for a solid dinner. Good reading fills a\\nman, but novels furnish only the dessert; and if we read nothing\\nsubstantial our minds grow sickly.\\nThere is a marked difference between the dignified person\\nand the one who is serious. The former has more deliberation,\\nhas a loftier carriage of mind and body, looks out over mankind\\nfrom a higher plane of vision, never hurries, never takes a round-\\nabout course to a given point in thought or deed, and measures\\nhis language with quasi- judicial care. The serious person is not\\nsour, nor troubled with gloom, nor necessarily deliberative. He\\nregards life as a field of usefulness, not of wanton waste; he sees\\nthe value of laughter, of sport and merriment, just as he sees the\\nvalue of sunshine and flowers; but he does not use them with an\\nidle hand. Humor and wit shed from the soul of one who is\\nappreciative of their usefulness cannot help but being infectious,\\nand therefore the more delightful.\\nYou now understand our meaning of the word Seriousness.\\nEequieements. The establishment of this Point of Char-\\nacter depends upon a different process from the others. The\\nfollowing pledge must be signed in its place in this book:\\nu Pledge No. 2.\\nI solemnly pledge myself to guard my words and actions\\nfrom day to day so that I may gain the good opinion of people\\nof sense.\\nEemaeks. Constant vigilance is the price of this Point of\\nCharacter. A habit of carefulness will soon be formed and the", "height": "4480", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n41\\ntask will become easy. The earnest desire to overcome a silly,\\nshallow style of address will soon make itself felt in your life.\\nThere may be many pnpils who have already cultivated this habit\\nthey need only sign the second pledge, and watch themselves for\\na while to see if it is true. Do not be too sure. The best indi-\\ncation of progress is when you are tempted to do or say some\\nfoolish thing and you check yourself. This is a victory.\\nLosses. Every day that passes in which Pledge No. 2 is\\nbroken calls for a loss of a single mark, which you are to record.\\nHow Saved. If you have lived faultlessly up to this pledge\\nfor two hundred consecutive days, it is not necessary to record\\nany losses.\\nThe third day in the Workshop is ended, and the first stage\\non Eoad 3 leading to the South Gate of the Citadel is accom-\\nplished. The journey will end with a surprising change of dis-\\nposition in the pupil, for its course through the world will calL\\nup many strange experiences.\\nLESSON FOUR.\\nFOURTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nAMBITION.\\nFourth Day ix the Work shops. Eoad Xo. t-.\\nThe last of the four Workshops is now your place of labor.\\nThe next lesson will bring you back to the first Workshop,,\\nwhen an advance will be made in the first journey.\\nSuch Points of Character as Seriousness and Ambition may\\nbe undertaken, on the same days as the first \u00c2\u00bbor second; but it is.\\nbetter, for the present, to devote a single day to the consideration\\nof each lesson. In the last lesson no actual time was necessary\\nto be given to it. but a careful guarding of your words and deeds,\\nthroughout the entire day would suffice. Xo better training in\\ncharacter could be devised.\\nIn entering upon the Fourth Eoad a new condition is in-\\nvolved. In the seclusion of your retirement, alone with yourself", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nand your thoughts, look into the future. Take some opportunity,\\nwhen disturbing influences about you have subsided, and con-\\ncentrate your whole mind upon the problem:\\nHow long do you expect to live, if no accident shall cut your\\nlife short?\\nDo you anticipate the decrepitude of old age?\\nWhen the journey down the final slope of life is well begun,\\nwill you then occupy a greater rank in life than you do now?\\nWill you have accomplished any one great purpose?\\nThe hope to achieve some degree of success at some indefinite\\nperiod of the misty future dwells in every human breast, except\\nwhere the candle has burned low.\\nTake hope out of the heart and it is dead.\\nThe greatest stimulus and impulse in life is the hope of the\\nfuture. A fruitless hope is better than none at all.\\nAmbition may stir a desire for the immediate present, or it\\nmay become the mainspring of the entire future. Get ambition.\\nLet it be anything so that it is not political. That breaks down\\nyour moral nature. To rise politically it is safer in the end to do\\nyour plain duty as a citizen, and neither use the machinery of\\npolitics for your advancement, nor allow yourself to be used as a\\nladder-round for some wire-puller to raise himself on. No man\\ncan permit either and retain his self-respect and character.\\nPolitical ambition is fatal to your best interests and highest suc-\\ncess in life; and even where the force of your genius wrests victory\\nfrom it, it is at the loss of many bosom friends and much that is\\ndear to you in this world.\\nA gentleman engaged in a prosperous business desired to rise\\nto great heights, and entered the field of politics. Test your\\npopularity by seeking an election to the council of your city gov-\\nernment. He was elected. This is a stepping-stone.\\nOne year after he said: I do not like politics. Before I\\ncame here I had a prosperous business and did not know that\\nI had an enemy in the world. Now I have scores of bitter\\nenemies, my business is neglected, and former friends pass me\\nwith dark countenances, as though I was an object of distrust.\\nYet, like a gambler, he felt the fascinating influence of polit-\\nical life and could not get out of it. To-day he has no busi-\\nness, but is hanging upon the skirts of his congressman, looking\\nfor an office in Washington as a government clerk, willing to", "height": "4480", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "05E HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n43\\naccept any salary. This is the story of thousands of men. Do\\nnot soothe yourself with the consoling prediction that you will\\nbe an exception to the general rule. In making up the estimate\\nof your probable future in matters of this kind you will be safe\\nto class yourself with that large army known as the overwhelming\\nmajority. To be a success as a politician you should be bom for\\nit, possessing by nature the following qualifications: Meanness,\\ndishonesty, heartlessness, flattery, lying, cunning, low strategy,\\ntrickery in sacred matters, cant, hypocrisy, false promising, and\\na willingness to cater to the criminal elements for votes. A per-\\nson who never dabbled in politics will say all this is overdrawn,\\nbut no man who ever became a politician will recognize any\\nstretching of the truth.\\nSome years ago, when the first edition of this book appeared,\\na prominent lawyer, who had been one of our best patrons for a\\nlong time, wrote us as follows: Your recent work is not a true\\nguide. I am chairman of the. leading political organization of\\nthis city, and I do not believe you are well informed when you\\nberate politicians as you do. We replied kindly, and advised\\nhim to give up politics for his chosen profession. If he preferred\\nthe law practice to all other vocations he should make that his\\nchief and sole means of success in life, as far as that side of his\\nnature was concerned. After a long period of waiting, he re-\\ncently favored us with the following letter: I did not believe\\nyou years ago; but I am glad to say that the longer I live the\\nmore closely I wish to get to your works and their principles. All\\npoliticians I have known have proved exactly what you said of\\nthem. Success, if it come in that way, is the chance of a lottery;\\nnot the logical result of true ambition and worthy toil. His case\\nis like thousands of others.\\nA person without some clearly defined ambition in life is\\nlike a boat without a course. To men alone this worthy impulse\\nshould not be confined. Both sexes are given opportunities for\\nadvancement; and both should as soon as possible fix a standard\\nunder whose floating colors the daily progress of living should\\nbe directed. It is sad to note that ninety-nine persons out of a\\nhundred have no definite ambition; and those who have any at all\\nare aimless wanderers in their careers. They often set full sail\\nin strong ships well manned and accurate in steering apparatus;\\nand they go forth in quest of a port, believing in the theory of", "height": "4480", "width": "2896", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nColumbus that a world lies somewhere beyond the horizon which\\nthey may discover, even if they get nothing from it and are\\nbrought home in chains. These aimless persons are not the\\nworst, but they are not the best. It is better to have a general\\nambition, even if it is never turned to a focus, than to drift.\\nBut true character makes up its mind rather early in life,\\nand goes on to its goal. In so far as this power of determina-\\ntion is lacking, the character is weak. There are several influ-\\nences that demand consideration.\\n1. The youth of the person may not permit accurate judg-\\nment as to what should be the main ambition of life. Our answer\\nis that each day should have its ambition; so should each week,\\neach month and each year. There should always be something\\nto live for in the immediate present. To select a fixed result of\\na lifetime, when there is no road running thitherward, is living\\nin hope deferred, and this is sadder than an empty heart.\\n2. The parents or custodians of young persons may seek to\\nforce upon them certain vocations that do not and never can\\nfit them. If character is present, is strong, is growing, such per-\\nsons will yield to the wishes of those who have them in charge;\\nand at the same time will go on unfolding their true powers until\\nthey can act upon their own judgments with safety. The situa-\\ntion is never a difficult one. Thus the parents of a young man\\nwish him to become a minister, and he desires to study law. Let\\nhim get all the advantages of the former profession while he may,\\nand he will have ample time to give to legal studies without deny-\\ning himself to either. The contracting of all one s life into a\\nsingle line of preparation is like building a steeple out of all the\\nmaterial that should have gone into the whole church. Lateral\\ntraining is always necessary to give breadth.\\n3. When a person is twenty-one years of age, if there is any\\ncharacter at all, it should begin to shape the course of life; other-\\nwise the individual becomes the adventurer.\\n4. An ultimate choice cannot be made at any time, for con-\\ntingencies are always arising. The honest man may find the\\nlegal profession too great a strain on his manliness; although\\nthere is no field where purity of purpose and ability present\\ngreater opportunities than the practice of law. The minister\\nmay yearn for freedom from the shackles of small duties that\\nrender his higher aspirations as helpless as clipped birds. It is", "height": "4480", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 45\\na pitiful juncture when the ship whose course is fixed to a certain\\nshore must seek another port never thought of in all previous\\ncalculations.\\n5. Vocations that provide no rewards, except under the law\\nof chance, should be avoided as main impulses of ambition.\\nAmong these are such professions as those of the actor, the\\npainter, the sculptor, the singer, the musician and the politician.\\nIf you must pursue one or more of these, adopt them as accom-\\nplishments only, where that is possible. Take the stage, for ex-\\nample; a person may have ability, health, success and all that\\ncan be added to the art through ripeness of experience; yet he\\nis dependent upon the play, the manager, the supporting com-\\npany, the whims of the public, and even the advance agent, as\\nwell as the critics; so that all those qualities that count for per-\\nmanent triumph in most any other profession lose their prestige\\nhere. Not only is this true in theory; it is proved in fact, espe-\\ncially in the fact that thousands of actors and actresses are in-\\nactive and poverty stricken after getting pretty well up the lad-\\nder of fame; and their misfortune is due to no shortcoming of\\ntheir own.\\n6. Except as just stated, nearly all vocations bring sure re-\\nwards where deserved, and in proportion as deserved.\\n7. If a person studies self very carefully, it will be found\\nthat the mainspring of the life is touched at the dawning years\\nof puberty. This is nature. If the voice that speaks then and in\\nthe few years that follow, is given full heed, it will tell the whole\\nstory of the long run of life with unerring certainty. We are\\nwhat we live. Circumstances may shape the details of every\\ncareer, but cannot shift the impulse nor supplant its nature with\\nsomething of another kind. Many persons, after trying other\\npursuits, by experiment, come back to this first impulse too late\\nin life to reach the goal for which they might have contended.\\nAmbition need not expend itself in business, in professions,\\nin social rank, if there are well-grounded hopes in other direc-\\ntions. There is one general rule that applies to all men and\\nwomen: Cultivate to the highest degree the ambition to improve\\nin life, to be better, to be more manly or more womanly, to win\\nthe deeper respect of your fellow-beings, to be more useful day by\\nday to yourself and to the world, to live a broader life and to rise", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46 THE NEW EDUCATION\\nsteadily out of your present condition. In such ambition yon\\nwill find happiness, comfort and success.\\nEequieements. In the privacy of your own room, or some-\\nwhere in seclusion, give the matter solemn thought. Take this\\nbook with you. Eead carefully any part of it which may afford\\nyou help and strength in coming to a decision. When you have\\nresolved to accomplish something in life make a full and careful\\nrecord of it on the blank page opposite this. Write it in ink.\\nThe possibility of erasing a resolve is not helpful. What may\\nsome day seem weaknesses of the present should nevertheless be\\npreserved as milestones of your growth in character. Eecord all\\nyour resolves, all evidence of your inward longings. Select some\\nambition, and make a record of it. It should be your secret.\\nThings of this kind are not property for other eyes. While it\\nwould give the college great pleasure to know what your ambition\\nis and how well you live up to it, yet we do not require you to\\nwrite it to us.\\nAfter selecting and recording some hope and resolve con-\\ncerning the future, it is necessary to append the following:\\nI also have an ambition to accomplish the present work,\\nand am firmly resolved to continue through to the end of the One\\nHundred Points of Character. From this resolve I am deter-\\nmined that nothing shall change me. This I offer as a test of\\nmy character for persistency.\\nEemarks. The foregoing final resolve need not be copied,\\nbut may be signed in the book. If you have no ambition and can-\\nnot summon any, then the ambition to pursue these lessons to\\nthe end will suffice as the great purpose of your present life. A\\nrecord in writing of this should be made on the opposite page in\\ncase no other ambition is found. But you must eventually arouse\\nin your heart the fire of some strong and noble purpose, which,\\nlike a star shining from the sky, shall light your pathway by its\\nsteady light, till it mounts to the zenith of your success.\\nLosses. No record loss can attach to this Point of Char-\\nacter, if you follow the requirements. If you fail totally in this,\\nit means disaster to the whole progress, and it is a necessary part\\nof all the other Points.\\nYou have now finished the fourth day in the Workshop, and", "height": "4480", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "One hundred poixts of character\\n47\\nhave accomplished the first stage on Road 4, leading to the West\\nGate of the Citadel.\\nUnder the Great Pledge you are bound to observe the first\\nfour Points of Character, at least, even if you fail in all others.\\nThe four Points are\\n1. Self-Effort.\\n2. Absorption.\\n3. Seriousness.\\n4. Ambition.\\nCommit these four to memory, and be ready to repeat them.\\nIt is necessary to re-read the lessons in full which accompany\\nthese, and compare your records with the requirements of each\\nlesson.\\nThe development of character by the present process depends\\nupon two things in chief:\\n1. Constant Records.\\n2. Frequent Pledges.\\nYou should be particularly faithful in these two respects.\\nAre you in earnest in this work?\\nYou are making character in the Workshops. When you get\\nOut in the World the value of the present hard labor will be\\nrecognized. When that journey has begun, you will be put to\\na practical test. In the meantime seek to bind yourself by a\\nseries of pledges, to harden your resolve.\\nMake your records show the exact day when each lesson is\\ncommenced.\\nLESSOR FIVE.\\nFIFTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nRIGHT RISING.\\nFifth Day in the Workshops. Eoad No. 1.\\nWe are back again on Eoad No. 1, ready to take the second\\nstage.\\nIt will be seen that we are not setting up a moral code by\\nwhich to live. That matter comes solely within the jurisdiction\\nof the pupil. In the present lesson we do not tell you when to", "height": "4480", "width": "2884", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 THE NEW EDUCATION\\nrise, as that does not affect character. We simply prescribe how\\nyou shall begin the day, for much of your existence between the\\nmoment of arising and retiring is determined by the manner in\\nwhich you spend the first few minutes of the day.\\nIf on awaking it is your duty to arise, do it. The blood does\\nnot circulate until you are on your feet, so very little mental\\nwork can be accomplished before. A decisive jump from the bed\\nis a very good mark of character. Try it.\\nIt is said that the true disposition of a person may be learned\\nby observing him for the first five minutes after arising. Is he\\nirritable? He gives way to it by his countenance as soon as some-\\nthing goes wrong. To a bad disposition things very easily go\\nwrong. Fretfulness grows on itself, and is self-supporting. A\\nperson who is crossed by any accident or annoyance early in the\\nday, and conquers it, will generally go safely through the entire\\nday in good spirits.\\nRequirements. Immediately on rising take a measure of\\nyour disposition. Find out if you are weak or strong in your\\npreparations for a successful day. If anything annoys you, bring\\nit to the test of a subsequent Point of Character which is de-\\nsigned to take the sting all out of it. A little philosophy will\\nlighten the burdens of life. We do not believe in never coming\\nin contact with temptation. Strength comes from victory, and\\nhow can we conquer an enemy which we never meet?\\nAll the faculties that you choose to make foremost in any\\nday may be set in the morning as soon as you get up. Famous\\nmen have testified to the value of this plan; and we learn from\\nthe lives of successful actors who have much to memorize that,\\nif they give the first half hour of the day to learning their lines\\nthey are much more apt to retain them. A very good example\\ncomes from a business man who used to note down during the\\npreceding evening such matters as he wished to give his chief\\nenergies to on the following day; and, on arising, he would take\\nthe paper and commit them fully to memory; then fix in his mind\\nhis plan of action to the minutest detail. This gave him power\\nduring the business hours that followed, and he attributes his\\nsuccess to this method alone.\\nSelf-control is a magnificent trait of character. Let it shine\\nin the first hour of the morning. Give way to temper, to irrita-\\nbility, to all else you please at other times, but in the fresh mo-", "height": "4480", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n40\\nments of the day. when the springs of thought and feeling are\\ngushing forth in new-born impulses, hold all meaner moods in\\ncheek. Be their master. Do not let them be yours.\\nIt is a safe exposure in the morning to seek to measure your\\nstrength with circumstances. Try to see how many things will\\ngo wrong. Right Rising is dependent upon the following con-\\nditions:\\n1. Rise good-naturedly.\\n2. Allow nothing to ruffle your spirits.\\n3. Perform your duties carefully and thoroughly.\\n4. Beview lessons two, three and four. The latter may be\\ndone mentally while dressing.\\nLosses. Failure to comply with these provisions for two\\nhundred mornings, one hundred of which must be successive,\\nwill involve a loss for each and every morning so omitted. The\\nplan of marking losses is exactly the same as that stated in Les-\\nson One.\\nHow Saved. The losses of this lesson may be saved by de-\\nlaying the final day of reckoning until the requirements are ac-\\ncomplished.\\nLESSOX SIXTH.\\nSIXTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nNATURE.\\nSixth Day ix the Workshops. Road No. 2.\\nThe journey on Eoad Xo. 2 was commenced with Absorption;\\nthe purpose being to draw into our character the resultant value\\nof all previous histor}\\\\ A good influence, once set in motion, is\\nnever lost. Its power lives in all after ages, summed up in the\\nutterances of great men and women. These we are reciting every\\nmorning aloud, and making their influence a part of our own\\ncharacter.\\nAbsorption must now be continued in other directions. The\\nmorning quotation gives us a good day s start. Its language\\nshould live constantly in our minds till the day is done; it will\\ninspire us to a love of things about us.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nA narrow man looks seldom at the sky, and when he does,\\nsees nothing.\\nYet he is the center of a wonderful creation. The great\\npeople of all ages have been ardent students of the processes\\nof nature going on around them. A look at the stars at night\\nwith but one inquiry What are they? must open up a long\\nconverse with Nature. Try it. What is space? Where does it\\nend? Can it be possible that an object traveling through space\\nat the rate of a million times one thousand million miles every\\nsecond of time could go on from the beginning of time which\\nnever began, to the end of eternity which cannot be, and yet find\\nspace to roll in! If space ended, what would be found there\\na brick wall? Not only is space endless, but it is also filled with\\ngreat globes, suns and planets, of which our mighty sun is the\\nmost insignificant, our earth too fine a grain of sand to be seen.\\nBetween all these heavenly bodies are planetoids and satellites,\\ntoo small to be reckoned with even the planets which revolve\\nabout each star. Between the little planetoids are meteors and\\nmeteroids, as numerous as the fish of the sea, which on coming in\\ncontact with the atmosphere of the earth are set on fire by the\\nfriction of the air. Spend a moment or two some clear night ex-\\namining the heavens.\\nThe gathering of a storm, and the approach of shower-\\nclouds, furnish profitable study; for they are pictures of energy.\\nIf you visit the country read the formation of the earth in\\nthe fields and hills, the brooks and valleys which make them.\\nBeauty born of Nature s lavish attire passes into the face and\\nsoul. We are hemmed in by more splendor than a thousand lives\\ncould absorb, and we grow better by their inspiring influence.\\nNow and then we meet a man or woman with face radiant,,\\nwith eyes of deeper meaning than those we see by thousands\\nday after day, and with a more inviting fellowship in every word\\nand act than we are accustomed to in the general drift of life.\\nSome faces are so pleasant, although not necessarily beautiful in\\nthe ordinary sense, that we are always glad to see them; others\\nare stamped in lines of grandeur and impress us at the first. I\\ndo not know when I have ever seen a face that is so attractive,\\nis the remark that is sometimes made.\\nWhat is the cause of this type of beauty, that is always more\\nthan beauty? Go into those lives and see. This man is fond", "height": "4480", "width": "2944", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 51\\nof flowers; if lie cannot get them fresh from the hand of Nature\\nhe does the next best thing. A little shelf by his window, a vine\\nat the doorway, a plant that yearns for sunshine in the most\\nfavored place he can find for it. These are evidences of the soul\\nwithin. Yet he sees landscape and foliage as the bird in home-\\nward flight joys to view the country he first had circled ere his\\ndeparture. To this man of nature, the green of trees and shrubs\\nis wonderfully shaded and diversified; the lights and shadows\\nfrolic amid its blowing masses, or nestle in its calmer bosom like\\nthe wavering breath of some rose-born fragrance. He walks out\\nunder the arching skies as would a man of freedom, despising\\nthe walls of houses built by man. He quaffs the pure air of\\nheaven, and knows full well that it alone is meant for life. From\\nflower and plant, from light and air, from field and meadow, from\\nthe songs of brooks and the concerts of the birds, he drinks into\\nhis soul the gladness of nature, and is so much more the man.\\nThere are women who are lovers of the beautiful and im-\\npressive glories that everywhere are evidenced in the handiwork\\nof the Creator. They realize that nature is what God has made\\nto live, while art is what man has made to die; that the picture\\nof the forest or the flowery meadow that hangs upon the wall of\\nthe drawing-room is but the mocking echo of the full life it\\nrepresents; that the roof of the noblest home yields protection\\nrather than the exclusion of the scenes without; that the heart\\nbeats in perfect unison with the pulsations of nature and finds\\nabsolute harmony in no other companionship.\\nEequieements. The following pledge must be signed, on\\nthe day when this lesson is first taken up, which may be at any\\ntime on or before the sixth day after the first lesson is taken; but\\nno subsequent lessons shall be taken before this, as the Rules of\\nChapter VI must be observed.\\nPledge No. 3.\\nI solemnly promise to devote an occasional moment or more\\nto the contemplation of Nature and her beauties, and to absorb\\ntheir influences as far as I am capable and have opportunity.\\nRemaeks. This pledge should be signed in the book and\\nnot copied.", "height": "4464", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nLosses. When closing the final reckoning (which is left\\nto the option of the pupil under our advice), if the following\\nstatement can be signed, then the pupil is entitled to a marking\\nof perfect in this Point of Character. Otherwise a loss of\\none hundred marks must be recorded.\\nStatement.\\nI, the undersigned, having concluded to close my course and\\nmake my final reckoning, hereby state that from the beginning\\nof this Sixth Lesson which was on 190. down to\\nthis the day of 190.. I have, to\\nthe best of my ability, observed the operations of Nature about\\nme, and studied her beauties with a sincere desire to absorb their\\ninfluences and thereby elevate my own character; and I further\\nstate that in this I have attained success.\\nHow Saved. If this lesson presents special difficulties to\\nany pupil, a loss can be saved by giving a greater degree of at-\\ntention to it. Never give up. A person of character takes\\nlessons from failure; a weakling says: What s the use of trying\\nto do a thing which you know you can t.\\nThe sixth day in the Workshop is ended, and the second\\nstage on Road No. 2, leading to the East Gate of the Citadel, is\\naccomplished.\\nLESSON SEVEN.\\nSEVENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nDECISION.\\nSeventh Day in the Woekshops. Road No. 3.\\nHealth, property and happiness are lost by a lack of decision\\nat critical moments in life.\\nThere is a tide in the affairs of men\\nWhich, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.", "height": "4452", "width": "2968", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n53\\nDecisiveness is the result of habit, and is capable of being\\ncultivated to a high degree. Like many important traits of char-\\nacter it may be lost or gained by non-use or good use.\\nThe cultivation of the will power is very important. This\\nmay be done by bringing yourself in contact with tests where\\ndecision is needed. The first step should be taken alone in the\\nWorkshop, where self-study is more appropriate. It will be seen,\\nthat the first nine stages of each journey are prepared in the\\nworkshops, where the pupil is fitted for the journey Out in the\\nWorld, where fellow-beings are dealt with in the progressive\\nstages of the formation of character.\\nOne of the subsequent points requires daily Meditation for\\nat least five minutes. Here you may obtain the needed oppor-\\ntunity for practicing self-decision. In the meantime any oppor-\\ntunity may be seized.\\nTry to be alone under circumstances where an uninterrupted\\nthoughtfulness is possible. Bring up some matter pending in\\nyour life where Decision is essential. If due deliberation has\\nbeen given to it, and you know what should be done, but cannot\\nmake up your mind fully to do it, act at once. This is purely a\\nmental matter. To be able to make up the mind is something\\ndifferent from a prompt execution of the thing decided to be done.\\nThe carrying out of the order of the will is provided for in another\\nlesson.\\nThe operation of the will power must be applied to each and\\nevery lesson in this book. The Great Pledge binds you to the\\nwork, and you cannot, under any circumstances, fail to bring the\\nmind to a full test. If you succeed in deciding to go on with the\\ntraining when you waver, or in deciding to resume when you\\nhave abandoned it, you will have gained important victories; for\\nthe commonest of all faults is the inability to finish a thing com-\\nmenced. How many such defeats have you suffered in life?\\nRequirements. As you go on with your work, take each\\nlesson in turn, and in the moments of retirement resolve to per-\\nform each in turn exactly as directed. Make the Decision firmly\\nand resolutely. Decide that nothing shall interfere. Exert the\\npower of Self-Effort with will. Be strong. Cast away all waver-\\ning, all weak indecision.\\nRemarks. The habit of decision should be applied to one\\nor more transactions during the day. The record which you are", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54\\nTHE NEW EDUCATIOX\\nto make on the opposite page should be the history of your strug-\\ngles in this direction. Do not mistake obstinacy for Decision.\\nThe former is nothing but a closing of the mind against its own\\noperation, which is so common with the brute creation; while\\nDecision is an opening of the mind to an intelligent and effective\\nactivity.\\nLosses. For each wavering of the mind with reference to\\nthe present course of One Hundred Lessons, and with reference\\nto the important acts of life, record a loss of one mark.\\nHow Saved. Where the mind has wavered regarding the\\ncontinuance of any one or more of these lessons, and has lapsed\\ninto a neglect, but afterwards you decide firmly to reclaim your-\\nself and do in fact perform the requirements of the lesson, record\\na gain of tzvo marks. This is called a triumph.\\nAll triumphs win two marks, but they should be put under\\nthe head of triumphs, for marks refer to losses. Each triumph\\nremoves the loss and results in a net gain of one; so that it is\\npossible to make more than 100 per cent, in the full course, if\\ncircumstances favor.\\nThe peculiar effect upon the mind which must follow from an\\nattempt to live up to the various requirements, as they cross and\\nblend in their many-sided demands, is decidedly beneficial. The\\nsystem employed of causing the pupil to grow into and become\\nentangled in these manifold duties is the result of a more careful\\nstudy of mankind and human nature. Years ago the author de-\\nlivered a series of lectures on these subjects and found the method\\nof developing the interest of his audience very effective. There\\ncomes a turning point where the purpose of the pupil becomes\\nso fixed that nothing could induce him to cease the journey.\\nLESSON EIGHT.\\nEIGHTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nCONQUER FAILURE.\\nEighth Day m the Workshops. Eoad No. 4.\\nPerhaps, tired and weary, as you close the second round on\\nyour visit to the Fourth Workshop, you long for the time when", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED r POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n55\\nyou are to go Out into the World. Yet that may be dreaded,\\nfor the contact with the world is sure to carry you Down into the\\nValley, where strong tests are to be brought to bear upon your\\ncharacter to determine its strength. If it will stand the attacks,\\nyou will ere long come out Upon the Heights, and look off over\\nthe weary road which you are now traveling.\\nHave you any idea of the Point of Character which you\\nwill find written over the West Gate of the Citadel? It will\\nprobably surprise you when you learn the true purpose of this\\nfourth journey; for at the present time it does not seem as if the\\nPoints of Character which begin the journey lead to the Cardinal\\nPoint.\\nHave you ever failed in an undertaking? Can you recall an\\ninstance where you resolved to succeed and yet failed? All per-\\nsons have failed at times. Greatness is built upon failure. It\\nwould be difficult to find a successful man or woman who had not\\ncommenced life with defeat. Daniel Webster began a declamation\\nin Dartmouth College, and in a short time broke down. His dis-\\ngrace was complete. A person of less character would have be^\\ncome obstinate and refused ever after to speak in public. A failure\\nto a great mind is but a candle showing a broken link, and telling\\nwhere special effort should be made to mend the defect; but\\nweaklings take defeat as a certain indication that not that way\\nlies my talent. Had Webster been conceited and weak he would\\nhave said: I cannot speak or declaim. It is not my forte. I have\\ntried and proved my inability. I am too shrewd to make a show\\nof myself again.\\nIn order to fail we must be defective. A defect should be\\nmended not abandoned. The tree that rises to its grand propor-\\ntions during years of baffling with the gales is toughened and made\\nstrong. A sheltered and protected plant is delicate. The body\\ngrows strong by conflict, and weak by rest. Character that never\\nmet defeat upon the battlefield, and struggled with it to win or\\nlose, would fall in the first real fight of life. The spider breaks\\nhis web, but tries again. The Scottish general, discouraged\\nthrough six defeats, saw the spider on his seventh effort securely\\nfasten the thread, and took courage. He won. Defeat is the\\ngreatest stimulus to success that a strong character could have.\\nIt is necessary. Weak men and women fear it, but the strong\\ncourt it.", "height": "4480", "width": "2940", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nA rich man started his son in business. The young man can-\\nnot succeed, said his neighbor. I ll test his character, said the\\nrich man. By an adroit plan the father brought financial ruin\\nupon his son. You cannot do business, he said to him. I told\\nyou so, said the neighbor. Let. me try again, said the son; I\\nthink I see my mistake. He tried again by his own efforts, saving\\nsomething from the crash, and resuming on a smaller scale, for\\nhis father purposely refused to help him. He did succeed and ac-\\ncumulated a greater fortune than his father.\\nTo always win is unfortunate. If you do it you cannot acquire\\nthe present Point of Character. It is necessary to fail and win on\\na re-trial. But failures come to you wherever you are.\\nRequirements. Whenever you fail in anything where suc-\\ncess is right and proper, try again. It does not matter, as far as\\nthis Point of Character is concerned^ whether you succeed or not\\non the re-trial. If you try again, you have carried the day; but\\neach subsequent defeat requires a re-trial.\\nRemarks. Foolhardy attempts merit failure. Trying to\\naccomplish something improper is only a test of weakness. The\\npurpose in view must be worthy of a good and wise man.\\nLosses. For each failure to try again record a loss of one\\nmark.\\nHow Saved. If the first failure is followed by a re-trial, a\\nloss is saved. A second re-trial, whether successful or not, entitles\\nyou to one triumph, a third re-trial to two triumphs, and so on,\\nadding one for each re-trial of the same subject-matter. Final\\nsuccess is no test of character.\\nYour records on the present lesson would form interesting\\nreading could they be given to the world. If you have a prolific\\nnature, the records which you make will be somewhat large.\\nWe should be pleased to read them.\\nThe eighth day in the workshop is ended, and the second\\nstage on Road JSTo. 4, leading to the West Gate of the Citadel, is\\naccomplished. This will prove the best journey of the four.\\nWhen the Citadel is reached a, vote of all the members will\\nbe taken to see which road is liked the best.", "height": "4480", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n57\\nLESSON NINE.\\nNINTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nIRRITABILITY.\\nNinth Day en the Workshops. Road No. 1.\\nHere we are back again in the first Workshop. What irritated\\nyou to-day? Did yon ever say some ugly thing to yourself when\\nnot feeling well? Can yon recall throwing an object away, or\\nslamming it down? If some friend, especially of the opposite sex,\\nhad been present yon would not haTe shown this irritability. This\\nproves that yon have control of yourself, but do not care to exer-\\ncise it.\\nOf all the sins against the heart, the nerves, the brain, irri-\\ntability is the most common. If you don t feel well, you excuse\\nyourself; but irritable people get headaches and nervous weakness\\nand heart failure by givng way to this mood. It grows on its\\nown using. The oftener you give way to it the more confirmed\\nand terrible it grows. In hot weather the habit is most common.\\nFaces come to wear the sign upon them, despite our supposition\\nthat looking pleasant will make us look pleasant. Wrinkles, once\\nworn in the face, grow more indented with hypocritical smiles. We\\ncan t put on faces so easily. Character stamps itself indelibly in\\nthe features.\\nIrritability is a lesser degree of insanity. Many an occupant\\nof an asylum has been brought there by giving way to moods of\\nfretfulness until they grew into fixed habits.\\nRequirements. This is to be the battlefield of your hardest\\nstruggle. Here you will fail from time to time. Your records\\nshould be more exact in this than in any other lesson. Open the\\nday good naturedly; give things a chance to annoy you, and fight\\nthem by a resolution in the heart not to give way to the mood.\\nAt night write down some mark showing that you have success-\\nfully fought it all day.\\nRemarks. The habit of refusing to give way to irritability\\nwill soon encase you in a mail of steel. It grows rapidly. Do\\nnot be afraid to meet the temptation, for you must be hardened", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nto it by conflict, A horse is led up to the object that gave him\\nfright, and finding it is not dangerous, he becomes calm. So we\\nshould tempt ourselves occasionally.\\nTo be strong when it is difficult to hold back the disposition\\nto fly into a disagreeable mood, is the true test. A man who suc-\\nceeded in thoroughly mastering a condition of extreme irritability\\nwrites of his battles as follows: I felt that my mind was being\\nweakened by my continual expressions of irritability, and I had to\\ndo something. The least thing annoyed me. When alone, I swore\\nfreely at everything that went wrong, and nothing seemed to go\\nright. But if any person were present I knew enough to check\\nmyself, if I wished. It was when this ability began to leave me\\nthat I awoke, through the inspiration of the School of Character,\\nto the danger I was in. All at once I resolved to be a man. This\\nis how I mastered myself. In the morning, while dressing, I lost\\nmy collar button. It rolled along the floor and disappeared, I\\nknew not where. The room was cold; I was in a hurry, and things\\nwere getting blue; but I held on like a man. I sat down to think\\nand to smile. There was but one place where the button could\\nhave gone, and that was under the dresser. It was enough to\\nmake a saint swear, but I took things calmly, and smiled at myself\\nfor encouragement. In a little while I had the button. This is\\nan example of the way I went to work to conquer my irritability.\\nI am entirely free from it.\\nMany others have been blessed by these lessons. A mother\\nspent several months inducing her daughter to enter this School\\nof Character, as the young lady was high-tempered and had few\\nfriends. She succeeded at last, with results that were perfectly\\ngratifying. No method can equal this for efficiency.\\nLosses. For every act of irritability give yourself a mark.\\nHow Saved. No matter how many marks you have received,\\nif you can go for one hundred consecutive days without being irri-\\ntable, you are entitled to a marking of perfect.\\nThe ninth day in the Workshop is ended.", "height": "4480", "width": "2956", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "OXE HUNDRED PO/.VrS OF CHARACTER 59\\nLESSON TEN.\\nTENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nKIND VOICE.\\nTenth Day in the Workshops. Road No. 2.\\nNature furnishes the impulses of growth, but care guides them\\naright. The vines and flowers and trees are none the less natural\\nbecause the hand of man prunes and directs them. Nature with-\\nout man is wild and barbarous. The same impelling force that\\ndirects the growth of fruits and flowers also crowds the garden\\nwith weeds. So with human character; and in the garden of the\\nheart, as in the soil of earth, the weeds grow faster than the flowers\\nand fruits.\\nThe face is stamped with the soul. The voice is colored by our\\ncharacter, though not so certainly as the face; for caref til attention\\nto the voice will give it sweetness and pleasant tones. True, the\\nstudy of the art of facial expression does much to change an ugly\\nface to one of symmetry and beauty, but the voice yields more\\nreadily to the influences of careful training.\\nTo frame pleasant sayings in the mind is not sufficient, for\\nthey may not sound pleasant when uttered. We can deceive our\\nfriends by writing, for then the voice is not heard; but spoken\\nwords are colored by the feeling that prompts them.\\nA cross remark, when not intended, has often escaped the lips\\nand made enemies. We do not know how the words are going to\\nsound until we open our mouths. A vixen is known by the voice.\\nIrritability is so plainly marked in the manner of speaking that\\nonly strong self-control can eradicate it.\\nIt is not what we say, but how it is said, that influences others.\\nNo can be said to mean Yes. I am glad to see you, may be\\nintoned so as to mean I am sorry you are here.\\nThe voice naturally has three normal pitches: the normal high,\\nthe normal middle, and the normal low. A low pitch is not a soft\\nvoice, but simply low in the musical scale, and should be developed\\ninto strength.", "height": "4480", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "60\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nThe following natural principles will serve to guide you in\\nthe daily use of the voice:\\n1. A very high pitch with force is used by scolds, vixens and\\nirritable people.\\n2. A high pitch, a note or two below the normal high, spoken\\nwith softness and slowly, is the most affectionate and tender of\\nall tones.\\n3. A middle pitch is an indication of calmness of mind and\\nheart.\\n4. A pitch a little below the middle adds earnestness and seri-\\nousness to a tender and loving voice.\\n5. A low pitch spoken with force depicts strength of char-\\nacter, firmness of mind and heart and a ruling spirit.\\n6. A low pitch spoken softly portrays solemnity.\\n7. Whispered tones, either composed of pure whisper or aspi-\\nrated tones, indicate a suspicious, stealthy or deceptive nature.\\nThere should be no aspiration in any of the pitches.\\nThen every voice has its peculiar use of glides or inflectional\\nmovements. Decisive tones use falling glides. Sharp, acid, un-\\npleasant voices give a falling glide to every word on which the least\\nemphasis may be placed, and the scold adds the high pitch to this\\nmovement, thus increasing the harshness of the tone. Tenderness\\nmay use a high, middle or low register, but it always favors a rising\\nglide. Come here, uttered in a high pitch and falling glide,\\nwould repel the person invited. The same invitation given any\\npitch with a rising glide would be tender, kind and agreeable.\\nA person falls easily into the bad habit of using cross tones,\\nespecially if, irritated by the hundred passing events of the day.\\nSelf-control comes into play and assists in the adoption of a uni-\\nformly pleasant voice for all occasions. While such points of char-\\nacter as right rising and irritability are direct aids to the mastery\\nof this, they are not identically the same. Here we wish to go\\nmuch further than in either of the other two. A kind voice belongs\\nto this life as flowers belong to the garden, music to the ear and\\nbright skies to the eye. It wins all species of creation that are\\nworth winning. The child, the animal, the friend are all held in\\nbetter relations to one who speaks kindly than to one who is severe\\nor merely neutral in tone.\\nMany persons, who are not cross or repulsive in voice, are yet\\nnot pleasant and winning. The cold, plain, business, matter-of-fact", "height": "4480", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n61\\nstyle of saying a thing is as free from irritability as the sod is free\\nfrom accusation; but they play no affirmative part in the daily plan\\nof life. If you are not acquainted with the methods of those who\\ncontrol animals best, you would hardly believe that it pays a\\nfinancial return to speak kindly to the dumb creatures. Here is\\na man whose cows look better and actually give more milk than\\nthose of his neighbors. They are better cows, you say. Well,\\nlet him exchange. In two years the neighbor s cows, under the\\nkindly influence of the successful man, look better and give more\\nmilk than his own since he exchanged. Why? Because he makes\\nthem glad to see him and glad to come where he is. This looks\\nlike theory. Come to one of the largest dairies in this country.\\nThe records show unusually large returns, and the owner explains\\nit as follows: I instruct all my men to speak kindly and show\\ngentleness to all my cows. If I suspect a man I have him watched,\\nand he must leave. It is true, sir, that these men, who are often\\ncross in their homes, do not dare be so here. Animals are treated\\nbetter than wives. Then, in another case, a successful farmer\\nwrites: Nothing costs so little and pays so large returns as kind-\\nness to animals. The proposition is easily proved. It is, of course,\\na business matter.\\nBut we look now beyond the question of business into that\\nhigher consideration which calls us out of the dreary drudgery of\\ntoil, and we find that there are human beings who daily lean upon\\nus for comfort; from the little child, whose feet patter over the\\nfloor to the music of our hearts; from the sweet-faced son or\\ndaughter still in youth; from the souls that look up into our faces\\nwith appeals for sympathy, to those who share with us all these\\nresponsibilites and loves; they live and thrive upon kindness as the\\nflowers upon the blessed light of morning. Could we control the\\ndeeds of this world, our first soliciting would be to drive out every\\ncross tone and supplant it with kindness, constant, unending, uni-\\nversal kindness.\\nHow easy it is to adopt the kindly voice. From the first words\\nof the day to the last of evening, all through the busy and the\\nleisure hours, kindness, nothing but kindness, in word, in thought,\\nin deed. Perhaps it costs an effort, but nothing else. It will pay\\nyou in every way. Love will throw its circles of sweetness all\\naround you; friends will spring up from every source; satisfaction\\nwill beam on every countenance; you will be supremely happy, and", "height": "4480", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nit will cost yon nothing. What a revolution would sweep over the\\nface of the globe if the people should adopt this one point of\\ncharacter.\\nRequirements. We cannot prescribe any daily task in de-\\nveloping the voice by a systematic course of training, for our object\\nis to make these lessons as easy as possible, and not impose any\\ntask upon you. If you are a good manager you will be able to handle\\nall the departments of character training with that spirit of genius\\nwhich prompts so many business men to conduct vast business in-\\nterests without haste and without rest. At the time when you con-\\nclude to close accounts and make your final record, you must\\nestimate what proportion of reform you have established in the\\nvoice, with what degree of kindness you have spoken to others\\nfrom the elate of entering upon this lesson to the date of your final\\nrecord. This lesson may be taken up as soon as you desire, but not\\nout of its turn.\\nThe Morning Quotations will furnish excellent training in a\\nsmall way for coloring the voice, for the moods you are in during\\nthese quotations will follow you all day long, at first to a slight ex-\\ntent only, but in a marked degree after a few weeks.\\nLESSON ELEVEX.\\nELEVENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nRETIREMENT.\\nEleventh Day in the Workshops. Road No. 3.\\nThe true development of character originates from within and\\nis strengthened by contact with the world. We are still in the\\nWorkshops preparing for our departure upon the highway, when\\nour present labors will be brought to a test. If we are lost In the\\nDepths/ we shall never even know what awaits us On the\\nHeights/ It must not for a moment be imagined that a few read-\\nings of these lessons will develop character. To climb On the\\nHeights by a cursory method of dealing with these Points of\\nCharacter would give us no adequate idea of the grandeur there\\nawaiting us. Growth and development do not come from knowing\\nhow to do these things, but from actually doing them.", "height": "4480", "width": "2944", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n63\\nSelf-effort is the first and greatest element of character.\\nWhat we are is within lis. We can never know what we are\\nuntil we are alone with ourselves. Goethe claimed that genius\\nis born of our silent moments. The men and women whose names\\nwill live longest in the history of mankind have had their growth\\nin character in the moments of retirement.\\nHow can the mind and heart develop if they are constantly\\nsubjected to the distractions and influences of those about them,\\nfrom early morn till bedtime? There are prosaic lives, whose\\ngenius has lain hidden these many years solely from the fact that\\nthey have never been taught the value of self-examining. Five\\nminutes daily would suffice to change the current of life.\\nKeqttikejients. Sign the following pledge in this book, with\\npen and ink.\\nPledge 4.\\nBelieving in the great value of self-communion, and desiring\\nto know myself better, I solemnly promise to devote at least five\\nminutes daily, and as much more time on Sunday, or some other\\none day in the week (not necessarily exceeding a half-hour) as I\\nmay have at my disposal, to absolute retirement if such is possible\\nin my circumstances of life, and if not, then to do the nearest,\\nbest thing.\\nEemaeks. Record the date, and length of time, of each re-\\ntirement. The mind should dwell upon life and its ambition.\\nMany of the preceding lessons may be blended into this, and time-\\nsaved thereby.\\nLosses. These are estimated in the same manner as those of\\nthe first lesson.\\nHow Sated. The losses in this lesson may be saved by delay-\\ning the final day of reckoning until the full task is accomplished.\\nIf, however, it seems impossible to make 100 per cent., it is better-\\nto go through once, and see how much over 75 per cent, may be\\nattained, and then commence the whole work over again. Conquer\\nFailure.\\nThe eleventh day in the Workshop is ended, and the third\\nstage on Eoad JSTo. 3, leading to the South Gate of the Citadel, is.\\naccomplished.", "height": "4480", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON TWELVE.\\nTWELFTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nEXAMINE DISCOURAGEMENT.\\nTwelfth Day in the Workshops. Eoad No. 4.\\nThis is a peculiar lesson. It differs materially from all the\\nothers and may be said to open up a new line of inquiry.\\nWe are often told to look on the bright side of life. So we\\nshould; but how can it be done? To look out of the windows of\\nthe heart upon the clouds will not bring the sunshine, nor can we\\nby physical force brush away the clouds, for they, are beyond the\\nlength of our arms.\\nSunshine develops the growth that is inaugurated in the\\nshadow. Clouds and rain are as much a necessity in the lives of\\nall men and women as in the natural world. In the sunshine we\\nenjoy what we acquire in the shadow.\\nA wonderful balance is found in all creation. Winter and\\nsummer, spring and autumn, heat and cold, night and day, clouds\\nand sunlight, joy and sorrow, comedy and tragedy.\\nThis pulling in opposite tendencies makes, growth. The sur-\\nvival of the fittest is often the outcome of the contrasts of life, for\\nthe discouraged go under, while the courageous come out a plane\\nhigher on the battlefield of life.\\nWhile not courting or seeking misfortune, we should never-\\ntheless welcome it when it cannot be avoided. It comes as a bless-\\ning and may be turned into joy.\\nRequirements. Whenever you are discouraged, examine the\\nmatter. Ask yourself a few questions: What is the end to be? Is\\nit sure to be as bad as that If it is, and there is no escape!, what\\nis my duty under the circumstances? Can I show my strength of\\ncharacter by enduring the very worst that may happen? Yet may\\nI not do something to lessen the grief?\\nRemarks. If these questions are asked in the right spirit,\\nyou will be prepared for the crash when it comes. If it should fail\\nto come, as it will in nine cases out of every ten, you will have lost\\na splendid opportunity for character training. Do not worry over", "height": "4480", "width": "2956", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n65\\nimprobable troubles, for worrying is the weakest trait of character.\\nIt never did any good, and never will. The strong never worry.\\nBut the weak are constantly crossing bridges before they reach\\nthem, and which they never reach, for the bridges are not there.\\nLosses. If trouble does not come to you during the entire\\ncourse of these lessons, you cannot make a loss, and must mark\\nyourself perfect one point. If you do have trouble:, and become\\ndiscouraged, you must examine the discouragement and turn it into\\na training school of character. A careful record of this bit of your\\npersonal history will be of value to you. For every failure to bear\\nup courageously under discouragement, record a loss of five marks.\\nYou are to be sole judge, unless you wish other estimate, in which\\ncase you may consult your ally.\\nThe twelfth day in the Workshops is ended, and the third\\nstage on Eoad No. 1, leading to the West Gate of the Citadel, is\\naccomplished.\\nOne-third of the hard labor in the Workshops is over. All\\ntoo soon the journeys Out in the World will be entered upon.\\nLESSON THIETEEK\\nTHIRTEENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nHEALTH OF BODY.\\nThirteenth Day in the Workshops. Eoad No. 1.\\nIt may be asked what relation a healthy body bears to char-\\nacter. As has been frequently stated, character is four-sided, and\\nthe neglect of training any one side is soon seen. Many persons\\npossess genius and a lofty character who fail to impress them-\\nselves upon others. Some one or more sides of their nature have\\nbeen left to drift. All should be developed evenly. Eoad 1 leads\\nto a certain cardinal Point of Character which is of vast impor-\\ntance. Its name, not now known to you, will be found written\\nover the North Gate of the Citadel, when you have journeyed\\nacross the plateau On the Heights.\\nIn a fully developed Character Health of Body plays a seri-\\nous part. Its wanton abuse is too prevalent. Carelessness is", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\noften rebuked, but the rejoinder is: Oh, I am always well; when\\nI am sick it will be time enough to take care.\\nIrritable persons excuse themselves for their ill-natured\\nframes of mind and constant wounding of other s feelings by say-\\ning afterwards: I am not well/ Heavy tasks, great undertak-\\nings, strong resistance to temptation, fitness for the training, and\\ncontrol that makes great men and women, are to a greater or less\\nextent interfered with by ill-health. We owe the duty to our\\nfamily and friends, if not to ourselves, to keep the body well.\\nHow to accomplish this is a great question. For the best\\nhealth some habits should be regular, others irregular. Any good\\nbook on Health will give a list of foods to be preferred, a course\\nof daily training to develop the body, and general regime to pre-\\nserve good health, and special treatment for diseases.\\nThe body is a physical machine having power to repair itself\\nin its daily waste and loss. As a machine it is designed to assist\\nits owner in maintaining the struggle for existence.\\nBut if it accomplished nothing more than to keep itself\\nalive and well, it would not serve any useful purpose, unless there\\nwas no other design in its creation than to preserve the existence\\nof the race, and so pass on to succeeding generations.\\nA machine that is able to keep itself in repair, to avert loss\\nof any fixed part, to have itself housed, to keep its boiler fed and\\nprotect itself from the inclemencies of the elements, is nothing\\nbetter than an engine whose owner gets nothing from. Yet the\\nmodern conception of the human body is just this and no more.\\nThe muscles work, the brain toils, and cares are assumed solely\\nfor the purpose of obtaining food, clothing, shelter, comforts\\nand competence for old age, so that the machine will not have to\\nbe trundled into the round-house of charity. Few persons get so\\nmuch out of life; then they reason that this life is merely a state\\nof transition to the next.\\nSuch reasoning is not an excuse for the neglect of the facul-\\nties and talents, which are bestowed so freely now. No person\\nhas a right to abuse the body, either by neglect or by ignorance.\\nThe first thing that an intelligent human being should learn in\\nthis life is the fact that the body is a great engine, designed for\\nsomething more than to keep itself in repair, clothed, sheltered\\nand made comfortable; for the meanest machine serves some other\\nuse than its own preservation.", "height": "4480", "width": "2944", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n67\\nHealth is the basis, the beginning of life s great design. If\\nI eonld only get my health I would be happy. What would you\\ndo with it? An idle machine is not happy and renders no happi-\\nness to its owner. But you say the body is not idle; it works and\\nthinks. What for? To get something for itself. Suppose you\\nwere to buy a work horse, and the animal earned enough to keep\\nhimself fed, sheltered, curried, pleasantly provided with nice sur-\\nroundings, and no more. Of what value is he to you? Yet few\\nhuman beings accomplish as much in life as this horse; else why\\nso much poverty, so much disease, so much charity?\\nMore than ninety-five per cent, of all persons are out of\\nhealth. In this age of food adulterations it is almost impossible\\nto keep well, unless some such standard as that furnished by the\\nRalston Club is adopted. In our course of progressive studies\\nthe subject of health is made the first and is the basis of all\\nelse. There is no reason why ill-health should continue.\\nFew persons realize how much may be accomplished by a\\nminute s attention each day to this subject. Even the use of\\nproper food, carefully selected, and intelligently cooked, will\\nchange the whole current of life. When health is attained you\\nare then ready to make the body accomplish something more than\\nits own keep and comfort.\\nRequirements. Use your judgment in determining how\\nthe health of the body should be best preserved, and when you\\nclose accounts and make the final reckoning, record youself as per-\\nfect if you are satisfied with your attention to your health, and\\nthat the results are the best that could have been attained under\\nthe circumstances of your daily life.\\nLoss. For each neglect of health, as you understand the\\nmatter, record a loss of one mark.\\nLESSON FOURTEEN.\\nFOURTEENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nFLOWERS AND MUSIC.\\nFourteenth Day in the Workshops. Road ISTo. 2.\\nThis Road is probably the pleasantest of all the pathways\\nwhich lead to the Citadel of Character. It is strewn with flowers", "height": "4476", "width": "2956", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nand music, and leads us through nature to the sweetest enjoy-\\nment of life, founded upon the kindest, best, and gentlest in\\nnature s great world of art; for art is but nature at her best.\\nFlowers are the stars of the fields, the pearls of the garden,\\nthe jewels of the home. They abound everywhere to please the\\neye with their beauty, and fill the air with their fragrance. They\\nare to the substantial growth of vegetation what poetry is to\\nprose. The sky is studded with them at night when earth s flow-\\ners have gone to rest.\\nThe love of flowers should be cultivated. To look into the\\nconstruction of the tiniest bud that blooms, and contemplate its\\nworld of life, its intricacy of growth, will awaken the heart to a\\ndesire for the purest things of life.\\nMusic likewise touches the depths of the soul. The love\\nfor this can be increased by cultivation. It is not necessary to\\nbe able to sing or play. The author can do neither, but he can\\nlisten to both with intense enjoyment.\\nThe ballads of everyday life, and the profounder music of\\nthe thoughtful composers, impress the mind and heart; but the\\ncommon airs known as topical songs, and the catchy tunes that\\namuse merely, are to pure music what slang is to refinement.\\nCharacter is not built up by cultivating a taste for slangy songs.\\nHere the line should be drawn.\\nKequirements. The following pledge should be signed:\\nPledge No. 5.\\nI solemnly promise that I will form as close an acquaintance\\nwith flowers and pure music, as my circumstances allow; and will\\nneither sing or encourage others to sing slangy or coarse songs.\\nEemarks. It is not necessary to purchase flowers in order\\nto comply with this pledge. Simply appreciating them when\\nthey are present, thinking of their origin and purpose in life, and\\nstudying their beauty and variety of design will be sufficient com-\\npliance with the terms of the pledge.\\nLosses. A final reckoning when made should include your\\nestimate of success in this Point of Character. If you are satis-\\nfied that, during the time which has elapsed since you undertook", "height": "4480", "width": "2976", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 69\\nthe practice of this lesson, yon have accomplished all that you\\ncould have done, the record should show a perfect marking. For\\neach opportunity missed or neglected, you should record a loss of\\none mark.\\nLESSON FIFTEEN.\\nFIFTEENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSYMPATHY.\\nFifteenth Day in the Wokkshops. Road No. 3.\\nIt is a notable fact that men and women who have possessed\\ngreat strength of character have been sympathetic. One would\\nthink, upon first thought, that Sympathy indicated weakness; but\\na closer examination into the subject will dispel the idea. As a\\nhuman being rises from the lower level of life, away from his near-\\nness to the brute creation, sympathy becomes more marked; al-\\nthough the rank of a person is not determined by ignorance or re-\\nfinement. In humble life we find a cord of sympathy binding\\nmany true hearts together; and so in humble life are purity, virtue\\nand honesty more prevalent.\\nA grand life in any rank cannot be backed by an empty heart.\\nA hatred of humanity unfits a person for noble ends. True it is\\neasy to hate mankind and with apparent cause; but our purpose in\\nliving is to make the race more lovable, and we cannot do that\\nby making ourselves detestable. Could you interest one person in\\nyour community in a training like this which you are now under-\\ngoing, and could that person interest another, and so on, a chain\\nof influence for good would soon run round the world. It would\\nbe a most delightful work to be the first link in a chain of human\\nsympathy for the elevation of your fellow-beings. We shall have\\nmore to say of this when On the Heights; but at present we\\nwould suggest the following plan:\\nBecome a First Link in at least one chain of influence, as\\ndescribed in the 96th Lesson, under the title Do Good in the\\nWorld. The object is to help try and make the race* better.\\nThe 96th Lesson as far as this single object is concerned may\\nbe commenced as soon as this lesson on sympathy is reached.", "height": "4460", "width": "2940", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nRequirements. It is not necessary to become a First Link\\nin a Chain of Influence in order to meet the requirements of the\\npresent lesson. Any means of broadening the heart, and soften-\\ning our hatred of mankind will suffice. In the first place it is\\nwell to accept the fact as a fact that people are selfish. This\\nfault is the law of self-protection. Selfishness begets meanness,\\na trait not apparent in the sunshine of friendship, but always\\npresent and ready to come to the surface on due provocation.\\nBelieve all this, for if not, you will be bitterly disappointed in\\nyour friends some day; ascribe it to its cause self-protection.\\nDeal with it as inherited from the asperities of the darker ages;\\npity all, blame few; and by the ally friendship, of another les-\\nson, talk it over freely, trying to rise above it. When crime and\\nwickedness are most rampant our sympathy should be inwardly\\nthe keenest; while policy may guide our conduct with a firmer\\nhand for the suppression of evil.\\nLosses. At the final reckoning you should determine, ac-\\ncording to your best judgment, what degree of perfection you\\nhave attained, and record a corresponding percentage.\\nLESSON SIXTEEN.\\nSIXTEENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nTACT.\\nSixteenth Day in the Woekshops. Eoad No. 4.\\nThe one key of success in life.\\nIt unlocks all the doors in the hearts and pockets of your\\nfellow-beings. It wins friendships without ostentation; and se-\\ncures wealth without wrong.\\nTact is not strategem, for strategem is dishonesty.\\nThere is no problem of life that cannot be solved by this\\ncharm. It is an olive branch of peace in war, a word of power\\nin weakness.\\nGenius may exist without it, but never wins success. Talent\\nis crippled by its absence. Tact without genius or talent works", "height": "4472", "width": "2956", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n71\\nits way through the world as an irresistible force; but with them\\nwins greatness.\\nIt makes but little difference how much is born in us if we\\nhave no tact, for we cannot use it. There are to-day living in\\nobscurity great men and women, who need only this one power to\\ndevelop them. They have aspirations and longings for a proud\\ncareer, a noble future, but have no tact. Could we go among\\nthem and bring them out by teaching them how to come in con-\\ntact with the world, we should find Shakespeares and Miltons,\\nWhitefields and Spurgeons, Websters and Clays, Garricks and\\nCushmans, where now we see but the yearning for greatness\\nstamped upon the face.\\nTact makes a ready man. It is the knowing Jww, zvhen,\\nzvhat and zvhere, to act and speak. It is four-sided, like Char-\\nacter. It gives us no rule, but we know an ever clanging, always\\napplying rule, that fits all cases with surpassing nicety.\\nHow shall we acquire tact? If it could be had for wealth,\\nsome might buy it, if it were born in people, some might fall heirs\\nto it, but the only royal way to its attainment is to work for it.\\nTo promote a course of training which would enable all (who are\\nwilling to work) to win this, the greatest prize of life, we have\\ncreated the present system known as the School of Character.\\nKequiremexts. Once every week review and recite aloud\\nfrom memory the names of the twenty-five Points of Character\\non each Road, and think what you are doing in each. Tact is con-\\ntact with the world. These lessons prepare for this contact, first,\\nby making character In the Workshops; 7 second, by using it\\nOut in the World; third, by the difficult struggles In the\\nDepths; and fourth, by controlling the world On the Heights.\\nIf any one Point is being neglected, give it special attention.\\nMake a record once a week, or oftener if preferred, of your oppor-\\ntunities for using tact and your success or failure.\\nLosses. On deciding to take your final reckoning, estimate\\nthe value of yourself in this line. If, in your opinion, you are\\nperfect, so mark it. If not, make a percentage based on 100.", "height": "4480", "width": "2940", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "72\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON SEVENTEEN.\\nSEVENTEENTH POINT OF CHARACTER\\nNERVE HEALTH.\\nSeventeenth Day in the Wokkshops. Eoad No. 1.\\nThis calls for self-examination. The brain controls the will,\\nthe will controls the character. What controls the brain? It is\\na section of the spinal cohimn enlarged. The nerves center in\\nthis part of the body. As the nerves are, so is the brain, the will,\\nand the character.\\nAn irritable person is nervons; a nervous person is readily irri-\\ntated. Nerve Health is fed and sustained from the ganglionic\\ncells, the storage battery of the body, which collect and store up\\nfor use the vital fluid. This is life. Its exhaustion means nerv-\\nous prostration, its waste is at the expense of our brain power.\\nNervous people are made so by two causes; physical waste\\nand mental waste. Worrying is an illustration of the latter\\ntrouble. It causes a waste of nerve power by a peculiar conditioa\\nof the lungs, recently discovered. All mental and psychological\\nphenomena may be traced to physical connections. Why think-\\ning should exhaust the nerve power could not be explained, except\\nupon the theory that to think hard caused a consumption of vital-\\nity. On the other hand it shut off the supply. Vitality is drawn\\ninto the nervous system through the oxygen of the air we breathe,\\nor by means of any magnetizing exercise. Hard thinkers stop\\nnatural breathing during great interest in a subject. Their breath\\nis taken at long intervals and in the smaller quantities that will\\nsupport life. People who worry take in even less air, and the\\nsupply of nerve life is quickly exhausted.\\nMovements made by persons who do not think of them, or\\nwho do not direct them by the will power of the brain, are ex-\\nhaustive. The constant activity of the hands or feet, or what is\\nknown as restlessness, soon develops nervousness, for it exhausts\\nthe vitality. All persons at times have this muscular activity,\\nand if continued it not only irritates themselves, but their friends\\nalso. Who can bear to be in the company of a nervous person?", "height": "4480", "width": "2948", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "OXE HUXDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n73\\nWe are made nervous ourselves by watching them. Any move-\\nment of the muscles which is directed by the will power, and ex-\\necuted as directed, strengthens the brain and nerves; but escape\\nmovement, made without our control, are but lesser degrees of\\nSt. Vitus Dance, and must be controlled. Do not allow your\\nnerves to control you. Many ladies and gentlemen in all walks\\nof life have this great fault, and little dream of it. They certainly\\nfail to impress others with their strength of character.\\nEequieemexts. Stand still. Sit still. Watch, the finger\\ntips and feet. Learn to look steadily at any object. Nervous\\neyesight is too common and often passes for stealth or dishonesty,\\nto the detriment of many excellent characters. Make no move-\\nments unless for a purpose. In your moments of activity never\\nmake a lost motion. This is a beautiful practice. Try it. To\\ncontrol others you must have strength of character sufficient to\\ncontrol yourself.\\nLosses. Once a week, until you graduate, study yourself and\\nsee how you have lived up to the requirements. At the time of\\nclosing accounts estimate your percentage.\\nLESSON EIGHTEEX.\\nEIGHTEENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nHOME.\\nEighteenth Day ix the TTokkshops. Eoad Xo. 2.\\nThe love of home is an essential element in one s character.\\nHome is where we live and sleep. Some have but a single room,\\nunattractive and unfurnished, except for the mere use of lodging.\\nTo love a home of that kind calls for a large draft on the imagi-\\nnation. Before a room can be called a home it must have the fol-\\nlowing qualifications:\\n1. A comfortable chair.\\n2. A table to write upon easily; with good pen, ink and paper.\\n3. Light and heat, when needed.\\n4. A library, consisting of three or more books.\\n5. Some attraction to draw you to it.", "height": "4480", "width": "2940", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nMany other things may be added, but if any one of the fore-\\ngoing is lacking it is not home. From this, the least of all, there\\nmay be a gradation to the grand homes of the wealthy. Those\\nwho are most blessed have the least appreciation of a good homo.\\nIt is an imperative duty which we owe ourselves to find a home.\\nA club room is no place for any man, married or single. It is the\\ncurse of domestic happiness, the bane of pure lives, and the de-\\nstroyer of character. A man whose nobility is established may\\nunite with others who are his equal in social relations, or for in-\\ntellectual improvement; but such men, while nominally members\\nof clubs, hold themselves aloof from the routine pleasures of its\\nmembership.\\nYoung men are induced to join so-called Literary Clubs,\\nunder the pretense of self-culture, who waste evening after even-\\ning in cards and filthy anecdotes. If you belong to any club, no\\nmatter what its name or pretense, or what may be the social cast\\nof its membership, do not say, 0, my club is an exception to the\\nrule. I m all right/ Keep a record of the mental or moral\\ngood you receive at each meeting. To be called one of the boys\\nis the smallest honor that could attach to the most insignificant\\nspecimen of a man.\\nIf your home is not pleasant find out the cause. If it is due\\nto the fault of the wife, or husband, see that he, or she, is in-\\nduced to enter the School of Character. Once interested in\\nthis noble ambition, the person who enters this course of training\\nwill soon change the entire current of life. So a son or daughter\\nwho is attracted from home should be induced to enter the\\nSchool of Character. The future of our country, our nation s\\ngreatness, and the standard of morality prevailing over this broad\\nland, are dependent upon our homes.\\nEequike^iexts. Sign the following pledge with pen and\\nink:\\nPledge No. 6.\\nI solemnly promise that I will make home as pleasant as pos-\\nsible under the circumstances; that I will cultivate a love for it;\\nand if I am a member of any club or association whatever, I wilL\\nresign if I deem it to my detriment to continue in it; and in case\\nI do not resign, I will, immediately after each meeting, make a", "height": "4480", "width": "2968", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 75\\nrecord of all the good said meeting has done me, specifying the\\ndetails thereof.\\nLosses. Each failure to live up to the terms of this pledge\\ncounts a loss of five marks, which you must record in any book\\nthat you may set aside for the purpose.\\nLESSON NINETEEN.\\nNINETEENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nHONESTY.\\nNineteenth Day m the Workshops. Eoad No. 3.\\nThe record of this part of your personal history should be\\nkept from all eyes. Write from the motive to make it strictly\\ntrue, and if you are true to yourself in the record you will have\\nestablished an important Point of Character. As the main re-\\nquirement of this lesson is that you make an honest record, it is\\nimportant that the record be kept a secret. No eye but yours\\nshould ever look upon it. The careless cruelty of curious persons\\nshould never enter here. If you have not the courage to make\\na full and truthful record of your honesty or dishonesty you are\\nlacking in character.\\nEor every honest act that you perform the face looks clearer\\nand something is added to your stature. Honest men and women\\nare happier than others, have less to fear in life, and more to\\nenjoy. Children and animals by instinct take the measure of\\nyour honesty, while the world at large sums you up by that inner\\nprocess of the mind which cannot be explained.\\nDoes honesty pay in the business world? At that time when\\nhonesty was the rule it did pay occasionally to take advantage of\\nthe prevailing integrity; but now that dishonesty is the rule, an\\nhonest merchant, known and tested as such, will make the most\\nmoney. The proof of this has come many times within the au-\\nthor s observation. But policy should never prompt honesty.\\nIts intrinsic value makes it the grandest of the virtues. Try it", "height": "4480", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nfor awhile. The glorious feeling which integrity brings to you\\ncannot be described in words. Perfect honest people are never\\ntruly unhappy. Try it.\\nNever underrate yourself in estimating your rank in each\\none of the Points of Character when you take the final reckon-\\ning. If you are in doubt, do not, for the sake of not overestimat-\\ning yourself, lean on the other side. Many people are so modest,\\nand desire to appear so modest, that they never accord them-\\nselves due credit. They generally seek to parade such honesty.\\nBut a good reader of human nature knows it is unsafe to trust\\nsuch persons in any matter.\\nThere are all kinds of honesty in the world, and all kinds of\\ndiplomatic evasions of its use. No life is open as a book, and\\nnone need be. When selfish curiosity, malicious jealousy, and\\nthe desire to tear down reputation to a level with self, shall have\\nentirely disappeared from earth, then may every man and woman\\nlay open each page of life to the wanton gaze of the multitude.\\nThe purest and most sacred things of one s character are matters\\nof personal privacy; and no person is more honest than he who\\nholds them in such charge. It is, therefore, no mark of deceit to\\nrefuse to others that frankness of disclosure which is not sought\\nfrom pure motives.\\nOn the other hand the first law of the universe is honesty of\\nthought, of purpose, of act. No rule of nature tricks us. Every\\nmotion follows a fixed principle. We are born out of that same\\nnature that lives in the breath of God. If whiteness of soul is\\nthe desideratum of eternal existence, we should look toward that\\ngoal in this life even if we never reach it here.\\nLet a man or woman be known and proven honest, and what\\na power in the world such person would be; and what accumula-\\ntion of power must come from the addition of physical health,\\nmental force, executive ability and an all-round character. It is\\na fact that there is something to attain in this life; and that\\nherein we have the noblest of all courses of training.\\nEequieements. These are peculiar. .When the records are\\nfinally closed you are to look at each Point of Character and the\\npercentage you have given it. Included in these must be the\\nrecord of your secret written answers to the following questions,\\non the page opposite to this: 1 Are you in words and deeds\\nalways strictly honest? 2 If not, what proportion of your life", "height": "4472", "width": "2976", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\nsince commencing these lessons has been strictly honest? 3 In\\nwhat were you dishonest during the past week, and what have you\\ngained and what have you lost by it? The last question should\\nbe asked every week.\\nLosses. For each Point of Character concerning which\\nyou have made any dishonest record, record a loss of one mark.\\nIf you fail to record answers to the three questions of the above\\nrequirements, record a loss of 100 marks.\\nLESSOR TWENTY.\\nTWENTIETH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSUPERIORITY.\\nTwentieth Day m the Workshops. Eoad No. 4.\\nAt one time in the world s history all knowledge of the\\ncause of material phenomena was denied man. At another and\\ndarker period fear encompassed human life. We live to-day in\\nthe traditions of the past. The brain inherits the influences that\\nmade our ancestors necessarily superstitious. The nursery is a\\nschool of superstition in which traditionary fears are instilled into\\nthe minds of the youth, who are thus prepared to believe the most\\nabsurd superstitions of maturer years. Strong women and weak\\nmen have in stock from fifty to five hundred beliefs in signs that\\naffect the daily occurrences of life. Coincidences are so frequent\\nthat these beliefs are confirmed and nothing can change them.\\nFriday and the number thirteen terrify a large number\\nof otherwise sensible people. Very few men will begin any under-\\ntaking on Friday, on the theory that our Saviour was crucified on\\nthat day. If a little investigation should prove that the Friday\\nof that occurrence was not the same day which is now called\\nFriday, but that the days of the week, like those of the month,\\nhave been rearranged since then, these people would still be\\nfrightened by the name Friday, forgetting that the name is not\\nso many centuries old. Many great undertakings which were\\ncommenced on Friday have failed, and many have succeeded.", "height": "4480", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "78\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nColumbus set sail oil Friday and discovered America on Friday.\\nIt was an unlucky venture.\\nThe number thirteen is fully as alarming. To sit at a\\ntable where there are thirteen means death to one. Some one dies\\nand the superstition is confirmed. To enter a house at one door,\\nand go out at another, to open an umbrella indoors, to let a per-\\nson or object pass between you and your friend, and so on for\\nhundreds more, keep us in fear of some unlucky event. Such\\nterrors undermine that nobility of character which denotes true\\nmen and women. There is a cause for everything. Not one\\natom of nature moves without a direct cause. Death and dis-\\naster, sorrow and adversity have no more preference for me than\\nfor another. Nothing can happen by chance.\\nThose who read these pages or who discuss the facts, pre-\\ntend to scoff at the idea that they are superstitious. In the full\\nblaze of noon, when the twilight hours and the vaunting echoes\\nof the night-ghost are on the other side of the globe, these idle\\ntalkers boast of their perfect immunity from fear. They are not\\nsuperstitious; they would be very glad indeed to see a spirit (in\\nbroad daylight with a cordon of policemen to lay it if its clammy\\nhand and grave-sweat should seize them); they like thirteen as\\nwell as any other number; they would begin a great undertaking\\non Friday, except that great undertakings are not in their line;\\nand so on until the sun has gone down in its smiling bed winking\\nthe eye of merriment at frail humanity.\\nNearly all persons believe in ghosts, and have not sense\\nenough to trust or to interpret their own fine senses; and herein\\nthey are handieappd all through life, besides being weak in char-\\nacter. Oh, I know there are such things as ghosts, because I\\nhave seen them. If I am not to believe what I see, what am I\\nto do? It would take a book to answer this inquiry to the\\nsatisfaction of the ignorant brain that asks it. We will not at-\\ntempt it; but will say briefly that no mind is perfect, no brain im-\\nmaculate, no sense unerring. That which all eyes may see as\\nwell, and under similar circumstances, in permanency of vision\\nnot flitting like vaporous dreams, might or might not be a fact\\nas claimed.\\nYou may take the best proof of the existence of ghosts,\\nspirits or other supernatural visitors, and double it twenty times,\\nyet it is not strong enough to hang upon. All senses are nervous", "height": "4480", "width": "2968", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n79\\ninterpretations and depend upon currents of pulsing energy beat-\\ning in fine waves against the brain in order to make the thing live\\nas they feel it. To see a ghost, to hear a ghost, to feel a ghost,\\nare sense-interpretations that cannot be regarded as true until\\nthey give their subjects a place in the world of fact. They flit\\nand waver, impress us and are gone. As an excellent investi-\\ngator of this science has said, The senses are not to be trusted\\nunder circumstances that admit of nothing more than the tran-\\nsient passing of sight, touch or sound; yet, could they be trusted,\\nthere is nothing in the strongest claims of proof that could be ac-\\ncepted as evidence of spirits. These visiting impressions may be\\na dozen other things. And it has been well said by another that\\nthe mind is a gallery ot sensitive plates ready to receive pictures\\nthrough every sense. I saw a city in the air. Because I saw it\\nthere I know it is a city. I could not be deceived, for many of my\\nfriends saw it. Proof like this is positive. Do not provoke me\\nby refuting it. The city was above the earth, distinctly separated\\nfrom it, so it could not be a part of this globe. It must then be\\na spirit-city; and of heaven.\\nThis ardent believer in his own senses who did not wish to\\nbe provoked by a denial, does not yet know what mirage is, and\\nevidently does not wish to know. His proof is better than that\\noffered by devotees of superstition, yet is groundless because the\\nmeans of refuting it are within reach of science. A few hundred\\nyears ago it was heresy to believe that the earth was round, or\\nthat the sun did not travel about it once a day. Scientific dis-\\ncovery alone saves us from the proofs offered by superstition.\\nFrom correspondence with the managements of steamboat\\ncompanies, we learn that trans-Atlantic voyages do not begin on\\nFridays; and the reasons they assign are good enough in business.\\nThe passengers and sailors refuse to set sail on Fridays. In\\nnearly all hotels the number thirteen is omitted from rooms\\noffered to guests. These are the two leading fears of the age.\\nThat they are ungrounded can be proved by any organization that\\nchooses to make the attempt. The only tangible reason for avoid-\\ning the unlucky day and number is the semi-paralysis they breed\\nin the individuals who are enslaved by them. Of what use is a\\ncrew of sailors who have set sail on Friday? They are unwilling\\nto do their duty in a storm, because their ignorance is a weight\\nof lead about their necks. On one voyage which began on", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nWednesday, four seamen were made to believe it was Friday; and\\nthe long train of ill-luck that followed them proved that mis-\\nfortune is born of weakness of will rather than days of the week.\\nWhere superstition seizes upon the mind of a person, no\\nmatter by what one of the hundred of bad signs now extant,\\nit is true that the force of character, the energy of purpose, the\\ndetermination to win, are all prostrated; for the fear of failure to\\ncome because of the ill-omen will lay low the very essence of suc-\\ncess, which is faith in yourself; and in proportion as that faith is\\nlessened the chances of winning the smiles of good fortune grow\\nsteadily less. How can a person who lacks faith in self, win any-\\nthing? If one or two superstitious ideas will bring ill-luck\\nthrough this paralysis of faith in the results, what hope of suc-\\ncess in life can that man or woman have who falls down in abject\\nterror before five hundred omens?\\nEequieemexts. Sign the following pledge in ink and on\\nthis page:\\nPledge ISTo. 7.\\nI solemnly promise that I will not allow any sign, super-\\nstition, or belief to affect my words, thoughts or actions, from\\nthe day I reach this lesson as long as I live/\\nLosses. For each breach of this pledge record a loss of one\\nmark.\\nTkiumph. Any person having the time and desire, may, as\\na pleasure, collect all the signs and superstitious beliefs preva-\\nlent, that can be learned by inquiry or other means in the course\\nof a year, or up to the time these lessons close. Mail to us.\\nSuch person may credit a triumph of ten marks.", "height": "4480", "width": "2976", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n81\\nLESSON TWENTY-ONE.\\nTWENTY-FIRST POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nEXERCISE.\\nTwEXTY-FIKST DAY IX THE TVOKKSHOPS. EOAD No. 1.\\nSelf -Effort is the first principle of character. It is the en-\\ntire law of growth. The body acquires strength by muscular ac-\\ntivity directed by the brain. Where the will power is consciously\\nactive the body grows by its own movements; but muscular activ-\\nity disconnected from the will wastes vitality very rapidly.\\nThis seems to be a strange fact.\\nXo person can develop without exercise. There should be\\nevery day of one s life an intelligent regime for the regulation of\\nhealth, of which exercise should form a great part. In the morn-\\ning a few drops of lemon juice in. a half glass of water, or any\\nwholesome fruit, should be taken on arising, and then the body\\nshould be rubbed down with the bare hands wet in cold water.\\nDo not use a sponge or other material in the hand, but always the\\nbare hand itself against the flesh. The constant changing of the\\nattitudes, the brisk rubbing of the skin, and the muscular move-\\nments of the arms, legs and entire body for ten minutes will afford\\nthe grandest calisthenic exercise ever invented.\\nThen a slight vigor in the limbs while walking at any time\\nduring the day will turn a lazy stroll into a healthful exercise.\\nWe can walk in such a way as to derive no benefit from it. Lan-\\nguid movements produce a languid disposition. A full pair of\\nlungs, vigorous respirations and brisk activity, colored by a health-\\nful vigor in all our movements, stamp a new character on mind\\nand heart. The lungs are the seat of life. A full chest is manly\\nand womanly. Few persons carry a fully extended chest; but\\nwhen we meet people of magnificent presence and nobility of car-\\nriage, we can read the grandeur of the character behind this.\\nWeak people, cowards and villains prefer a sunken chest. To\\nbreathe in deeper and fuller breaths, and to empty the lungs\\ncompletely, will add vitality and power to body and nerves. If\\nwe rest we decay. The mere resting in bed for a few weeks, even", "height": "4476", "width": "2928", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "82\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nif not sick, would emaciate the body. Activity is necessary to\\ngrowth and health.\\nAll large modern houses are built with a view to including\\nsomething that will take the place of the old private gymnasium.\\nThe best medical, scientific and educational opinion to-day is de-\\ncidedly against the violence of practice that has always prevailed\\nin gymnasiums. We believe in some such system as that known\\nas Kalston Culture/ so completely set forth in the tenth de-\\ngree book of the star-organization of the Ealston Club, together\\nwith all the music, including over one hundred full-page airs for\\naccompanying the exercises. No home, however humble, could\\nhave a better combination of health and pleasure than this\\nsystem.\\nIt is supposed that the toiler is better situated in life than\\nthe sedentary person. It is true that he can digest worse food,\\nand he gets it. The severity of labor places a great tax on the\\nsystem which is not met bymethods of living that are calculated to\\nrelieve the burden. Not only is the diet poorer, but it is gener-\\nally insufficient for the health of the man or woman that must\\nwork hard for a livelihood. It is true that labor is one kind of\\nexercise, and that it often leads to outdoor life. It also uses up\\nthe nutrition of the general system, and a demand is created for\\nmore food. As against this advantage, comes the serious objec-\\ntion that the toiler does not free the system of effete matter so\\nfreely by bathing, cleanliness and frequent changes of undercloth-\\ning as the sedentary person; and the dead matter is thrown back\\nupon the blood, the liver stagnates, and organic troubles ensue,\\nleading to biliousness, chills and fever in malarial localities, and a\\nclogged stomach. Then, again, the worker comes to the table\\ntoo often exhausted, and the nervous powers of digestion are de-\\npressed. Some of the worst cases of dyspepsia are found among\\nthose whose physical activity, carried right up to the moment of\\neating, has absorbed so much of the vital-fund of the nervous sys-\\ntem that the stomach has insufficient power to accept and assimi-\\nlate food. True hunger must be based on a buoyant demand of\\nthe nerves that carry on the process of digestion; and their buoy-\\nancy does not exist if a general weariness prevails. Work\\ncauses indigestion when it tires too much; and even exercise,\\nstudy, mental strain, worry, or other matter that may weaken\\nthe spirits, will do injury to the stomach. A rest should in-", "height": "4480", "width": "2976", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n83\\ntervene. Never go to the table weary, and think to gain any-\\nthing by eating. The caprices of appetite, the high seasoning,\\nthe abandonment of plain food for the limited scope of relish,\\nare sure to tmdermine every organ in the body, and that\\nwhich is weakest will fail first. It may be the kings, the heart,\\nthe liver, the kidneys, the general constitntion, the blood, or the\\ncentral source of it all, the stomach; but the cause and cure are\\nlocated in the last-named place. Many kinds of work deform the\\nstomach, for the reason that the toiler will not take advantage\\nof what little diversion is possible. To sit, or to stoop continu-\\nally, produces this deformity and consequent indigestion. Bead-\\ning, writing, sewing, and many occupations may be varied at times,\\neven if there is no change of work. Some of it may be done in\\nbrief periods of standing; and all may be so performed as to\\nprevent the concaving of the stomach.\\nMany persons are heard to say: Oh, we do not need physical\\nculture; we get exercise enough in our work. While it is true\\nthat sickly and sedentary persons need physical training more\\nthan those who are active in daily life, it is wrong to suppose\\nthat work takes the place of such training. Let us examine a few\\nof the important differences between the one and the other. The\\nartisan works. Even in all the variety of the least monotonous\\noccupation he runs in a fixed channel, the very sameness of which\\ndevelops automatic habits from which relief is a necessity. Most\\ntoilers are not thus favored. The continuous repetition of one\\nkind of muscular employment deprives the organs of their life-\\ndrawing vitality: for they quickly accommodate themselves to\\nhabits and do not depart from such tendencies until aroused.\\nMuscles are pliant ropes when worked in all the directions which\\nnature has made possible; but when given limited though varied\\nuses, they lose all elasticity for other action. Thus the farmer\\nwho has to bend the knee without much opportunity for balanc-\\ning that action with other movements of a diverse nature, is seen\\nto be crook-kneed; his legs are angular; and it would be a mat-\\nter of some dimculty to give him a graceful carriage or even a\\nfairly graceful walk. In his occupation he stoops; so his back is\\nbent and the curve is a fixed one. His hands grasp implements,\\nwhich require the crooking of the fingers and their joints. These\\nare carried to the grave in their bent condition. Work is of all\\nkinds: vet it is never so varied that it furnishes a counter-balance", "height": "4472", "width": "2956", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "84\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nfor the overtax it imposes on certain sets of muscles; and, when\\nall sets are used, they are given no opportunity whatever for the\\nreaction which training alone can supply: Play is considered bet-\\nter than work as a means of health; and this is true when it is\\nnot attended by the evil influences that so often creep into its\\nmethods; as, for instance, the excess of enthusiasm that takes\\naway too much vitality, the exposure to a low temperature when\\nthe heat of the body is uncomfortable, the disappointments that\\nfollow defeat, and the tendency to overdevelop certain muscles\\nwhile the others are left to yield up their own strength in behalf\\nof the former. It requires the best of judgment to turn play into\\nphysical culture; and, even then, an all-round balance will be\\nfound wanting. Yet as between work and play, it is clearly\\nproved by experience that the latter is to be preferred as a means\\nof inviting health. A true system of physical culture will include\\nthe play impulse, avoid its disadvantages, and furnish a complete\\nbalance to each of its many movements. All physical work\\nwearies through its inadequate rewards; all play is profitless; and\\nthere is no satisfying use of the faculties of the body except such\\nas may be found in a true system of physical training.\\nKequirements. You are requested to put into daily prac-\\ntice the suggestions of this lesson, or else substitute some system\\nof exercise of your own invention. This must be done daily.\\nWalking with vigor, the use of arm movements, or any good sub-\\nstitute may be taken at the option of the pupil.\\nLosses. For every omitted day record a loss of one mark.\\nCheck off on the opposite page, with a single mark, each day you\\nomit to take some exercise systematically.\\nLESSON TWEXTY-TWO.\\nTWENTY-SECOND POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nLITERATURE.\\nTwenty-second Day in the Workshops. Eoad No. 2.\\nThe title of this lesson would indicate what road we are on.\\nIts work is certainly delightful. If you have refinement and thor-\\nough culture you will appreciate the stages of Eoad 2. You are", "height": "4480", "width": "2984", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n85\\nstill giving your Morning Quotation daily on rising. Nature\\nhas already impressed her beauties on your soul. You are trying\\nto acquire a Kind Voice; have formed a deeper admiration for\\nFlowers and Music; love your Home better; and being seated\\nin it at your table with a few minutes to spare you read from your\\nlibrary! How many books are there in it? Three. A few books\\nwell digested make the strongest minds. Beware of the man\\nof one book. Webster read but few, but he absorbed them.\\nMilton, Shakespeare and the Bible, all three grand works from a\\nliterary standpoint, have been committed to memory, in whole or\\nin part, by scores, if not by hundreds, of the greatest men and\\nwomen of the last two centuries. No book excels these in imag-\\ninative power, purity of diction, lofty style, and practical gran-\\ndeur. Gladstone owes much of his greatness to a close study of\\nthe literature of the Bible.\\nTo take a large stride from the sublime to the common-place\\nand practical, we would suggest that our pupils read and re-read\\nthe hundred and more chapters of this course of lessons until the\\nentire system is thoroughly understood. On each review new\\nlight will come to you and valuable facts be more firmly impressed\\non your mind.\\nIn addition to these you should read occasionally from some\\npoet of your own day. If permitted to advise you as to what\\nbooks are best in your small library we would suggest the fol-\\nlowing:\\n1. The Bible. 2. Shakespeare. 3. Milton. 4. Tennyson.\\n5. Longfellow. 6. Bryant. 7. Wordsworth.\\nThis is merely the foundation of what will some day be a\\nlarge library, if not already so. Do not read too long from any\\none book. Come away hungry. Eead but little, yet read that\\nlittle long.\\nEequieements. In the cozy quietude of your little Home\\nwhether humble or grand, have a little library exclusively your\\nown. Make the choice yourself. Occasionally spend five minutes\\nhunting for the gems which lie hidden there.\\nLosses. In estimating your rank at the final reckoning,\\njudge for yourself in how far you have complied with the require-\\nments, and mark your percentage on the basis of one hundred\\nmarks for perfect.", "height": "4472", "width": "2956", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON TWENTY-THREE.\\nTWENTY-THIRD POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSIMPLICITY.\\nT WENT Y-THIED DAY IN THE WOEKSHOPS. EOAD No. 3.\\nThe true world loves simplicity. It is a larger form of in-\\ngeniousness. It is not stupidity, humility nor weakness. It is\\nthe type of real greatness; for only mediocrity displays affectation\\nand ostentatious manners.\\nSome persons are so given to pretentions that it is difficult\\nto decipher their true nature; to such it may be well to affect\\ncharacter, for their true dispositions would appear to disad-\\nvantage. Yet the world reads them. An affected person can\\nnever gain the good opinion of mankind, although he may have\\nspent hours daily in studying the art which he thinks deceives\\nothers. But what shall be done? If affectation covers more\\nserious defects, is not the lesser evil to be preferred? No.\\nConquer the greater. The same care and attention that is re-\\nquired to affect well, should be devoted to the ^One Hundred\\nPoints of Character. Completely remove the deficiencies and\\nmake a man or woman out of what is but an imitation.\\nAs in Rhetoric and Oratory the simple style is the best, so\\nin the daily conduct of life. Do not use words in conversation\\nthat handicap a sentence. Adjectives qualify and limit, there-\\nfore they weaken. The truth never sounds so well as when simply\\ntold. Verbosity, mere verbiage, is distasteful to good listeners,\\nand disgusts bad.\\nSimplicity does not mean humility. A man has a right to\\nbuild as grand a house as he can afford, to dress as well, and live\\nas well as his means will permit, always keeping within his pres-\\nent and prospective income. Fashion should be observed by both\\nsexes, if they can afford it, not otherwise. The constant change\\nof fashion makes trade lively, employs people, and supports labor,\\nthereby distributing the money of the rich among the poor.\\nTimes can never be very hard in a land where the rich waste\\ntheir wealth on changing fashions. They bless the country.", "height": "4480", "width": "2976", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n87\\nNeither is it necessary to wear your heart upon your sleeve/\\nin order to adopt simplicity. Eeserve and silence are often bet-\\nter than unloading the full contents of your brain upon every oc-\\ncasion; but when you do speak or act let it be frank and simple,\\nnot elaborate and affected. Politeness never shows to better ad-\\nvantage than when it bears the stamp of naturalness.\\nEequirements. Cultivate the art of ingenuousness by com-\\nbining Nature with honesty in your daily life, and thereby letting\\nit permeate your contact with the world. Avoid affectation. Do\\nnot seek to make an impression upon others by pretending what\\nyou know you are not, but rather by acting your real self; at the\\nsame time building a noble character to sustain you.\\nLosses. When making your final reckoning, estimate the\\nvalue of your character in this regard, always commencing from\\nthe day you first undertook this lesson.\\nLESSON TWENTY-FOUR.\\nTWENTY-FOURTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nTHOUGHT CONTROL.\\nTwENTY-EOUETH DAY IN THE WORKSHOPS. EOAD No. 4.\\nIdleness is the devil s workshop. Meditation is the lab-\\noratory of character making.\\nThe brain may be idle, but, unlike the idle body, it is active.\\nMeditation is a safe employment of the mind, for it is directed by\\nthe will and wishes. Idle activity of the brain is a condition or\\nthought where the will plays no part, but allows the mind to\\ndrift.\\nIt is a strange order of things that when the muscles are\\nactive automatically the nervous system becomes exhausted; and\\nwhen the brain is similarly employed the mental powers are weak-\\nened. The morals suffer equally with the mind, for a drifting\\nbrain descends to forbidden grounds.\\nThe line seems finely drawn between the flight of fancy and\\nthe long journeys into the imaginative realms where genius loves\\nto roam, on the one hand, and idle drifting on the other; but, to", "height": "4472", "width": "2944", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "88\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\na person who has ever taken the trouble to examine himself men-\\ntally, the difference is well marked. Know thyself was de-\\nmanded by the Greek philosopher; but he had no reference to a\\nknowledge of the physical body, as is claimed by medical adver-\\ntisers. To study your brain and heart, and learn where errors\\nmay be supplanted, is the nobler self-knowledge.\\nThought Control is a delightful study. It is a practice; and\\ncannot be mastered at the first efforts. Ordinarily those who have\\nundertaken the study have failed at first. Here comes an oppor-\\ntunity for applying the Eighth Point of Character, Conquer\\nFailure. No better test could be afforded.\\nThe necessity for Thought Control arises when improper things\\nenter the mind, to tempt us from the path of duty or morality. At\\nsuch a time the ability to change the topic of thought at will is of\\ngreat value. It will save many an error and consequent suffering.\\nTo accomplish this important result it is well to write down a\\ntrain of thought just as it passes through the brain, placing upon\\npaper the subjects touched upon as the train proceeds. This gives\\nus an idea of the ever shifting nature of a drifting brain. The next\\nstep is to endeavor to follow a train of thought mentally without\\nwriting it down, and holding the subjects in the memory, reciting\\nthem aloud in correct order. The third and last step is to follow\\na train and turn it at will upon any desired subject.\\nEequieements. Sign the following pledge in ink.\\nPledge No. 8.\\nI solemnly promise to practice the foregoing exercise when\\nconvenient; also to conquer failure until I am able to control my\\nthoughts also to turn from my brain all baneful thoughts and all\\nsuggestions that would call me from the path of duty.\\nLosses. For every failure to do this when the failure is not\\nultimately conquered, you must record the loss of one mark. When\\nyou have yielded to the failure, but afterwards your strength of\\ncharacter comes to the rescue and you win, record a triumph of\\nten marks. This kind of a victory is exceedingly important.\\nTriumphs will make a valuable count at the end.", "height": "4468", "width": "2960", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n89\\nLESSON TWENTY-FIVE.\\nTWENTY-FIFTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nAUTOMATICS.\\nTwenty-fifth Day m the Workshops. Road No. 1.\\nIn the kaleidoscopic nature of our character formation many\\nnew and unexpected subjects are brought before us. Road 1 is a\\npeculiar path, following out a line of development entirely its own.\\nThe change from one road to another is refreshing. We are making\\nmaterial for the four walls of the Citadel.\\nDid you ever watch your friend? What are his mannerisms,\\nhis individualities, his automatics? Individualities are character\\npeculiarities. Mannerisms are physical peculiarities. Automatics\\nare small and disagreeable movements that attract attention and\\ndetract from the usefulness and character of their possessor.\\nWith the exception of those who have perfect self-control all\\npersons possess automatics. Indeed, it is claimed that no person\\nis free from them at one time or another. One person winks con-\\ntinually. Another squints the face into a constant contortion; this\\ngentleman chews his mustache; this lady bites her finger nails;\\nthat girl nibbles at the ends of her fingers; this young man drums,\\nor keeps his lips in motion; and so on through a long list of auto-\\nmatic motions. But sounds are very disagreeable when automatic.\\nWe can look away from the sight of the motion, but cannot close\\nour ears to the person who drums, or taps the foot, or snaps the\\nfingers, or whistles, or hems at every pause, or says uh. a thou-\\nsand times an hour when struggling for the right word, or keeps\\nsome sound going to annoy those within hearing.\\nAutomatics ruin a person s usefulness and directly affect their\\nsuccess in the world. It is a pleasure to get away from the person\\npossessing them. Many clergymen fail because of this difficulty.\\nNo friend is bold enough to criticise so small a point. It touches\\nthe sensitiveness too finely.\\nThe only way to cure them is through your Ally Who this\\nperson is will be explained in a subsequent lesson. His or her aid\\nwill prove the saving and the making of many a great character.", "height": "4480", "width": "2944", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nAsk your Ally to point out to you and write down such automatic\\nmovements and sounds as lie may discover in you. But you cannot\\ndo the same for him. For the reason that an interchange of criti-\\ncism is always colored by the exchange, it would be injurious. Your\\nAffirmative Ally must therefore criticise you in all matters, but\\nyour Negative Ally must never do this.\\nEequieements. Study your automatic movements and\\nsounds, and obtain from your Negative Ally a list of them. By\\nconstant watchfulness overcome them.\\nLosses. When the final reckoning is made estimate the degree\\nof success you have attained in this Point of Character, and mark\\nyourself on the basis of 100 per cent.\\nLESSOX TWENTY-SIX.\\nTWENTY-SIXTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nBIOGRAPHY.\\nTWEXTY-SIXTH DAY IX THE WORKSHOPS. EOAD Xo. 2.\\nIn this lesson is left much to your own option. As the Morn-\\ning Quotation brings us into intimate relation with the resultant\\nglories of the past, which we absorb by using, so the knowledge of\\nthe lives of great men and women, their habits, education, struggles\\nand triumphs, will enter into our own natures quite unconsciously.\\nMany of the world s greatest advisers said that the surest way\\nto form character is to read biography.\\nWhether this be true or not, it is nevertheless certain that no\\nperson can read the life of any successful man or woman without\\nadding to his own character. It becomes pleasant reading after\\nbeing educated to it. Of course it is not as pleasant as novel-read-\\ning. We all like to read novels, but they should be chosen with\\ngreat care and taken as dessert.\\nMany comparisons between biography and fiction might be\\nmade by captious minds in the hope of substituting the dessert for\\nthe dinner; but arguments can always be made to support the de-\\nsires of the heart.", "height": "4480", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n91\\nWe cannot insist upon you discarding novels, yet they lessen\\nyour mental uesfulness in life. None of them are so close to life\\nas we make ourselves think, and they are not as often the personal\\nhistory of the author as we imagine, nor a true story from life/\\nas we are told. Such claims are specious.\\nA great man or woman is a part of the history of the world.\\nThe name and influence live for centuries; the success is a precedent\\nto guide our lives; the fame an inspiration. No novel can touch the\\nbiography of a great person.\\nIf you have time it is well to select the lives of a. diversity of\\npeople, embracing as many different departments of life as possible.\\nWe only suggest the following as the first course:\\n1 Some great divine. 2 Some great general. 3 Some\\ngreat ruler. 4 Some great poet. 5 Some great prose writer.\\n6 Some great singer. 7 Some great composer. 8 Some great\\norator.\\nThe choice may rest entirely with you.\\nYou may not have time to devote to reading so many books;\\nif not, do the best you can under the circumstances. If, however,\\nyou can complete this first course of biographies, taking eight or\\nmore as a course, it would then be well to take as a second course\\nsome other divine, general, etc. The reading would be most de-\\nlightful, pursued in this way. If you care to, you may write to us,\\nsending a list of your reading in each month, or year. We have\\nknown of hundreds of persons whose taste for trashy novels has\\nbeen completely eradicated by this course of reading, suggested by\\nus years ago.\\nEequirements. Do the best you can under the circum-\\nstances, and at the end of the 100 lessons, record your own esti-\\nmate of your value in this Point of Character, always taking\\ninto consideration the extent to which you have taken advantage of\\nyour opportunities.\\nLosses. No losses occur in this lesson, except as may be based\\non the percentage of 100, in estimating your adoption of our\\nsuggestions.", "height": "4476", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "92\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON TWENTY-SEVEN\\nTWENTY-SEVENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nEXECUTION.\\nTwenty-seventh Day in the Workshops. Road No. 3.\\nDay dreamers and castle builders seldom execute. Once\\nin a while they make the attempt and more rarely still they suc-\\nceed. To build castles in the air is not such an idle occupation as\\nwe would think. All great men have indulged in this happy occu-\\npation, but have turned their dreams into realizations. There are\\nfew castles of this kind that cannot be made realities, for they are\\nfounded upon desires, and these desires are inspired by what has\\nbeeii accomplished. What man has done man can do.\\nMany persons make plans which they know they can execute,\\nbut never enter upon the doing of them; or, if they do, they lose\\ninterest in them, or have not the energy of completion.\\nTo go about a thing is a refreshing element in one s character.\\nYou are sitting now in the memory of some task that you have left\\nunperformed. It would have been done but you could not summon\\nthe energy to start about it,\\nDecision is akin to this, but quite apart. It takes a decisive\\ncharacter to know what to do, and how to do it. To make up one s\\nmind firmly to do or not to do a cerain thing is Decision. To\\nexecute a thing is to go about it at the proper time and place, with-\\nout delay.\\nIn the biography of a successful man, we find that he was ac-\\ncustomed in the morning to write down the tasks of the day, espe-\\ncially those that did not come under the usual routine duties; and at\\nnight he would check those which he had performed. In this way\\nhe formed a habit of doing everything that had to be done, and\\nby this pleasant method achieved great success in life.\\nTo demand and require so much as this of you would perhaps\\nbe impractical, but sometime, when your other duties permit, it\\nwould be well to deal with yourself in some such way.\\nNever put off until to-morrow what can be done to-day, is\\nin the spirit of this Point of Character, and seems to have been\\nmade a very essential element in the lives of many great men.", "height": "4468", "width": "2968", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n93\\nExecutive ability is so necessary in every successful life that\\nyou ought to cultivate its power by special practice. This you can\\ndo by making up your mind that, you will undertake something\\ndifficult, and persist in it to the end. The quality grows by using,\\nand no person need ever fail who is not lamentably weak. One\\nsuccess leads to another; one failure likewise paves the way to its\\nsuccessor. No more marked evidence of a lack of character can be\\nfound than the inability to carry into execution what has been be-\\ngun or what should be undertaken. Everywhere in the world the\\ndemand is for men and women of executive ability.\\nRequirements. Whenever you have decided to do a thing\\nthat is proper to do, do it. Perform all necessary tasks promptly.\\nTo hesitate is to fail in this.\\nLosses. For every time when you fail to perform a task or\\nduty promptly record a loss of one mark. The final accomplishment\\nof it will not save a loss. The first and last element of Execution\\nis to do it when it should be done, with no unnecessary delay.\\nLESSON TWENTY-EIGHT.\\nTWENTY-EIGHTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nRESPECT,\\nTwenty-eighth Day in the Workshops. Eoad No. 4.\\nThis closes the seventh round of visits to the Workshops.\\nTwo more rounds will graduate us from this hard labor and take\\nus out into the wide world, to learn the experience of contact\\nwith it.\\nThe present lesson is in line with the peculiar topics that have\\nalready accompanied us through the preceding stages. Yielding\\nto the will of the majority is the only safe principle in a govern-\\nment by the people. Institutions and social conditions succeed\\nbest when the minority yield due respect to the will of the major-\\nity. Yet if that majority is corrupt our duty to respect them\\nceases.", "height": "4476", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "94\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nThe will of the people in general elections is entitled to con-\\nsiderable regard. The office, if not the occupant, should always re-\\nceive our respect. Sneering at and belittling well established in-\\nstitutions can only re-act against our character. It is the sign of\\na pessimist, a smallness of nature, that portrays narrowness of mind\\nand littleness of heart.\\nA sincere man should receive our support, and if we cannot\\ngive that, we should respect his sincerity.\\nThere is a class of people not the offscourings of creation, but\\na better class and a growing one too, who abuse the various reli-\\ngious sects of the civilized world. Any form of worship that is not\\nprohibited by law is entitled to the respect of every man, woman\\nand child living under the flag that protects that religion. These\\nlessons are not written by a religious person, but by one who in\\nspite of his non-religion, deems it a duty owing to himself and to\\nhis fellow beings to respect the religious sincerity of others. That\\nhypocrites are found in churches is no ground for sneering at re-\\nligion, for a hypocrite would not imitate an unworthy tiling; our\\ndisrespect should apply to the imitation and not to the thing imi-\\ntated. Were it not for the peace that has been brought into the\\nworld through the influences of the churches, there would be no\\nspot on earth where human life would be safe. We are but a few re-\\nmoves from an age of murder and quarrel. If you remove religion\\nfrom the world you must take with it every school house, every\\nhospital, and every charitable institution in the land.\\nIt co sts nothing, it does no harm, and it wins us friends, self-\\nesteem and character, to respect religion, whether we believe in it\\nor not.\\nKequirements. These are not imposed upon you, but the\\nprivilege of determining the matter is left entirely in your hands.\\nIt is presumed that you do not need the admonition not to ridicule,\\nspeak lightly of, nor embarrass those who are sincere in their reli-\\ngious belief.\\nLosses. When making your final reckoning estimate your\\nstanding in this Point of Character on a scale of 100 per cent.", "height": "4480", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n95\\nLESSON TWENTY-NINE.\\nTWENTY-NINTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nCLEANLINESS.\\nTwenty-ninth Day in the Woekshops. Koad No. 1.\\nIf a pupil makes a record of 100 per cent, in the stages of Koad\\n1 alone be will present a marked improvement in health and self-\\ncontrol. Cleanliness is as much a constituent part of character as\\nhonesty. The two seem to be antagonistic, if their refusal to keep\\ncompany is an indication. Whenever you meet a thoroughly honest\\nman you will be safe in saying he needs a bath, yet this is not always\\ntrue. The sweetest dispositioned people we can find lack clean-\\nliness as a rule. Is it because dishonesty and activity are twins, as\\nhonesty and laziness seem to be? A maiden, pure and sweet, hon-\\nest and na ive as an angel, is generally indolent enough to neglect\\nthis great duty. The exceptions are persons of character. If you\\nperform the simple exercise of Lesson 21 every morning there need\\nbe no fear of neglecting them.\\nBut something more should be done. The hands, face, nails,\\nears and neck should be thoroughly clean at all times. The shoes\\nshould be in the best condition and the clothing neat as well as\\nclean. It is not what others think, but the self-satisfaction which\\none has, that rewards the effort and builds one element of character.\\nEvery article of clothing, visible and invisible to the gaze of others,\\nshould be perfectly clean.\\nOur outward appearance should be as attractive for the mem-\\nbers of our own family as for outsiders, except that we do not wear\\nas costly clothing on one occasion as on another.\\nTwo lovers, endeavoring to make an impression on each other,\\ndress and fix to the utmost of their ability and taste. It is de^\\nception to do this before marriage merely to make the other believe\\nthat this is his or her usual appearance. Such care in dressing is a\\nvery good standard to live up to at all times. Love would fill many\\na home if carelessness and untidiness were kept out of it as scrupu-\\nlously after marriage as before. But it is not for others that we\\nshould do this; it is for the solid satisfaction to ourselves which\\nfollows.", "height": "4476", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nRequirements. Put into practice the suggestions of this les-\\nson as far as possible in your circumstances in life. Take an inter-\\nest in your own personal cleanliness and neatness. Form the habit\\nof giving attention to this subject as often as opportunity allows.\\nDo not say there are too many Points of Character to be attended\\nto. There are not. They take up less time than at first seems to\\nbe the case. They grow into our life, and we gradually learn to\\nlive up to them, until no attention is required to be given to them.\\nLosses. At the final reckoning record your estimate of the\\ndegree of character you have attained since this lesson was reached\\nAny lesson may be taken up at any time provided none are omitted,\\n-and none taken out of turn. The basis is always 100 per cent.\\nLESSON THIRTY.\\nTHIRTIETH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nNOBILITY.\\nThirtieth Day in the Workshops. Road No. 2.\\nNobility is the opposite of meanness. When one is present\\nthe other is lacking. No element of character shows itself so\\nreadily and so certainly in the face as this; and the same is true of\\nits opposite. A mean thought drifts into the face as soon as it\\nemanates from the heart. Its lines are unmistakable. It is an\\nerror to suppose that facial formation is inherited. Only the\\nbony structure descends to us. The muscular and nervous forma-\\ntions are made by our own real characters, from which there is no\\nmistake. Some years ago when these lessons were privately taught\\nand earnest pupils accomplished one hundred per cent, we saw\\nplain and even ugly faces transformed into those of beauty and\\nstrength of character.\\nA noble heart makes a grand face.\\nIn order to cultivate Nobility the whole current of life must\\nbe changed. It is not likely that your vocation would be affected,\\nnor your general routine of life; but small and trivial things must\\ngo out, mean feelings and thoughts must be suppressed, and in\\ntheir place you must establish the One Hundred Points of Char-\\nacter. To do this requires a will power and energy worthy of a", "height": "4480", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n97\\ngreat life. All can summon these if they desire. It requires\\nSelf-Effort, Decision and Execution. Put these to the test.\\nJealousy, envy, malice, hatred, revenge, are all planted in\\nevery person s nature. They are aroused and provoked by a variety\\nof causes, emanating from our contact with the world. We will\\nsoon be out of the Workshops and must prepare ourselves to meet\\nthese passions, in our later stages. By the aid of Thought-Control\\nwe can turn these evil thoughts from the mind. A little reasoning\\nof a philosophical nature will show us the uselessness of nursing\\nsuch passions. Ask the question, what good will it do? and fol-\\nlow out a train of thought to solve it. If we seek to bring our\\nenemies to punishment we should do it under the desire to do\\njustice to them and ourselves.\\nTo establish Nobility in its highest and grandest sense,\\nnothing more is needed than to conscientiously pursue this course\\nof training to the end. These lessons, if rightly understood and\\npracticed, will create a new being.\\nRequirements. Allow no mean thought to enter the mind,\\nno mean feeling to come into the heart. Study the One Hundred\\nPoints of Character/ from beginning to end, as often as possible,\\nto draw from them the fullest meaning; and new light will come\\nto you on each re-reading. Absorb their influences until your\\ncharacter is thoroughly imbued with their teachings, and your\\nheart is inspired to win its noblest aim in life.\\nLosses. On making the final reckoning you may determine\\nwhat proportion of 100 per cent, you are entitled to. If at any\\ntime a mean feeling does get possession of you and failure ensues,\\nand you afterwards conquer that failure and drive the meanness\\naway, record a triumph of five marks.\\nLESSON THIRTY-ONE.\\nTHIRTY-FIRST POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nCOMPLETION.\\nThirty-first Day in the Workshops. Road No. 3.\\nWhat is the last thing which you commenced but did not\\nfinish? What the thing before that?", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "98\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nHave you ever outlined a course of reading, or study, with\\nthe resolve to push it vigorously to a glorious end, and then go on\\nfor a few weeks or days and gradually lose interest, till you aban-\\ndoned it? What schemes and plans have fallen through because\\nyou lost interest in them?\\nYou may have an excellent reputation for capability, together\\nwith a good opinion of yourself; and you may be called everything\\nthat is good and great by those who know you; but if you undertake\\nanything with zeal, and fail to retain your interest to the end, you\\nlack an important element of character. Anything that is com-\\nmenced should be finished. There are many excuses for not finish-\\ning, and good excuses, too; just as good as the desire to stop\\nis strong. Is it stenography, or music, or languages, or what? It\\nwas harder than you anticipated. It required too much time.\\nOther things demanded your attention. Some excellent and\\nworthy excuse will enable you lo satisfy yourself; but your char-\\nacter suffers every time 1 and doubly, too, for the abandonment\\nwas a shock to it, and the insinuating deception of the excuse\\nmakes it easier to deceive yourself in other matters on a larger\\nscale.\\nA hard and disagreeable experience is necessary to most people\\nbefore their characters are duly strengthened. If you find yourself\\nengaged in any undertaking that you most anxiously desire to\\nabandon, punish yourself by going through to the end. You\\nshould not have begun it if you did not know what it required.\\nA good, sound punishing will prove wholesome, even if it is a waste\\nof time. But nothing ever proves a waste to those who possess the\\ngenius of adapting themselves to circumstances. It is recorded\\nof scores of great men and women that they never began an under-\\ntaking that was not finished. This may be seen from reading their\\nbiographies.\\nRequikements. Commencing from the time you begin this\\nlesson and continuing to the time of closing accounts and making\\nyour final reckoning, you must make a record on the opposite page\\nof this of every important or new thing which you undertake,\\nomitting those which belong to the routine duties of life. Put\\ndown the time when each is begun and the time when finished\\nor suspended.\\nLosses. For every suspension record a loss of five marks; for\\nevery finish record a triumph of five marks. At the time of the", "height": "4480", "width": "2960", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 99\\nfinal reckoning 100 marks are placed against each of the One\\nHundred Points of Character, making a total of 10,000 marks,\\nequal to one hundred per cent. From these all losses are deducted,\\nand to them triumphs are added. If no losses occur and triumphs\\nare made, over 100 per cent, is possible. Therefore great efforts\\nshould be made to win the latter.\\nLESSON THIRTY-TWO.\\nTHIRTY-SECOND POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSABBATH.\\nThirty-second Day in the Workshops. Road No. 4.\\nIf you are a professed church member and give due observance\\nto the Sabbath, this lesson is not for you. Record 100 per cent,\\nand pass on. Not being familiar with the religious claims, except\\nas matters of historical or common knowledge, we cannot present\\nthem. If there were no religions on earth there would yet be\\nphysical reasons why one day in seven should be reserved for rest\\nand meditation. It would be appealing to your superstitious\\nnature to urge the argument used by many non-religious people,\\nthat work done on Sunday brings ill-luck all the week. That is\\npure nonsense. Sunday workers are guilty people; the tinge\\nshame can be read on their faces. They know that every civilized\\nnation on the globe commands a respectful observance of this day,\\nexcepting such a nation as makes an open bid for the immoralities\\nof life. The largest majority of the people of this country that\\never united on any one question adhere to this observance, and the\\nlesson on Respcctf* commands us to abide by the wishes of the\\nmajority. The greatest men in all professions, and in all depart-\\nments of life, with hardly one exception in a generation, revere\\nthe Sabbath day. The laws protect this day. Contracts are il-\\nlegal; notes are void; and business is forbidden. This is the law\\nunder which you live, and even if you are an atheist, you would\\nnever vote to change the statute. In the hurry and struggle of\\nlife, with its six days of bitterness, its disappointments and con-\\ntaminating influence, the nature of man demands a day of with-", "height": "4476", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "100 THE NEW EDUCATION\\ndrawal from all these a day of rest. When a person defies the\\nconsensus of public opinion and desecrates the Sabbath by work\\nand amusement, he loses a portion of his own good opinion of him-\\nself. No matter how strongly he may assert the contrary, he has\\npinched his moral nature; and should his friends know of this dese-\\ncration they would have a much poorer opinion of him than before.\\nOn the other hand, when a person obeys the criminal law,\\nand respects the sentiment of the nation by keeping this day\\nsacred, he has a feeling of satisfaction that cannot be bought with\\nmoney. His character is made better and nobler. When in\\nRome do as the Romans do is a common motto. When among a\\nSabbath-observing people, observe the Sabbath; but if you go to\\na country of prostitutes and gamblers the chances are that you will\\nnot be required to hold this day sacred.\\nRequirements. Devote Sunday to a day of rest, and with-\\ndrawal from the secular things of life. Church attendance is sure\\nto ennoble your character, even if you do not believe in religion.\\nBut if you do not feel inclined to go to church, seek such a method\\nof showing your respect for the day as will elevate you in the\\nopinion of the better classes of people.\\nLosses. For each failure to comply with the foregoing re-\\nquirements record a loss of two marks.\\nLESSON THIRTY-THREE.\\nTHIRTY-THIRD POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nMEMORY.\\nThiety-thied Day in the Workshops. Road No. 1.\\nForgetfulness and neglect are akin. As the memory is\\nstrengthened with wonderful rapidity it is a sin to permit it to\\nremain weak. Its use or non-use quickly affects it either way.\\nA breaking down of the brain-power first appears in the dif-\\nficulty of remembering names and events; and, while it is not true\\nthat the cultivation of the memory would restore the brain, it\\nwould nevertheless help it some, and prevent mental disease. As\\nwe owe many duties to those with whom we deal in business and", "height": "4480", "width": "2928", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 101\\nsocial life we have no right to forget them, for our forgetfulness\\noften causes annoyance and loss to them. The failure to remem-\\nber has often done us injury, as well as others who depended\\nupon us.\\nThis element of character being an important one it is well\\nto go into a special course of training to develop and strengthen it.\\nSuggestions for Strengthening the Memory.\\n1. Take any sentence; select the emphatic words, having but\\none word to an elementary thought; commit these words to memory\\nin their order; then endeavor to complete the entire sentence\\nmentally or aloud.\\n2. In going from your home to any other house or place of\\nbusiness, try to recall all the persons by name whom you met, and\\nin the order in which you met them.\\n3. On retiring for the night recall the events of the day in\\nthe order in which they have occurred.\\n4. During meditation carry on a train of thought as directed\\nin the lesson on Thought-Control, and recall all the topics in reverse\\norder, then in the order in which they came to the mind.\\n5. A most excellent practice, and probably the very best\\nfor developing a quick and ready memory is to listen closely to a\\nsermon, and on the first trial, seek to recall the text, and the most\\nimportant part made during the discourse. On the second trial\\nrecall the two most important points established by the sermon;\\nand so on increasing by one each time. Do not seek at first to\\nrecall more than one point, for, although you will undoubtedly be\\nable to remember very many, it will prevent the scale of increase\\nif you do not follow the plan here given.\\nEequirements. To carry into practice the foregoing sug-\\ngestions as far as you may be able, with due regard for the demands\\nof your other duties, is all we ask of you. By learning how to\\neconomize the moments of life you will have time to accomplish\\nmany things that now seem impossible. See the lesson on\\nMoments.\\nLosses. When you make the final reckoning, if you think you\\nhave done the best you could to strengthen your memory under all\\nthe circumstances of your life since reaching this lesson, place\\nyour mark at 100 per cent. If not, then estimate its value on the\\nbasis of 100.", "height": "4456", "width": "2944", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "102\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON THIKTY-FOUK.\\nTHIRTY FOURTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nCONSCIENCE.\\nThirty-fourth Day in the Workshops. Eoad lso. 2.\\nA clear conscience is worth more than all the wealth and\\npower the world ever gave. Happiness is a relative term.\\nWherever we may be, whatever our success in life may have brought\\nto us of money, friends or rank, we find happiness only in our\\nconscience. The unhappy rich man looks pityingly down on the\\nbegrimed toiler, and thanks fate that his lot is not as harsh as the\\nserf whose heart is the happier of the two. No person is perfectly\\nhappy, but he whose conscience is as white as snow. To him dis-\\ncontent is a sin; uncleanliness is a sin. If any condensed system\\nfor the prolongation of human life were to be suggested, three\\nwords would cover the ground: Conscience, contentment and clean-\\nliness. These are practical, and reach the everyday necessities of\\nlife. The mind may make or mar the health of the body. Peace\\nwill make life long, by removing its opposite, which is irritability.\\nOur nature is threefold: physical, mental and emotional. Clean-\\nliness of body gives physical peace; contentment gives mental\\npeace; a clear conscience gives peace of heart, the seat of our emo-\\ntional nature. Here is a trinity which is the key of life, and the\\nkey to eternity.\\nIf you do not possess a clear conscience obtain one as soon\\nas possible. It will give you a new birth. Where life now lingers\\nunder the cloud, or on the edge of the storm, it will then come out\\nunder the blue sky, in the open fields, where flowers brighten the\\nway and birds sing to the melody of the heart. The happiness\\nalmost ecstacy of a clear conscience has no parallel in life. It\\nis worth trying for. Will you make the attempt? The process is\\neasy, the way hard. Self-Effort, the first Point of Character, is\\nneeded. Decision and Execution must be used. If your conscience\\nis not clear something makes it so. That something may be found\\nunder the One Hundred Points of Character. The present system\\nwould lack perfection if it did not cover such a case as this, and", "height": "4468", "width": "2960", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n103\\nanswer all the demands of a clear conscience. You can safely\\nmeasure your character by the standard of this system. The cause\\nof a seared conscience, and the removal of that cause, are the only\\nsolutions of the present problem.\\nRequirements. Is your conscience perfectly clear? If so,\\nand it so continues to the end of these lessons, give yourself a\\nrating of one hundred per cent. But before doing that, apply the\\ntest of each one of the One Hundred Points of Character. A per-\\nfect conscience can only exist where the requirements of each Point\\nof Character are properly fulfilled.\\nLosses. For each Point of Character neglected record a loss\\n1 of one mark.\\nLESSON THIRTY-FIVE.\\nTHIRTY-FIFTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nCODE.\\nThirty-fifth Day in the Workshops. Eoad No. 3.\\nIt is not on moral grounds that we present this system of train-\\ning called The School of Character. Eight dealing is a necessity\\nin any civilized country. If we were living in a barbarous land\\nwhere robbery and murder were tacitly permitted, the present\\nlesson could be omitted. After years of toil to secure a home and\\nproperty for the support of ourselves and family there should be\\na reasonable assurance that these would be safely ours against theft\\nand loss. If we strive to win a reputable name it ought not to\\nbe smirched at the will or caprice of others. If the public at large\\nare not in sympathy with a course of right-dealing, we are unsafe\\nin life, property and reputation. Each person forms one in a\\ncommunity. That person s influence is felt by one or more near\\nto him. He can win at least one other to the cause of a healthful\\npublic sentiment, and that one has his influence. So the cause of\\nright may spread. If we are hardened to the question and give\\nit no care or thought, we must not expect more at the hands of\\nthe public than we give.\\nThere comes a time once a year in some lives, and after the\\nblow of some great calamity, when a person sits down in the anguish", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nof his soul and resolves to live by some higher and better standard.\\nMany a noble woman and heroic man has established a little Code\\nwhich furnishes a standard whereby to live. The private lives of\\nsome of the world s greatest characters prove the efficiency of the\\nadoption of this plan. It should be secret. You may show it if\\nyou please, but it is better to treat it as a part of your heart, in-\\nseparably associated with the inner history of your struggles with\\nself.\\nRequirements. At some time between the date of beginning\\nthis lesosn and the final reckoning, you much make a Code.\\nThis Code will furnish simply a standard to live up to, after\\nthese lessons have closed. It is not necessary to practice the Code\\nduring the continuance of the present course, but it should be\\nprepared before the course closes. You are to use your own judg-\\nment and taste in the selection of the subjects to be included in\\nyour Code. It may be long or short, contain one subject or\\nmany, as you prefer. While we do not ask to see it, and have no\\nright to demand such a favor, yet these matters interest us, as they\\ntell us much of the real life of our pupils, and anyone who sends\\na copy of his or her Code to the College will receive an assurance\\nthat the confidence will be held as sacred. After you make the\\nCode attach to it a pledge that you will conscientiously endeavor\\nto live up to its provisions to the best of your ability.\\nLosses. If you make a Code record 100 per cent. If you\\ndo not make it, give yourself a loss of 100 marks.\\nLESSON THIRTY-SIX.\\nTHIRTY-SIXTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nNEWSPAPERS.\\nThirty-sixth and Last Day in the Workshops. Eoad No. 4.\\nThis is the last day in the Workshops, and the lesson will be\\nlonger than usual.\\nThe discussion of the subject should be read in connection with\\nLesson 40, Turning Conversation and also Lesson 44, Gossip\\nNewspapers are a necessity. If rightly prepared and rightly\\nread they may be potent factors in the education of the masses;", "height": "4480", "width": "2968", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n105\\nbut they can have no influence in the higher forms of education,\\nuntil their character is changed. It is even a question whether the\\ninfluence of a paper as an educator is not more than counter-\\nbalanced by its partisan Coloring of nearly all public facts.\\nIn the olden days, many generations ago. a man or woman,\\ngenerally the latter, who had learned something in the way of\\nnews, was the hero or heroine of a small group of listeners, and\\neach member of this group became very soon an important person-\\nage. There were no newspapers. Gossip was the spice of life.\\nNo human being has the power to exactly reproduce any fact or\\nstatement. It is a physical impossibility. As no two words are\\nexact synonyms, and no two tones of voice are alike, it is not within\\nthe power of any human being to tell what he has seen or heard\\nwith precise correctness. So a thing which passes from one to\\nanother receives a change, slight it may be: but the constant\\nrepetitions in time alter the main facts, and somebody s reputation\\nsuffers. Gossip always affects some human soul. Xo news can\\nequal in interest that which injures the reputation of somebody.\\nThe intense interest taken by all humanity in the art of good\\ngossiping led to the establishment of the newspaper. It is what\\nits name implies, It contains all the news, generally without\\nmalice, but always incorrect. Substantially** correct is all they\\nclaim. To test the inaccuracy of a newspaper report is a matter of\\nease, even in the case of the honorable sheets. It would be unjust\\nto blame the paper, for it is dependent on the etforts of the ambi-\\ntious reporter who does his best to make the matter readable, and\\nstartling enough to attract, attention.\\nA newspaper is established to make money. To make money\\nit must be readable. People love gossip, and the newspapers know\\nit. The more gossip, especially of a sensational kind, the paper\\ngives to the public, the more it is read. The nature of the demand\\ncompels the supply. Were it not for the thirsty demand of the\\npublic for liquors, there would be no saloons. The temperance\\nquestion wotdd eventually have to be settled in this way, were it\\nnot for the fact that the new adulterations introduced in beer and\\ndistilled liquors in the last few years, will speedily settle it.\\nAs has been truly said, this is an era of printers ink run\\nmad.* The mind is the acknowledged key of the body, and of all\\nits enjoyment, success, misery or disaster in life; and this key is be-\\ning turned by ten millions of tons of vapid journalism, inane", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "106\\nTHE NEW E DUCAT I OX\\nnovels, empty magazines and rank literature in every possible phase.\\nIf you leave a garden to itself, weeds will throttle out the good and\\nthe beautiful everywhere. The literary field is left to itself, and\\ngrows rank with foul weeds.\\nYou say each reader makes his choice, and can control the\\ngrowth of the garden by what he selects. This might be true if\\nit were true. It is not. Each wanderer in the meadow, each\\nloiterer in the garden may pick what he wishes; but the garden is\\ndeveloping more weeds all the while. His selection is made from\\nwhat he finds; and in making it he always runs the risk of being\\npoisoned through ignorance of the very nature of the things he\\nplucks.\\nThen comes the other fact that humanity itself is a great gar-\\nden of weeds and flowers; but mostly weeds. Liberty as between\\nman and man is best preserved by government. Liberty as between\\nman and his habits is sheer failure, unless he becomes a ruler, and\\nhis inclinations become sternly ruled subjects. Law is the first\\norder; and order is the first law. Left to self, the mental and\\nmoral habits run amuck and fall down in a bed of mire. The age\\nin which we live, the age of printers ink run mad, is an era of\\nungoverned liberty, of rampant license; and there is no control over\\ntastes or habits. There can be but one result, and that is a tre-\\nmendous abundance of weeds. These show themselves first and\\nalways in a debauched feeding of the mind and heart with abnor-\\nmal literature.\\nThe specious claim of publishers that they cater to the tastes\\nof the public is not a justification for so doing. As well might the\\ngardener say that weeds and rank vines grow more readily than roses\\nand tame flowers; and, therefore, he is justified in assisting the\\nweeds to choke out the latter. When a publisher knows that the\\nhuman mind and heart are exactly like gardens, and that weeds\\nalways choke out the desirable growth, he has no right to cater to\\nthe weeds of the mind or the weeds of the morals. Much less right\\nhas he to encourage and stimulate their growth.\\nThe situation may be exactly ascertained if you will plant a\\nbeautiful flower bed and leave it to the impulses of nature for\\nawhile. Go away, come back, and what do you find? Not the\\nbeautiful flowers, but a mass of tangled, poisonous growth, ugly\\nand vicious. Make a garden patch in which to raise vegetables\\nfor the table; set it in the most favorable location, and leave its", "height": "4480", "width": "2960", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n107\\nfuture to itself, nursed by nature and nourished by the elements.\\nAll will run to waste. The mind of intelligent man, and the hand\\nof discriminating culture are necessary in this world if the good\\nwould survive. The question of catering either to the good or the\\nbad does not enter into the matter; it is a fixed principle in which\\nthere are known laws to be observed. The same argument of\\nleaving the drift of public taste to the crowd has been applied to\\nthe theater, as an excuse for the immoral plays that have been in-\\ncreasing so rapidly of late. Curiosity will always draw certain\\nminds in every station of life to the gross and vile; and this is\\ns*een in the large private sale of outlawed literature and pictures\\nthat are doing much to corrupt the young and build up a follow-\\ning for immoral plays and sensational journalism. By the same\\nstandard the houses and gambling dens that are criminal should be\\npermitted to create and cater to the tastes that support them.\\nSeveral attempts have been made to conduct a newspaper on\\nreligious methods, and the failure of such efforts has been pointed\\nto as a proof of the impossibility of conducting a decent sheet. A\\nradical departure from a wrong course to one entirely out of har-\\nmony with the business of a paper is not a proof of anything except\\nstupid judgment. The function of a journal is to present the\\nnews and comments on public affairs; not to advocate either moral-\\nity or its opposite. Everything in its place and for its legitimate\\nend is good reasoning. If a druggist is adulterating his goods he\\ncannot be reformed by being compelled to sell brick buildings; that\\nwould mean to his drug business extermination, not reformation.\\nOne example of the methods of conducting a newspaper for church\\npeople was that of an Eastern concern that was not disposed to\\nprint the news. As a result the people pronounced the scheme a\\nfailure, and other journals refer to the disaster to-day as a reason\\nwhy the press must be sensational in order to exist. The conclu-\\nsion is unwarranted and illogical.\\nIn another case the attempt* was made to run a paper as the\\nDivinity would run it if permitted to do so. This was sacrilege to\\nbegin with. The public have a right to the news of public affairs,\\nand the gathering and publishing of information is a purely secular\\nmatter, just as the administration of business is and should be.\\nReligious journalism may have its place in the world; but it serves\\na higher and far more important function than that of dissemina-\\ntion of information concerning the daily transactions of mankind.", "height": "4480", "width": "2908", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "108\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nLet it have its opportunity; yet keep it on its better plane. Do not\\nseek to draw lessons from failures that prove nothing to the point.\\nThe duty of the secular press is to publish the daily history of\\nhumanity.\\nIn every new idea there is something of value. For instance,\\nthe striking out of sensational details in the recent newspaper ex-\\nperiment was a feature of better journalism. It called for all the\\nfacts without the fulsome description of horrible enlargement to\\nfeed the morbid appetite for gruesome things. New York and\\nBoston are afflicted with the yellow newspapers, which are not\\ncontent to rise above the ripping of throats with huge daggers,\\npictured in every detail with the gashes and their attendant streams\\nof black blood. New York and Boston create their own following\\nin this line, and have slums in abundance in which to circulate the\\nsheets; compelling decent people to accept that kind of journalism\\nor nothing. The former city is blessed with three or four of the\\nbetter papers, whereby the standard of the press is exalted, as it\\nis in the Baltimore Sun and the Washington Star; but Boston,\\nPhiladelphia, Chicago, and other cities of great size are not so\\nsure of finding examples of decent journalism.\\nWhere the newspapers reflect the day s transactions and com-\\npile human history in the legitimate scope of their profession, all\\nother things being equal, they are sure of success in far greater\\nmeasure than when sensationalism rules, and their advertising col-\\numns pay much better. A certain business house makes it a rule\\nto patronize papers whose column headlines do not exceed three-\\nsixteenths of an inch in the height of the largest letters in the news\\ndepartments. They reject all papers having larger type. Why?\\nHere is their experience: We have many times tested this ques-\\ntion. Advertisements put in the sensational press are not read,\\nunless we take a half page or more. Even then they are merely\\nglanced at. We have kept an accurate account of the results, and\\nwe are positively certain that it never pays to advertise in the yel-\\nlow or scare-head newspapers. They live because other business\\nmen have not learned the truth. Where all the interest of the\\nreader is in the sensational news it cannot be expended in any de-\\ngree on the advertisements, and the big type headlines in the news\\ncolumns overshadow all other parts of the paper. Says another\\nconcern: We have carefully canvassed the facts and find that the\\nsuccessful money-making business men do not even read or take the", "height": "4476", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n109\\nyellow* papers, nor allow them in their places of business. You\\nmay judge of a man s value to himself by the kind of newspaper he\\nreads.\\nThere are three kinds of papers that deal in news: First, the\\nHonorable Sheet, which publishes the general news with the bare\\nfacts of sensational matters. Second, the Spicy Sheet, which has\\nno malice, but colors its accounts of gossipy news so as to make\\nthem as delectable as possible. Third, the Blackmailer. The lat-\\nter is apparently fair, and claims to publish the facts only to\\nwarn the public, in the interest of justice and morality. Personal\\nJournalism is a stamp of the Blackmailer. There are forty thou-\\nsand persons paying blackmail every year to these sheets. Very\\nfew care to be exposed to the public, whether innocent or\\nguilty, when a few hundred a year will buy immunity. Should\\nthey refuse to pay, the paper would contain an attack on the private\\nlife of each one of them, knowing that a libel suit would rarely be\\nbrought, or if brought, would be practically futile. Newspaper;?\\nare sufficiently familiar with human nature to know that no man\\nor woman of good character is willing to jeopardize it in a jury\\ntrial where lawyers abuse witnesses and always contort the evidence,\\nand perjury is rampant. The Blackmailing paper carries a retinue\\nof blacklegs who can ruin anybody s life by a well-concocted\\nstory, fabricated for the case.\\nA paper that gossips will find readers. A Blackmailer,\\ntherefore, loves the sensation of a law suit against itself, for it can\\nad libitum attack the private lives of many at one time under the\\nplea of publishing the evidence.\\nYou who may be pursuing this course of study, have perhaps\\nnever had dear friends ruined by the gossip of papers, but the\\nfilth of such publications may some day smirch them, and you.\\nUnder the present system and its concealment, no one is safe.\\nMany of the largest papers in the country, claiming to be respect-\\nable, carry a corps of reporters, among whom are blackmailers, un-\\nknown to the proprietors. The public at large, and you as one of\\nthe people, are to blame for this. The demand controls the supply.\\nPeople always read such gossip, probably before passing to the\\nlegitimate news. Gossiping is not confined to the Blackmailer.\\nAll papers cater to the public taste, while the Spicy Sheet en-\\ndeavors to create and increase the love for gossip.\\nAt a session of the National Bar Association, held recently", "height": "4480", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "110\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nin New York State, one of the Justices of the United States Su-\\npreme Court made this theme the chief topic of his address; and\\nplainly stated that every honest citizen who rose above the masses\\nhigh enough to attract public attention was at the mercy of the\\nyellow journalism of the country, and was helpless to save him-\\nself. This statement, coming from so high an authority, means\\nmuch. The mistake, if it can be called such, began when the\\nconstitution of this nation, made over a century ago, forbade that\\nany law should be enacted that would restrict the freedom of the\\npress. The loose protection permits unprincipled corporations,\\nlike those which own the great papers of New York, Boston, Phil-\\nadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and other metropolitan cities, to\\nlevy blackmail on honest citizens at will, as well as to maintain a\\nstream of foulest sewerage which is poured into the homes of our\\nland. The censorship of the press is the latest and best phase\\nof civilization; but dishonest editors squirm under the wholesome\\nrestriction like a criminal shrinking from the eye of justice; and\\nall public men who execute this censorship are assailed under other\\ncharges, but healthy public opinion sustains the muzzle not only\\non the mad dog but also on the blackmail journalist.\\nThat Ealstonism has executed a power is seen in the results of\\nits advocacy of purer methods in this so-called profession. More\\nthan a million subscribers have withdrawn their patronage from\\nsensational sheets; and advertisements in ratio have been trans-\\nferred to the decent papers. This is the beginning of our work.\\nThe intelligent classes have lost all faith in what they read in the\\ngeneral papers. I don t believe a word of it, is now a common\\nexpression; and the man or woman who is credulous enough to rely\\nupon anything seen in newspapers that run big headlines, is not\\nentitled to rank among the intelligent classes. No such person can\\nbe safely entrusted with duties requiring plain common judgment.\\nThe successful business men of a community do not waste\\ntheir time reading the falsehoods that invariably appear under\\nscare-head type; they know the news is made up in the editorial\\nrooms; and, having a desire for honest reports of the transactions\\nof the world, they seek the truth in the non-sensational papers.\\nThe weak-brained man may be recognized by the kind of paper\\nhe reads, and this rule is always borne out by the facts.\\nThe following is the size of type in use for headlines among\\nthe decent papers of America. Some do not use type even so large.", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n111\\nTAKING THE CENSUS\\nMen Out in All Sections Plying the\\nPeople with Questions.\\nEXPERIENCES OF ENUMERATORS\\nIncidentsand Episodes of Their\\nImportant Missions.\\nTHEY ARE NOT EASY JOBS.\\nIt does not necessarily follow that a paper that keeps within this\\nlimit is a proper sheet for reading, for gamblers and thieves are\\nfound in so. good company as that of church membership; yet it is\\nuniversally true that the users of scare-head type, which is of larger\\nsize than the foregoing, are of the yellow class; and it is amusing\\nto see editorials in their columns devoted to the abuse of yellow\\njournalism. It is the real criminal shouting Stop thief! to di-\\nvert the attention of the multitude. And the canting pretence of\\nthe hypocrite is also seen in the numerous funds 5 for charity\\nwhich some sensational journals parade, to win the respect of the\\ngood people who, if not readers of the sheets, are made to know of\\nthe display by circular notices. In starting a paper, the owner\\nwho had years of experience instructed his editors to run charity\\nmills to please the church people, and to send out quiet notices to\\nprominent persons who were expected to contribute, either fearing\\nthe enmity of the paper or having pleasure in seeing their names\\nin print.\\nNearly all small papers ape their leaders, if they are in-\\nclined to feed the sensational mind; and many little dailies and\\nweeklies that are conducted by shallow-headed men who bite in-\\nnocently at any stuff sent out by the yellow press, are echoes of the\\ncrime without intending to do wrong. Their excuse is that they\\nsaw it in the big papers and supposed it was so. The use of large\\ntype for headlines is notice to all the world that the paper is unfit\\nfor circulation and worthless for advertising purposes. Many of", "height": "4480", "width": "2904", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "112\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nthe weeklies are conducted by men who know enough to discrim-\\ninate and are therefore excellent sheets for the home. All papers\\nshould contain the daily history of events, honestly gathered and\\nfaithfully chronicled. The use of the privilege of the press for\\nmere greed, mere money-getting, mere feeding of the purses of\\ntheir rich owners, was never contemplated by the makers of the\\nconstitution of this republic.\\nRequirements. In order to win a marking of 100 per cent,\\nit is necessary to make the First Iron Clad Promise. As these\\npledges are matters between your good judgment and yourself,\\nthere should be no hesitation in signing every one in the book.\\nOur chief purpose is to increase the army of believers in the purity\\nof home life which cannot exist as long as it is invaded by yellow\\njournalism. A person of weak character will say, I must have the\\nnews, and I must get it in spicy form even if it is all false. The\\ndecent paper seems dull and dry to the indecent mind. The test\\nof character is a fair one. Then comes the evasive Uriah Heap of\\na reader who says, Supposing the paper is not fit to read, I can\\ntake care of myself. I can glance through its columns and pick\\nout what I care for and I am sure that it will not contaminate me,\\nso now, I m not a fool. And the ears rise a fraction of an inch.\\nThis same safe self-protector is seen every night plunged for two\\nhours into a seething mass of sewerage, every word of which is ac-\\ntually believed by him in his little noddle of a brain.\\nThe Iron Clad Promise is too strong for a weak character, and\\nnot strong enough for the great men and women of the world. It\\nhas been signed by hosts in the last ten years; and it has accom-\\nplished a vast amount of good.\\nPledge No. 9.\\nFIRST IRON CLAD PROMISE.\\nHaving carefully read every word of this lesson, and fully ap-\\npreciating the importance of the movement involved, I resolve\\nherewith to lend my aid and influence to the work of suppressing\\nthe evils of sensational journalism; and therefore declare that I\\nwill faithfully abide by the following requirements:\\n1. I will not under any circumstances subscribe for, buy or\\nread any paper or publication that is sensational in its character,", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n113\\nthat uses scare-heads as type-lines above its news articles, or that\\nassails the private character of any person.\\n2. I will not advertise in any paper or publication of the kind\\nreferred to above.\\n,3. I will not patronize or deal with any person or concern that\\nadvertises in such paper, if I have knowledge of the fact.\\n4. I will, as far as opportunity permits, endeavor to induce\\nmy friends and acquaintances not to take such papers, not to ad-\\nvertise in them, nor to deal with those who do advertise in them.\\n5. I will, as far as opportunity permits, call the attention of\\nadvertisers in such papers to the requirements of this promise.\\n6. I will read only the cleanest and purest newspapers that\\nI can procure, even if I am compelled to send out of my own town\\n-or city to obtain them.\\n7. I will read only the legitimate news, and will at once make\\na list of the topics which I consider legitimate, and faithfully ex-\\nclude all others.\\nSigned\\nEemaeks. We suggest as legitimate nezvs the following: 1\\nPolitical gossip. 2 News of the State or Government. 3 Com-\\nmercial transactions. 4 Educational matters. 5 Natural oc-\\ncurrences. 6 Eeports of Conventions, Parades, Celebrations,\\nWars, Weddings, Accidents, Public or Private Calamities and For-\\neign news, when not based on scandal. You may add or expunge\\nwhat you desire.\\nWe recommend that the following be regarded as objection-\\nable news, and not read. If you expunge them from your news-\\npaper reading, we should be pleased to know it:\\nNews Unfit to be Plead.\\n1 Murders. 2 Crimes of all kind. 3 Scandal. 4 The\\ndownfall of any person good or bad, who is not of National or State\\nreputation. 5 Elopements. 6 Superstitions. 7 Execution\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of criminals. 8 Lynching. 9 Detective stories. 10 Attack\\non the private life of any person, whether an official or not. 11\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nPersonals. 12 Foolhardy attempts to perform dangerous feats.\\n13 Ghost stories. 14 Sensational news. 15 Proper news\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2written in a sensational manner. 16 Eeports of court trials in-\\nvolving any of the foregoing.\\nBefore making your list read carefully and make up your mind\\nfirmly, for you will not be permitted to add to the list of legitimate", "height": "4468", "width": "2904", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "114\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nnews from the list of unfit news, although the reverse may be done.\\nThe more limited the legitimate news may be made, the better for\\nyou.\\nLosses. For every time you fail to keep the promise and for\\nevery topic you read which you should not, record a loss of one\\nmark.\\nTriumphs. For every week in which you maintain all the\\nrequirements of the pledge, record a Triumph.\\nThese Triumphs will prove of great value to you as the course\\nprogresses.\\nLESSON THIKTY-SEVEK\\nTHIRTY-SEVENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nATTENTION.\\nFiest Day Out in the World. Eoad No. 1.\\nGood by to the Workshops all four of them. We are start-\\ning on Eoad No. 1, and must make seven stages Out in the World/\\nin contact with our fellow-beings. Off in the distance is the deep\\nValley, down into which we must descend. Its depths are black\\nand uninviting, but far beyond are the sunlit heights, with the\\nwhite walls of the Citadel of Character, too bright for our eyes\\nnow to rest upon, and too far away for the malignant spirits of the\\nworld to attack. The white walls of Character cannot be smirched,\\nif we build our Citadel On the Heights.\\nYou who have traveled thus far and have faithfully performed\\nthe requirements of the lessons taken in the Workshops, should be\\ncongratulated. The work has been hard. The North Wall is be-\\nfore you with seven stages Out in the World, five stages Down\\nin the Depths, three stages On the Heights, and one stage to\\nthe Citadel. On this road you have passed nine stages In the\\nWorkshops. These should be committed to memory in the order\\nin which you traveled them:\\n1. Self-Effort. 4. Health of Body. 7. Automatics.\\n2. Ri ght-Rising. 5. Health of Nerves. 8. Cleanliness.\\n3. Irritability. 6. Exercise. p. Memory.", "height": "4480", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n115\\nThese belong only to Road No. 1. Commit them to memory\\nand recite them aloud every day as a prelude to the Morning Quo-\\ntations. Always commence with No. 1, and repeat them exactly\\nin their order, as a reminder of the stages you have traveled on\\nthis road.\\nYou are now Out in the World. You must learn to acquire\\ncharacter from others, to absorb from all sources: authors, nature\\nand humanity. To do this you should be attentive. A rich fund\\nof information comes from listening. A talker gives, but rarely\\never receives. A listener receives. Weak characters are mind\\nwanderers. This disease is sometimes the forerunner of softening\\nof the brain, and at all times is dangerous. A person generally\\ntalks merely for the purpose of advertising supposed ability and to\\ncreate an impression. What good does it do? There are two oc-\\ncasions on which it is well to talk: first, to convey information\\nunder proper circumstances; second, to be social. Outside of these\\ntwo occasions it is generally futile to use words. Somebody gets\\nweary of you. An empty vehicle rattles. A talker misses oppor-\\ntunities to receive and gain character, and creates the impression\\nthat he has but little. Great talkers are never looked up to.\\nTrained conversationalists may, by right, hold the floor, for they\\nassume the role of lecturers.\\nRequirements. When it is proper to convey information,\\nand when the occasion demands sociability, talk all that is neces-\\nsary and no more. Listen well at all times to proper remarks.\\nNever let the mind wander.\\nLosses. At the end of this course estimate your rank on the\\nbasis of 100 per cent., using your own judgment as to your worth.\\nLESSON THIRTY-EIGHT.\\nTHIRTY-EIGHTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nEASE OF MANNER.\\nSecond Day Out in the World. Road No. 2.\\nYou are now on Road No. 2 moving toward the East Gate\\nof the Citadel. Behind you are the nine stages in the Second\\nWorkshop. These should be committed to memory in their order", "height": "4448", "width": "2940", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "116\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nand recited every morning as a prelude to the Morning Quota-\\ntions\\n1. Absorption.\\n2. Nature.\\n3. Kind Voice.\\n4. Flozvers and Music. Biography.\\n5. Home. 8. Nobility.\\n6. Literature. p. Conscience.\\nThis road is quite different from the others. It leads to an\\nentirely distinct Cardinal Point of Character. We have before\\ncalled it the most delightful of the four journeys.\\nWhat more pleasing sight is there in the social relations of life\\nthan to see a lady or gentleman perfectly at ease. Good presence is\\nalways a mark of character. Grace of body in all its parts from\\nthe carriage of the head to the position and movements of the\\nhands and feet, is an all-important factor in this charming accom-\\nplishment. All persons are born awkward. If grace ever comes as\\na gift it is the result of our associations. We unconsciously imi-\\ntate those whom we admire, and the continual presence of graceful\\npersons will soon cause us to reproduce the same grace in a lesser\\ndegree. The systematic study of grace is the better and shorter\\nmethod. The body should be made supple by taking out all the\\nstiffness and awkwardness. Many persons invent exercises for\\ndoing this. The next step is to decrease the movements of the ex-\\ntremes and confine the power of action as much as possible to the\\ncenter of activity, the chest. This gives every person an ease that\\nis wonderful, and apparently unconscious. To know that we are\\neasy is not good, as it leads to affectation of manner. In the ab-\\nsence of lessons from a living teacher or from a book (and you\\nmay have one in your library on the subject), the best way to ac-\\nquire ease of manner, after becoming graceful, is to imagine your-\\nself in a drawing room where several are seated and others coming\\nin from time to time. You are to practice bowing to the new\\narrivals; being introduced to some who are seated, introducing one\\nto another; conversing w T hile standing and again while sitting; and\\ngoing through a routine practice once a week, unless you have had a\\nteacher or book on the subject.\\nDo not be afraid to practice the pantomime of grace. Others\\ngreater than you have done it. Edward Everett was constantly\\nperforming all possible movements of the body in the presence of a\\nfull-length mirror, using a book on Grace as a guide. The great", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n117\\nFrench actress in her first lesson in grace was made to pick ivp a\\nrose one hundred times.\\nRequirements. Carry out the provisions of this lesson as far\\nas possible.\\nLosses. When you take your final reckoning estimate your\\npercentage of grace and ease in the presence of others, on the basis\\nof 100 per cent. Of course you could not reach perfection unless\\nyou have practiced a great deal. If you meet a loss here, you could\\nmake it up by triumphs in other Points of Character.\\nLESSON THIRTY-NINE.\\nTHIRTY-NINTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nALLY.\\nThied Day Out in the World. Road No. 3.\\nYou are now on Road 3, Out in the World, and making\\nprogress toward the South Gate of the Citadel. Behind you are\\nthe nine stages of progress in the Third Workshop. These should\\nbe committed to memory and recited aloud every morning as a\\nprelude to the Morning Quotations. Do not mix the stages of\\none road with another road.\\n1. Seriousness. d. Sympathy. 7. Execution.\\n2. Decision. 5. Honesty. 8. Completion.\\nj. Retirement. 6. Simplicity. y. Code.\\nHow shall we begin a subject which must have so great a bear-\\ning on the future of each pupil in this, the most important, train-\\ning in his or her life?\\nThe Ally is to prove a blessing if properly chosen. You\\nneed some friend and adviser, some one to go to for counsel in\\ntrouble, for help in distress, for encouragement in hours of gloom,\\nand for aid in these lessons in particular. In Oriental countries\\namong the refined classes a beautiful Order of Two exists. Two\\npersons pledge a life-long friendship under the most solemn oath,\\nand promise to aid each other when disasters, poverty or persecu-\\ntion come; even to the very giving up of wealth and life. Such a", "height": "4480", "width": "2940", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "118\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nfriendship is not required here. But you must procure an Ally\\nas soon as possible, after commencing the first lesson of this course.\\nIt may not be an easy task to do this, for the Rules are strict.\\nThe necessity for having an Ally is to aid you as heretofore\\nstated, in general life, but particularly to assist you in firmly estab-\\nlishing the One Hundred Points of Character. Many faults exist\\nwhich cannot be corrected by your own efforts. A teacher is not\\nnecessary nor valuable. The Ally should be a friend, a personal\\nfriend, of the same sex, one who takes an interest in you and sin-\\ncerely desires to have you master this course of lessons. The rea-\\nson for each Rule will be apparent, or else will be given.\\nRules:\\nRule 1. Do not act hastily. Consider the choice of an Ally\\na sufficient length of time to make sure of a strong personal friend.\\nRule 2. The person must be one for whom you have a pro-\\nfound respect, and whose opinion you are willing to accept.\\nRule 3. While the rules do not forbid the selection of a\\nrelative it is sometimes better to choose a person who is not too fond\\nof you, for the opinion given you by that friend may be too much\\nin your favor. Disinterested good opinions, and friendly correc-\\ntions help us most in life. An Ally will conceal your fault from\\nothers, but not from yourself.\\nRule 4. Your Ally need not be an owner of this course of\\ntraining. If such friend knows the full weight and bearing of this\\ncourse of training, a bond of sympathy must exist in the work.\\nThe Ally must be one who feels from personal experience the same\\nnoble aspirations and desires; one into whose life is wedded the\\nsame glorious resolution to succeed. All others would fail to be in\\ntouch with you. You can afford to wait until such an Ally can\\nbe found.\\nRule 5. The Ally must be a person whom you have invited\\nto be such. The selection must be wholly yours.\\nRule 6. You cannot be the Ally of your Ally, except in a\\nNegative sense. A Negative Ally is one who solicits you; an\\nx\\\\ffirmative Ally is the person solicited. Thus you would be Neg-\\native to your Affirmative; and if some third party should select you,\\nand you accepted the trust, you would be that person s Affirmative\\nAlly, and you would then have to advise and aid such a one in car-\\nrying on the work of these lessons.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n119\\nThe reason why you cannot act as Affirmative Ally to your\\nAffirmative Ally is because such a relation would call for a mutual\\nexchange of opinions. Xo nature is perfect. A teacher cannot\\nteach his teacher and respect him as completely as if the relations\\nwere natural. It would be sad to endanger the permanency of the\\nbond existing between your Ally and yourself. His (or her) critical\\nopinion o*f your faults must have an important bearing on your\\nfinal standing. If the opinion should be given with a knowledge\\nthat you are to give yours in return, such knowledge would color\\nthe interchange, as both parties would desire to stand well. AVe\\nha\\\\e often seen two persons of the most honest character endeavor\\nwith full sincerity to point out the faults and merits of each, and\\nexchange personal opinions; but the feelings were invariably\\nwounded or else nattered. Such a system of friendship cannot\\nexist as long as human nature is as it is. The method we suggest\\nhas been tested these many years and found to be grandly perfect.\\nIt originated from the private life of one of America s greatest\\nstatesmen. Try it, if you wish to know what true friendship is.\\nRule 7. Your Affirmative Ally must accept the trust in\\nwriting.\\nRule 8. Xo final reckoning shall be made until the Affirma-\\ntive Ally has been conferred with.\\nRule 9. The Affirmative Ally must point out to you once a\\nmonth your faults in all the Points of Character as far as you have\\ngone; must give you an opinion monthly of your percentage in such\\nlessons as require an estimate of the judgment to determine them:\\nmust do the same at your final reckoning; -must give you counsel\\nin matters of perplexity; must confer with you by appointment to\\nbe made by you before the fourth day of each month after accept-\\nance of the trust; and, when you are discouraged, must use all rea-\\nsonable means to strengthen your resolution to succeed.\\nMany a happy hour of life could be spent in the sunshine of\\nhis company. [We use the word he, his/ 7 etc., as implying\\ncither sex.] The search for beautiful quotations, for noble\\nthoughts, for good literature: the reading aloud of these lessons;\\nthe comparing of records; all these would afford an opportunity\\nfor mutual growth. We live in the past and future, never in the\\npresent. Our life is made up of anticipating the years to come,\\nand contemplating those we have spent. Our present is a period\\nof history-making rolling the future into the past. The more", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "120\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nwe live in the past the happier is our lot, if that be noble, pure and\\ngood. In the society of your Ally, each bonded in an unsenti-\\nmental but solid friendship for the other, clasping hands with an\\nhonest pressure, enter solemnly upon a series of meetings that shall\\nmake your future a delightful memory when time shall roll it into\\nthe past.\\nIn some such meeting read aloud, by turns, the present chap-\\nter, and if one of you has not yet signed the following pledge, do\\nso in the presence of the other:\\nBOND OF FRIENDSHIP.\\nPledge No. 10.\\nI solemnly promise myself that I will comply with all the\\nforegoing Rules in every particular, whenever I shall become an\\nAffirmative Ally to another; that I will not in any case perform\\nthe duties, or any part thereof, of an Affirmative Ally to the per-\\nson who may be my Affirmative Ally; that I will not permit my\\nNegative Ally nor any other person to perform the duties of an\\nxlffirmative Ally to me under any circumstances; that I will see\\nthat my Negative Ally meets or corresponds with me once every\\nmonth, commencing as soon as this bond of friendship is made;\\nthat I will make an appointment with and meet or correspond with\\nmy Affirmative Ally likewise; that in our meetings no .other person\\nshould be present, excepting any one who is a Record Pupil of the\\nSchool of Character; that I will examine the records of my\\nNegative Ally, and if they are not properly or sufficiently filled out,\\n1 will advise him as to the better compliance with the provisions of\\neach lesson; that I will not jokingly refer to any topic or matter\\nconnected with this course of training, and will not permit (if pos-\\nsible to prevent it), any flippant or trifling remarks in my presence\\ntending to bring this friendship into ridicule; that I will not be-\\ntray to others any counsel or confidence occurring between myself\\nand either Ally, as long as I live, subject, however, to the law of\\nthe land and the rules of nff religion.\\nThe foregoing pledge will be as effectual if signed before the\\nselection of an Ally as if signed after.", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n121\\nLESSON FOETY.\\nFORTIETH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nTURNING CONVERSATION.\\nFourth Day Out in the World. Eoad No. 4.\\nYou are now on Eoad 4, endeavoring to reach, the West Gate\\nof the Citadel of Character. Behind you are nine stages in the\\nFourth Workshop. These should be committed to memory and re-\\ncited aloud in their exact order as a prelude to the Morning Quo-\\ntations It is not necessary to recite the stages of all four roads\\nevery day ,but those only which belong to the road on which, you\\nmay be traveling on that day:\\n1. Ambition. 4. Tact. 7. Respect.\\n2. Conquer Failure. 5. Superstition. S. Sabbath.\\n5. Examine Discouragement. 6. Thought Control, p. Newspapers.\\nIn this lesson we have the second Iron Clad Promise. It deals\\nwith gossip, that reptile of human nature which no system of train-\\ning has yet eradicated. Yet we know of noble characters who re-\\nfuse to read the sensational news of the press, and who constantly\\ncarry out the provisions of the three Iron Clad Promises. Such\\npersons are few. It is our .purpose to make a life-effort to fight\\ndown Gossip. We love to learn all the news and is it not true\\nthat, if some person has won a little more success in life than our-\\nselves, we hear with sadness mingled with a slight very slight\\ntinge of satisfaction, of any reproach upon his character? At\\nleast we want to hear the news. If he is a rascal, if she is not\\npure, it is our duty to know the facts and be on our guard. Such\\nis the specious excuse which satisfies us that it is right to listen to\\ngossip. A good excuse can be found to satisfy every desire. As\\nlong as this process of reasoning is allowed to influence us we shall\\nlisten to gossip; and gossip will go on cursing homes, blasting repu-\\ntations, making crime, causing suicides, and depleting character.\\nMen and women of character will not speak ill of another, and will\\nnot permit even a criminal to be abused. This course of conduct\\nthey pursue from principle and not from habit. The records of", "height": "4480", "width": "2948", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "122\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nthe private lives of these noble people are permeated with this\\ngreat trait of character. From the lofty purity of such persons\\nthere is a sliding scale of increase down through the meaner na-\\ntures of so-called non-gossipers who advertise the fact that\\nthey never speak ill of another to the bawdy-house brothel\\nwhere gossip and cheap abuse fill the atmosphere.\\nA person familiar with human nature and the common rules\\nof evidence, founded on natural logic, could, by examining an\\nabusive bit of gossip, discover its improbability and grossness; but\\npeople are too ready to believe a falsehood. Truth has no travel-\\ning power. It rises by virtue of the law of purity, and can be seen\\nonly when we look up. Falsehood skims along the earth on myriad\\nlegs. It cannot rise, and as our baser natures refuse to look up to\\nsearch for truth, we can see only the lie.\\nA woman who can conquer the habit of gossip and listening\\nto it is entitled to greater credit than man. We say this solemnly.\\nIt is not our purpose to disparage the sex; but all fair-minded peo-\\nple will admit that there is a class of women, whose occupation,\\nhabits and inclination make it easier for them to indulge in gossip\\nthan for a man engaged in business. Yet a man situated as these\\nwomen are, would yield to the same temptation. The author once\\nspent a vacation in a little village; and there heard a woman spend\\nten hours daily during his entire stay in discussing her neighbors,\\nand always to their disadvantage. She inveigled women into her\\nhouse and lost no time in getting all the news and telling it.\\nFrom Mrs. A. she learned certain facts which she increased two-\\nfold in repeating to Mrs. B., and so on. Nearly all gossip com-\\nmences by praise for the intended victim. Beware of the person\\nwho uses excessive praise. There s a store-house of abusive gossip\\nthere. The most dangerous lie is one associated with a truth.\\nGossipers love to convince. So they grow astute as their tongues\\nare sharpened, and very shrewdly present a truth to impress a lie.\\nA gossiper with a motive always lies. If one person has an interest\\nin the downfall of another gossip is quickly fabricated, with not a\\nword of truth in the whole of it.\\nMany snaky gossipers adopt an old-time method of abuse by\\npretending not to believe a certain fact which they tell. I heard\\nso and so [here they tell it all], but of course I do not believe it.\\nSuch a person could not be so bad. This kind of a gossiper is the\\nmost dangerous, for the dishonesty is double and the snaky disposi-", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "OXE HUXDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n123\\ntion concealed, like a serpent in ambush. A profound contempt\\nfor such persons, openly shown, is the only remedy.\\nAnother kind are too cowardly to speak out, but do what is\\nworse. They oh! a thing or ah! it, in such a way as to leave\\nthe impression that something very bad might be told. Stamp\\nthem as cowards.\\nYou are now about to be called upon to take a step in life that\\nmay be difficult. We hope it shall prove easy. We are determined\\nto fight this evil, and consider it the worst in the nature of man or\\nwoman. It cannot be suppressed by easy means. Heroic treat-\\nment is necessary. By our system of Allies and Chains of In-\\nfluence we are going to sweep the country with the power of this\\ngreat work. Back of it are men and women pledged to push this\\nsystem to the front. We need your help. Will you give it? Are\\nyou in earnest\\nThe Iron Clad Promise is of the strongest kind. It is in-\\ntended to be effectual. Make up your mind slowly, and then bring\\nto the test your strength of character for Decision and Execution.\\nPledge No. 11.\\nSECOND IKON CLAD PEOMISE.\\nI, the undersigned, being firmly convinced that gossip is a\\nspecies of depravity, and that it is encouraged and allowed to\\nflourish by being listened to, hereby pledge my sacred honor that\\nI will carry out the following provisions of this promise:\\n1. I will not participate in any conversation where gossip is\\ngoing on.\\n2. If in doubt as to whether a conversation is gossipy or not\\nI will take the benefit of the doubt for the suppression of it.\\n3. I will first seek to turn the conversation to some other\\nsubject by interrupting it at the first opportunity and assuming\\ncontrol of the conversation; and if no such opportunity shall occur,\\nI will turn the subject at all hazards.\\n4. I will prepare myself with proper subjects of conversation\\nto use in such an emergency.\\n5. I will, when alone with any person who persists in gossip,\\npleasantly but firmly tell him that I am under pledge not to engage\\nin, or listen to gossip of any kind, or that such is my wish.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "124\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\n6. I will endeavor in my small circle of influence to advance\\nthe cause of this battle against gossip by enlisting pupils into the\\nSchool of Character.\\n7. I will daily make in this book a record of success or failure\\nas to the first five provisions of this promise.\\nRequirements. The signing in ink and observance of the\\nforegoing pledge is insisted upon.\\nLossES.-^For every failure to carry out the provisions of the\\nforegoing pledge, record a loss of two marks.\\nTriumphs. In case it becomes unusually difficult to change\\nthe subject, and you finally succeed in so doing; and also in case you\\nare obliged to leave the room or place where the gossip is going on;\\nrecord a triumph of two marks. If you express to a gossiper\\nyour disapproval, record a triumph of two marks. If you win any\\ngossiper into the School of Character/ record a triumph of one\\nhundred marks.\\nFor the definition of gossip, see Lesson 44.\\nLESSON FORTY-ONE.\\nFORTY-FIRST POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nINFLUENCE.\\nFifth Day Out in the World. Road No. 1.\\nA person would be very weak indeed who did not possess some\\ninfluence over others. Some can frighten, some coax, some com-\\nmand and others draw their fellow-beings into the circle of their\\ninfluence. This power over others is sometimes the means of mak-\\ning or marring the whole career of those who are guided by it. A\\nwife may be the ruin or fortune of her husband, were she to develop\\na strength of character equal to the possibilities that lie within her;\\nand so may the husband guide the wife.\\nThe training afforded by the One Hundred Points of Charac-\\nter should be insisted upon by every young lady before giving her\\nhand in marriage to her future husband; and we assert that if", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n125\\nevery married couple should pass through this course of training\\nthere zvould never be another divorce in the land.\\nIf we feel consciously stronger than, those about us, our in-\\nfluence should be exerted very carefully. If we are frivolous or\\nflippant, or if we use slang, they imitate these things, especially as\\nthey come from one whom they look to for guidance. Many things\\nthat are not wrong per se should, nevertheless, be avoided first in\\nourselves, and second before others.\\nThe future citizen, and the future mother (one the country s\\npower, the other the queen of home) are before us in childhood\\nnow; and their lives are being shaped by the influences that sur-\\nround them. It is a weak character that will use unfit language or\\nindulge in ill-bred conduct before a person who is in the pliability\\nof youth. Nobility may be acquired by seeking to influence a per-\\nson to a better condition; or higher ambition in life.\\nThe failures of so many in the great struggle for success are\\ndue in a large measure to their inability to resist temptation.\\nTemptation comes from two sources: 1 Solicitation. 2 Cir-\\ncumstances. Of the latter we shall speak in a subsequent lesson.\\nAs the fall of so many can be traced to their yielding to the solici-\\ntation of others, who are their tempters, the consequences, which\\nare often terrible, lie at the tempter s door.\\nDid you ever ask a fellow-being to do a thing that was wrong?\\nYou took from yourself a large share of your self-respect in so\\ndoing; and you lost some of your friend s regard for you. Character\\nis not builded in this way.\\nBequirements. You must never tempt another to do wrong;\\nif you have any doubt as to what is wrong, give the benefit of it to\\nthe right. Take no chances. The moral questions of gambling and\\ndrinking alcoholic liquors you may settle in your own mind your\\nown way, according to the dictates of your conscience; but under\\nthese requirements you must never ask any person to do either.\\nUse your influence to do good. In the presence of persons over\\nwhom you may have influence, always carry yourself according to\\nthe One Hundred Points of Character.\\nLosses. For every failure record a loss of one mark.\\nTriumphs. For every time you exert a good influence over\\nanother record a gain of one triumph.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "r\\n126 THE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON FOKTY-TWO.\\nFORTY-SECOND POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSOCIABILITY.\\nSixth Day Out in the Wokld. Eoad No. 2.\\nThe art of good conversation and good manners will render a\\nperson properly social. Subject to the limitations of the lesson on\\nattention all persons should be duly social. It is an art capable\\nof the highest cultivation. Weak characters do not know how to\\nentertain unless the wine is brought out. Shallow minds talk by\\nthe hour of the weather, personal ills, politics, shop, and similar\\nsubjects, which a fertile mind excludes from good conversation.\\nThe art of sociability comes slowly to a person, and we cannot\\nexpect you to acquire it in one year. All may win success in this\\nspecies of refinement by careful attention to their conversation and\\nmanners; and by having a storehouse filled with general knowl-\\nedge drawn from good literature.\\nWhen the occasion requires that you fill the capacity of\\nlistener, it is unnecessary to assist in entertaining. Attention is all\\nyou need give. But a retirement that attracts attention, a crisp\\nmanner of reply, a cool reserve that is both unnatural and offensive\\nborder too much on the disrespectful.\\nSociability is generous; the lack of it is selfish. A stranger\\nneeds an encouraging smile and a welcome grasp of the hand when-\\never he visits your locality or enters your church for the first time.\\nIndications of friendly feeling bring out the good in a man, while\\na cool reserve often unfolds the meaner nature. Having due re-\\ngard for etiquette, it is greatly to your credit to lighten the burdens\\nof life for all around you by a pleasant word, a kind smile, a friend-\\nly chat, or any evidence of kindly feeling and interest. It costs\\nnothing, it develops the better side of your fellow-beings, and it\\nmakes character for you.\\nThere is too little Sociability in the world. Selfishness is the\\nforemost element of human nature. Sociability develops generosity;\\nit is generosity itself, and a species of favor that is inexpensive.\\nThe more we give away the more we have left.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n127\\nThe human race should be bound together by one cord\\naffection. -A lesser degree of love, yet a potent factor in lessening\\nsin, is this undercurrent of affection with which all mankind should\\nbe made one.\\nKeqttirements. After being satisfied that you understand\\nthe rules of etiquette, and have acquired good manners, easy ad-\\ndress, and judgment, it is better to form the habit of making your-\\nself pleasant to all, upon all occasions. It requires a little nearer\\napproach to dignity in dealing with children than with older peo-\\nple, but you should make yourself a part of the life of each and\\nevery person you meet Study to do it.\\nLosses. At the time of the final reckoning form an estimate\\nof yourself on the basis of 100 per cent, and record your rank ac-\\ncordingly.\\nLESSON FOKTY-THKEE.\\nFORTY-THIRD POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSINCERITY.\\nSeventh Day Out m the Would. Eoad No. 3.\\nThe present lesson does not deal with the question of honesty.\\nThat is a positive wrong. So deception of any kind is to be avoided.\\nBut there is a species of indiscretion, not absolutely wrong in\\nitself, but calculated to lead to subsequent evils. It often enters\\nthe border land of dishonesty; and at times has misled persons,\\nthough without the intention of so doing.\\nIt is a common practice to joke by making statements which\\nare untrue; merely to produce fun, often at the expense of another.\\nThe untruths are, of course, always explained before the party\\nbreaks up. Boasting, at times, is harmless as far as its breach of\\nhonesty is concerned, but its enlargement of facts is injurious both\\nto the character and reputation of the boaster.\\nAll persons love to picture certain events to their own ad-\\nvantage. This is exaggeration, but cannot be called dishonesty, in\\nits milder degrees. It weakens our self-respect and relegates us to\\na place of unpopularity in the opinion of others; neither of which\\ncan be afforded. Insincerity stamps itself upon the face with un-", "height": "4472", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "128\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2erring certainty. It colors the voice; for spoken words always re-\\nflect in their tones the standard of our character. A stream can\\nrise no higher than its head. An orator gets to the level of his\\ncharacter in speaking his words, no matter how much beauty, ex-\\ncellence of style, or solidity of thought may be contained in the\\nwritten composition. Nor can a reader or reciter put more into a\\nselection than his own character contains; although quoting beauti-\\nful thoughts aloud, the first thing on arising, in the morning, will\\ncause us to absorb them, and thus develop character rapidly, if we\\nfeel them.\\nThe more personality, or strength of character, we can build,\\nthe better we can speak or recite.\\nIt is on this principle that insincerity colors the voice and\\nquickly exposes us to the detestation of the world. You, perhaps,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0are not aware of the disregard which many people have for you.\\nThe flattery of friends is the most dangerous of all criticisms.\\nEequieements. Never tell a falsehood even in joke. Never\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2exaggerate; nor underestimate. Be exactly right. Never overrate\\nnor underrate yourself to others. Both are wrong. Never boast\\nat any time. Tell no stories, nor anecdotes that involve untruths,\\n-even if the falsehood is too apparent to deceive the smallest child.\\nThe monstrous exaggerations of some writers and anecdote-tellers\\nproduce merriment of a low order. If people laugh, they do it for\\npoliteness. The true element of humor is lacking. Surprise, only,\\nis earned; and that is exhausted after the first story.\\nBe sincere at all times. Tell facts as they are, with no varia-\\ntion, whether in earnest or in fun.\\nLosses. For each breach of the foregoing requirements, how-\\never slight, record a loss of one mark.\\nLESSON FOHTY-FOUK.\\nFORTY-FOURTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nGOSSIP.\\nEighth Day Out m the World. Eoad No. 4.\\nThe grave error of reading gossip is discussed in the lesson de-\\nvoted to Newspapers", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n129\\nThat of listening to gossip is disposed of under the title of\\nTurning Gossipy Subjects.\\nThe meanest of all traits of character is the inborn, and al-\\nmost ineradicable, disposition to speak, listen to, or read, gossip.\\nThe speaking of it is the worst of the three modes of keeping it\\nactive. If no one spoke it, the sin would vanish. These lessons\\nare arranged to attack it on three sides; and your aid is invoked in\\neach and all of these attacks. You are pledged not to read nor\\nlisten to it. The final of the three Iron Clad Promises is given in\\nthis lesson. Before signing it, you should know just what you are\\ndoing.\\nDefinition. Spoken Gossip consists of a discussion of the\\nprivate acts of some person not present to defend against it.\\nIt is an attack behind the back, and always bears the stamp of\\ncowardice.\\nNo generous person will do it. No person will do it who is\\nnot a coward. Every person who so discusses the private acts of an-\\nother, not present to defend against it, is stooping to the meanest\\nphase of cowardice.\\nIt makes no difference whether the facts are favorable or un-\\nfavorable to the victim who is being slaughtered, the discussion of\\nthe private life of any person is gossip. In the first place it is no\\none s business. In the second place it conveys no information of\\nvalue to any one. In the third place it is wasting the time of your-\\nself and of somebody else. In the fourth place it is meddling in\\nother s aff\u00c2\u00b0irs of no concern to you, which, if discovered, may in-\\nvolve you in trouble. In the fifth place it brings you down in\\ncharacter, making you appear weak to yourself and untrustworthy\\nto others.\\nThe difference between gossiping and speaking ill of another\\nis this: Gossiping is any reference to the private life of a person;\\nspeaking ill of another is any remark derogatory to the public or\\nprivate life of a person.\\nBy public life is meant the holding of an office by virtue of-\\nelection by the people. Campaign lies are so frequent and the im-\\npossibility of their denial so complete that they will stay with us as\\nlong as we have the present system of selecting candidates. Yet no\\npolitician has a right to aid in circulating damaging rumors until\\nhe personally knows of their truth. What would be evidence in\\ncourt should be evidence on the stump. The nobler statesmen", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "130\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nnever descend to this business. A man is dishonest and unsafe to\\nvote for, who makes a personal attack upon the character of the op-\\nposing candidate. He cannot possibly know the truth of it. The\\nvoter who wishes to do a service to his country, as well as lend a\\nsilent influence to a great cause, should refuse to vote for a man\\nwho maligns another. As a rule the candidate who is the most\\nseverely attacked is the safest man to support. Malice can do more\\ninjury to purity than to villainy. AYe do not insist upon any of\\nthese things, nor is it required of you to refrain from speaking ill\\nof any public official who holds his office by election.\\nYou have no right to speak ill of an official who is appointed;\\nfor a higher power is responsible for his misdeeds. There can be\\nno appeal to the people. If you personally know of any offense\\nwhich should deprive him of his office it is your duty to prefer\\ncharges in writing to the removing power. The presentment of\\ncharges in this way will subject you to criminal prosecution if they\\nare false, and him to removal if they are true.\\nYou must not speak ill of any employer, or employe, of any\\nbusiness man or woman, of any person in any rank in life, rich or\\npoor.\\nIf you know a business man is dishonest, you and your family\\nand such relatives as are dependent upon you may be told of it.\\nBut hearsay is not knowledge. If a friend of the purest honesty\\nshould tell it to you it is better, on general principles, not to believe\\nit even then. Motive colors all feelings, and honesty is the most\\nsusceptible to the coloring of incorrectness. In court the gravest\\nfalsehoods are told by the most innocent persons, and are open to\\ndetection; whereas perjurers concoct a story out of nothing, and\\nstate it so uniformly that detection is impossible. It is safer not\\nto believe a thing you do not personally know to be true, especially\\nif it is a damaging story.\\nPersons trying to live good lives are most subject to malignit} r\\nfrom the world at large. Even clergymen cannot escape it. The\\nmost serious evil in church matters is the frequency of gossip\\namong members, generally bearing upon the doings of the pastor.\\nIf this course of lessons could be made a secular code for the gov-\\nerning of the private life of each member, there would be no gossip\\nand gossipers to render the poor man miserable. As it now is he\\nhas but little peace, for every act (both open and private) of his life\\nduring the 365 days of the year is made the subject of gossip. As", "height": "4480", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n131\\nhe is there to administer to the wants of his flock they imagine tha,t\\nhis life must yield to the individual wishes of each and every one,\\nso they take advantage of him. If he is independent he makes open\\nenemies; if he yields to one he runs the risk of antagonizing an-\\nother. This starts a quiet feeling 5 which preys upon all he does,\\nand he is thereupon discussed. Nearly all open church troubles are\\nstarted by gossip, and many a smouldering fire is found among the\\nchurch members which could not exist if there were no gossip.\\nSocieties, organizations, friendships, love matters are often dis-\\nrupted by the slanderous tongues of some vile meddler. The records\\nevery year, in the United States alone, show scores of murders\\nresulting from quarrels based on slander. There are thousands\\nupon thousands of reported cases of slander and libel. All this is\\ndue to an evil tongue.\\nIt may be saf ely alleged that there never was an instance where\\nspeaking ill of another has done any real good. Persons have been\\nsaved from dire evils, all of course imaginary, by being warned of\\nsome villain; but when the! cases are fully examined, and all the\\nafter-results known, it will be found to have been useless; except\\nwhere the person warned was mentally weak. The relation of\\nparent, or pastor, or close family conversation, should give the\\nright to warn; hut not otherwise. Warning 55 is made a frequent\\nexcuse for circulating ill of others.\\nGossip has more excuses and more plausibilities to support it\\nthan any other sin. If some rigid system is not enforced it will be\\nimpossible to know where to draw the line. Character is more\\nvaluable than all else in life, and reputation stands next. The latter\\nis often assumed having no true foundation; and is often ruined.\\nA noble character cannot be ruined by slander, but its reputation\\nmay. The virtue of many an innocent girl has been attacked by\\nthe biting tongue of a prostitute, whose own name goes untouched.\\nFrom many years of observation and from the collected experience\\nof a score of observers, it seems to be a settled fact, as much as a\\nfact can be settled in this way, that the assailants of virtue in a man\\nor woman are libertines or prostitutes. No woman or man whose\\npast lives have been virtuous ever attacked the virtue of another.\\nEvery time you hear a man attack virtue, you will be safe in\\nputting him down a libertine; and every time you hear a woman\\nattack virtue you may put her down a prostitute; and you will not\\nmake a mistake in either case. This theme is to-day, and always", "height": "4480", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "132\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nhas been, the most frequent source of gossip. Its results are the\\nmost deadly. If, every time you hear such a charge made, you\\nshould reply I have good authority for saying that every person\\nwho makes such a charge is guilty of the same offense, the gossips\\nwould quickly drop it, except the most abandoned.\\nThe guilty are rarely ever attacked unless they are the brazen-\\nfaced wantons plying their trade; and, excepting this class, the as-\\nsailed persons are rarely ever guilty, as charged.\\nIn the hope that, by the effort of your Ally united to your\\nown firm resolution to support this movement, a complete reform\\nmay be made, and the world may become happier, we present the\\nthird Iron Clad Promise, knowing that you will agree with us that\\nit must be very stringent, or it will fail.\\nPLEDGE NO. 12.\\nTHIED IKON CLAD PEOMISE.\\nBelieving the sin of Gossip to be the most prevalent and most\\ndamaging of all sins, both to character and mankind, and desiring\\nto aid in its suppression, I cheerfully obligate myself to the follow-\\ning promise, which I solemnly agree to perform in each and every\\nparticular:\\nI will daily make a record in this book of every success and\\nfailure.\\nI will not speak ill of any person under any circumstances,\\nexcept under due process of law as a witness. (Here you may re-\\nserve the right to warn any member of your family, provided you\\nhave personal knowledge of the offense.)\\nI will not discuss the private life of any person.\\nI will not excessively praise any person.\\nI will not by look or sound, or any sign or action, help to con-\\nvey the impression that I know ill of another.\\nI will to the best of my ability keep a constant watch on my\\nactions and guard my tongue, so as to carry out the suggestions\\nof this lesson.\\nLosses. Two hundred days compliance with the foregoing\\n(one hundred of which must be consecutive), shall be necessary to", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n133\\npass 100 per cent. For every day omitted in the two hundred days,\\nrecord a loss of three marks.\\nTriumphs. Whenever an unusually strong temptation to\\nyield to the speaking of an ill-remark shall be overcome after a hard\\nstruggle, record a triumph of three marks.\\nLESSON FOKT Y-FIVE.\\nFORTY-FIFTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSECRETIVENESS.\\nNinth Day Out in the World. Road No. 1.\\nThere are things in life that should not be told. The convey-\\ning of information for proper purposes where some end is to be\\ngained is often a necessity; but there aire instances occurring in\\neveryday life where secretiveness is a virtue.\\nThe details of a man s business should never be told by an em-\\nploye, whether the employer demands secrecy or not. A principle\\nis here involved. The business is that of the employer and not of\\nthe employe, and the latter has no right to tell it. Neither does it\\nsound well for a business man to tell how he transacts business, nor\\nto disclose any of the secrets of the trade.\\nA married person shows ill-judgment to take any person on\\nearth into the secrets of his or her home. The tender and sacred\\nconfidences of the marriage relation are protected by law and\\nshould be guarded by the parties with solemn care. For the hus-\\nband to disclose to his friends, or the wife to tell her mother or\\nlady friends of the interchange of secrets, is grossly wrong; but it\\noccurs altogether too often.\\nIf a friend confides any trouble or other matter in your keep-\\ning it is an evidence of undeveloped character to tell it to your\\nother friend, even in confidence. It makes no difference whether\\nyou have been requested or not to keep it secret; it is your duty to\\nhold it. No person could be weaker than one who has to be asked\\nto not tell.\\nHow beautiful and grand is that confidence which comes from\\nknowing that anything said is kept sacred. Yet if you ever promise", "height": "4468", "width": "2928", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "134\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nnot to tell, nothing should ever wrest the secret from you, except\\na court of law.\\nThe question sometimes arises, What shall I do if I am\\npresent at some wrong doing Shall I tell that If it is a crime\\nand you tell it to any one, you should first report it to the police;\\nfor the law makes it an offense to conceal an offense and you are\\nliable to punishment for the concealment. This, however, is never\\nenforced and is practically obsolete. The better way in the case of\\nminor offenses is to use your judgment, looking some way ahead at\\nall the consequences.\\nRequirements. Form the habit of secretiveness in accord-\\nance with the foregoing suggestions.\\nLosses. At the time of making the final reckoning estimate\\nyour rank on the scale of 100 per cent.\\nLESSON FORTY-SIX.\\nFORTY-SIXTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nCOMPARISON.\\nTenth Day out in the World. Road No. 2.\\nComparisons are odious. They are mistakes.\\nThe creations of enmities unnecessarily tend to embitter life.\\nWhen once we lose all faith in mankind and our sympathy turns to\\nhatred we become misanthropes, a class of forlorn beings who play\\nno part in the history of life. Unnecessary enmities show a lack of\\ntact, of good management.\\nIf a person does a thing well tell him so, but do not enlarge\\nor decrease it. Learn the knack of telling a thing exactly as it is.\\nIf he does it poorly do not venture an opinion, unless asked, in\\nwhich case tell the truth, if alone; and if not, ask to see him alone.\\nBe as frank and honorable about it as you would like to have a true\\nfriend be with you.\\nBut whatever you say do not compare your friend with another\\nperson. It is pure flattery of a dangerous kind to* make a person be-\\nlieve that he is the equal or greater than another, if that other be\\nrenowned; and if the comparison is disadvantageous it should for\\nthat reason be avoided.", "height": "4472", "width": "2872", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n135\\nIf you play any game or enter into any contest and win, do\\nnot boast of it or mention it in the presence of the defeated party.\\nIf asked by any one in his presence refer the inquirer to your op-\\nponent. If you are defeated it is manly to be the first to tell it;\\nand do not offer any excuse or theories to account for the defeat.\\nNever parade your superiority over any person; nor compare\\nthe inferiority of another with yourself or others.\\nFrom time immemorial it has been considered obnoxious to in-\\ndulge in comparisons. They often involve an innocent third party.\\nTo say that Mr. A. is as awkward as Mr. B., or no brighter than\\nMr. C, or as talented as Mr. D., is a species of gossip. Mr. B.\\nmight hear of his awkwardness, Mr. C. might object to his dullness,\\nand Mr. D. might feel insulted to be put on a par with Mr. A.\\nYou cannot imagine a comparison to another that would not\\noffend the other.\\nRequirements. Avoid making any comparisons of any kind\\nwhatever where one person is estimated by another s standard.\\nLosses. At the final reckoning place an estimate on your\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2character in this respect on the basis of 100 per cent.\\nLESSON FORTY-SEVEN\\nFORTY-SEVENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nDETAILS.\\nEleventh Day Out in the World. Road No. 3.\\nIf greatness of character and greatness of the more general\\nTvind were to be traced to one trait, the present lesson would proba-\\nbly furnish it. Genius is lazy when not guided by tact. In this age\\ngenius is never sought after. There is a slight hatred for it. Its\\ntwo chief characteristics are conceit and laziness. Tact wins all the\\nbattles of life; genius sits on a cold rock enthroned in obscurity.\\nThe union of the two makes greatness. Genius hates details and\\nwork of all kinds. Tact leads genius into the workshop, and there\\nbatters his head, pounds his body and breaks him up generally.\\nThe little details are ignored by unsuccessful people, but tact\\nuses them.", "height": "4480", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "136\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nA great singer, when a student, went to take a long course of\\nlessons requiring years of study. Nothing but the scale was given.\\nIt was sung in every possible manner until, disgusted at years of\\ntime apparently wasted, she asked: When am I to sing? She was\\nnot aware that the thorough training in the details of her art had\\nmade her a complete singer.\\nEdwin Booth once asked his father for advice as to his studies,\\nand was substantially told to master the details or elements of the\\nfoundation of the art.\\nThe details are the important parts of the whole structure. At-\\ntention to them wins success. No person can leap the valley in life\\nand rise to the summit without climbing. True genius, that is the\\nkind that wins victory, is always wedded to tact, and tact never\\ntakes chances. It loves hard work. Some great man once said\\nthat the genius of hard work was the only real genius in life. Some\\nmen work very hard and persist in it against obstacles for years,, but\\nbring no results, for they ignore the details that make up success.\\nAn elocutionist once said that he had practiced six hours daily\\nfor years, and had worked very faithfully all the time. But on being\\nasked the nature of his practice said he had recited aloud, studied\\nthe thought and tried to manage his voice so as to give each thought\\nthe correct expression. But he had never practiced one vocal ex-\\nercise, had never studied the principles that underlie emphasis, and\\nknew nothing of the many hundreds of details that make up good\\ndelivery.\\nYet a person becomes a good elocutionist from studying noth-\\ning but details; which, when mastered, make a complete talent,\\neven before a single piece is taken for recitation.\\nRequirements. Never neglect the slightest details. Estab-\\nlish a habit of searching for the small factors that make up the\\ngreat whole, and learn the art of perf ecting them.\\nLosses. At the time of your final reckoning estimate your\\nrank on the basis of 100 per cent.", "height": "4480", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n137\\nLESSON FOKTY-EIGHT.\\nFORTY-EIGHTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nCRITICISM.\\nTwelfth Day Out in the World. Eoad No. 4.\\nIt is neither a mark of good taste nor of character to volunteer\\na criticism of another. If asked for an opinion it should be ren-\\ndered in accordance with the provisions of the lesson on Gossip.\\nThe efforts of another to do well should be left to stand or fall\\non their merits. Favorable criticism, if false, may do harm by foster-\\ning upon the world a class of people who are too conceited to think\\nfailure possible, and too lazy to work out the details of success.\\nThe better rule of conduct seems to be this: whenever the person\\napparently belongs to the class named the benefit of any doubt as to\\nthe person s merits should be given to silence. But when diffidence\\nand lack of self-confidence are present and seem to retard the pro-\\ngress of the person it is well to give encouraging words, but never\\nfalsely. An opinion is often elastic, and honestly variable.\\nThe habit of criticising at places of amusement should never be\\nindulged in, except publicly by the usual means of applause*. To\\npass an opinion on the merits or demerits of a speaker, reader,\\nsinger, or actor, either during the time, at intervals, or after, is evi-\\ndence of conceit that is inconsistent with a solid character. In the\\nfirst place the men and women who occupy the highest places in our\\nestimation never indulge in this criticism. They show their ap-\\nproval at the place by giving or withholding applause; and if asked\\nafterward speak their mind in a few well-chosen words. To say,\\nsuch a person or thing is splendid or horrid, or to go into de-\\ntails of opinion, is useless and frivolous. It does no good. It shows\\na vaunting spirit, as much as to say I know more about how this\\nshould be done than the person who did it. A person whose opin-\\nion is valuable never gives it voluntarily. Neither can any value be\\nplaced upon a good motive in offering it. Jealousy prompts\\nmany an unfavorable criticism and friendship many a pleasant one.\\nIt is a good thing to be able to judge for one s self. The occa-\\nsional torture of listening to a poor entertainer prepares the way for\\na better enjoyment of a good one, by contrast.", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "138\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nRequirements. Do not pass an opinion on people whom you\\nmeet. Do not make remarks upon the habits, style of dress, man-\\nners, words or acts of your fellow-beings. Cultivate the habit of\\nthinking to yourself, and not expressing yourself aloud. Never vol-\\nunteer a criticism on public matters unless it is sought after, in\\nwhich case dispose of it in a few well-chosen words.\\nLosses.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At the final reckoning estimate your rank on the\\n.basis of 100 per cent.\\nLESSON FORTY-NINE.\\nFORTY-NINTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nHASTY PROMISES.\\nThirteenth Day Out in the World. Road No. 1.\\nIt is an old adage that a bad promise is better broken than\\nkept,\\nTo be in a position where a promise must be broken is unpleas-\\nant. No matter what the case may be it is a dangerous thing to a\\nnoble character to be compelled to break a promise. Even if the per-\\nson were to move to a far-away State and never meet his promise\\nagain, still the reflex influence on the character of the promisor is\\nserious in the effect. A man could not look himself in the face with\\nthe same ease that he possessed before. A broken promise is a scar\\nupon the soul.\\nYet it is true that a bad promise should be broken, and truer\\nstill that it should not have been made. The old patriarch who sac-\\nrificed his son, the Roman ruler who ordered the execution of his\\nown boy, were determined to keep the vows they had made.\\nIt is admitted to be better to refuse to- carry out an illegal, im-\\nmoral or improper promise. Deception in the inducing of it might\\nvitiate it. Still a strong character would rarely be caught in this\\nway. Think well before promising. An engagement to meet an-\\nother, no matter how trivial and useless, must always be kept, un-\\nless it is for an improper purpose. That matter will be discussed,\\nin another lesson. A promise to do or not to do a thing should never\\nbe hastily made, unless you are clearly certain of its effects. Prom-", "height": "4480", "width": "2904", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n139\\nises are necessary in order to carry on the ordinary affairs of life, to\\naccommodate society and business, and to let others know what\\ncourse of conduct on our part may be depended on by them. The\\nperson who never makes a promise is weak. Yet there are times\\nwhen we should think carefully over a matter.\\nRequirements. Never make a hasty promise where any doubt\\nwhatever lingers in the mind as to the consequences. Sleep at least\\none night over a matter of ordinary importance, and longer\\nwhen the case is serious, if such is possible. Where immediate de-\\ncision is necessary act promptly, taking the benefit of the doubt to\\nyourself. Do not allow any person to solicit you against your will.\\nIf you feel the influence of a stronger will acting upon yours, in a\\nmatter where your are sure you should either not yield or should\\ndeliberate longer, always excuse yourself from the presence of the\\nother, go apart where you may talk to yourself, decide if you really\\nwish to yield or not, make the decision on the side of right, put\\ndown the word No on paper, return and stand by this No at\\nall hazards. Make it a case of will power. For every victory so\\ngained you will acquire an easier triumph in the next conflict.\\nLosses. Keep a record of your battles in this matter and\\nrecord a loss of one mark for every failure.\\nTriumphs. For every victory gained in a difficult battle re-\\ncord a triumph of one mark.\\nLESSON FIFTY.\\nFIFTIETH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nANONYMOUS ATTACKS.\\nFourteenth Day Out in the World. Eoad No. 2.\\nHALF WAY TO THE CITADEL.\\nA question of this kind might have been disposed of under the\\nhead of nobility, for nothing can detract so much from one s\\ngrander nature than to strike in the dark. An open enemy may be\\nmet and justice done, but when the assailant is under cover of an\\nanonymous signature, or strikes from ambush, the victim is helpless.\\nOne of the surest ways of curing an evil that no age has been free", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "140\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nfrom, is tq increase our friendship for the person assailed. If the\\npeople who seek to injure by this midnight assault can be made to\\nunderstand that the purpose fails, in that the intended victim is the\\ngainer by it, the reaction becomes bitter indeed.\\nFew persons have been free from this species of malice. The\\nwhiter the character and the more cowardly the assailant the more\\napt is this sort of warfare to be used. The author has invariably\\nincreased his friendship for persons who have been attacked by\\nanonymous letters, even when they were almost strangers to him;\\nand in two cases, on hearing of such a murderous assault upon per-\\nsons who were entire strangers, he sought them out and established\\na life-long friendship between them and himself. In no case had he\\noccasion to regret it.\\nThe cases of anonymous letter writing are so numerous they\\nhave often reached the courts, and in some instances have become\\nmatters for official report. The temptation to seek revenge by this\\nmeans being so great, and the possibility of discovery so small, many\\npersons resort, to it who would not dare to make the attack openly.\\nSome one once made the assertion that degradation and disgrace\\ninevitably overtake a person who writes anonymous letters. If this\\nis so, it may be accounted for on the following grounds:\\n1. The moral status must be very low before the temptation\\ncould enter the heart.\\n2. Yielding to such temptation debases the nature still more,\\nand leaves little room for those grander feelings that are necessary\\nto success in life. That ruin which is ascribed to ill-luck is but a\\nlogical consequence.\\nEequieements. If the temptation ever enters the heart to at-\\ntack a person by writing an anonymous letter to him or to another\\nconcerning him, read the lesson on Nobility, and study the more\\ninspiring Points of Character. Never, under any circumstances,\\neither in earnest or in joke, for a good or bad purpose, allow your-\\nself to think of concealing your true name and full address from any\\ncommunication. The habit may be formed at first in an unimport-\\nant way, but will soon grow to more serious results.\\nLosses. For every time the temptation enters the heart\\nrecord a loss of one mark. For each anonymous letter or com-\\nmunication hereafter sent by you record a loss of one hundred\\nmarks.", "height": "4476", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\ni\\n143\\nLESSON FIFTY-ONE.\\nFIFTY-FIRST POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nPROMPTNESS.\\nFifteenth Day Out in the Would. Eoad No. 3.\\nThe last lesson marked the close of the first half of your\\nlabors. One-half of the journey Out in the World is also com-\\npleted. The White Citadel of Character may be discerned on the\\nsummit of the Heights; but as the roads lead Down in the Depths\\nit will be lost sight of.\\nIf you are following faithfully in these stages your progress\\nwill be marked even now, although it is said that true progress is\\nnot noticeable. Where we can see our own progress it is merely\\nbloating. True growth is from within, and before it is visible from\\nwithout it must permeate our entire nature.\\nPromptness is our next Point of Character. It involves a\\nrecognition of the value of time. If two persons make an engage-\\nment to meet at a certain time and place, the one who is a minute\\nbehind the appointed time has the following accounts of profit and\\nloss to his credit:\\nHe gains:\\n1. The ill opinion of the other party.\\n2. Future distrust by the other party.\\n3. A reputation that he is not to be depended upon.\\nHe loses:\\n1. The time of both.\\n2. Reputation for promptness.\\n3. His own good opinion.\\nAgreements and appointments should be promptly kept. A\\ncertain lawyer of some ability, but of an unsavory reputation de-\\ncided to turn about and try to win the good opinion of the public.\\nHe sought the advice of a friend, who said: Your reputation is bad.\\nAmong other things your word is not to be depended upon. The\\nlawyer resolved to devote his attention to reforming one habit at a\\ntime, and resolved to make his word good at all hazards. At every\\nappointment he was on hand one minute in advance of the time.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "142\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nEvery promise lie made, however trivial or unimportant, he kept to\\nthe letter. Once, intending to go to another city, he agreed to take\\na certain message to a business house for an acquaintance of his.\\nSomething prevented his going; but he hired a man at his own ex-\\npense to go with the message, and it was delivered promptly. This\\nwas found out and excited admiration for the lawyer. To-day he\\nhas risen to the head of the bar.\\nAll persons can turn about and win good names and noble\\ncharacters.\\nRequirements. Keep every promise to the letter. If you are\\nto be at a certain place at a certain time be sure of being there one\\nminute ahead of the time, no matter if the appointment is unim-\\nportant. Make a reputation for reliability. It will help you with\\nothers, and elevate the general tone of your character. Take no\\nchances. Whenever in doubt as to how long it will take to reach\\nthe place of your ajypointnient, give the benefit of the doubt to an\\nearly arrival.\\nSign the following pledge:\\nPledge 13.\\nRealizing the importance to others, and to myself in the for-\\nmation of character, that I acquire the habit of promptness in all\\nthings, I hereby resolve to make a memorandum of the exact time\\nwhich I may appoint in any engagement with another, in case it is\\nof a nature that may be forgotten or misunderstood; and I will be\\npunctual in such meeting in each and every instance. I further re-\\nsolve to be prompt in attendance at all places, meetings or gather-\\nings, whether of business, church, social, or other nature, and\\nwhether one or more persons besides myself are involved. Also in\\nthe assignment of duties for myself alone I will be prompt in meet-\\ning and performing them.\\nLosses. For every breach give yourself two losses.\\nGains. For every act of punctuality under difficult circum-\\nstances give yourself two marks of triumph.", "height": "4480", "width": "2904", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\ni\\n14a\\nLESSON FIFTY-TWO.\\nFIFTY-SECOND POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nCREDULITY.\\nSixteenth Day Out in the World. Road No. 4.\\nCharacter has its good arid its bad traits. The acquisition of\\nthe good and trie avoidance of the bad constitute the course of\\ntraining now in progress.\\nA successful man once ascribed his high position in life to the\\nfact that he never took anything for granted. This is his lan-\\nguage. By it he did not mean to say that he trusted no one; but\\nthat he acquainted himself with the exact facts whenever it was pos-\\nsible to do so-. In all cases where the issue is important it is better\\nto be correctly informed. Memory is more deficient than we are\\naware. For instance, the report of the contents of a letter, book, or\\npaper, is not so reliable as the thing itself. What Mr. A. tells you\\nMr. B. has said about you is generally sure to be incorrect, and often\\nseriously so. To believe it is a species of credulity. The accounts\\nin the newspapers are rarely ever half correct, and the percentage of\\nerror is often very large. The ambitious reporter cares more for his\\nreputation as a gatherer of spicy news than for the facts. So-\\ncalled interviews are often pure inventions. The author was\\npresent at the interview of a, United States Senator, who abso-\\nlutely refused to open his mouth, except to say good morning\\nbut the next day s paper had an article nearly a column long. The\\nquestions asked by the correspondent were there, and long answers\\nfrom the Senator followed each question. It is safe to put down all\\ninterviews as either advertisements or inventions. The system of\\nfabricating articles has increased very much of late. European\\nnews are written in the newspaper office to a large extent. The\\nshell or outline of a cablegram contains a few lines; but the long re-\\nport is beautifully interwoven on this side of the Atlantic; and the\\nAmerican readers accept it all as fact.\\nThe credulity of the public renders it possible to carry on a vast\\namount of cheating in all lines of trade. Extraordinary advertis-\\ning, unusual claims of merit, and pretences of great bargains are\\nfactors in this system. The more modest the claim the safer it is", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "144 TEE NEW EDUCATION\\nto deal with the person making it. Do not be influenced by unusual\\nmethods of gaining your confidence.\\nBelief in sign^ superstitions and warnings is evidence of a weak\\ncharacter. Likewise, is it to pay money to or spend time with a for-\\ntune teller, clairvoyant, or similar fraud. It would require a long\\nexplanation to convince you of the manner in which many won-\\nderful things are done; but the fact remains that no human being\\ncan look into the future one minute ahead.\\nMind reading is an established fact, explainable on the\\nprinciple that what exists in one mind may be communicated by\\nnerve waves to another, as sound passes by its own waves from brain\\nto brain; but what does not yet exist cannot be communicated.\\nPredictions are mere guess-work.\\nKequieements. Carry out as far as consistent in your daily\\nlife the suggestions of this lesson.\\nLosses. At the final reckoning estimate your rank on the\\nbasis of 100 per cent.\\nLESSON FIFTY-THREE.\\nFIFTY-THIRD POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nDIRECTNESS.\\nSeventeenth Day Out in the World. Eoad No. 1.\\nDishonesty is always cowardly. There are things winch every\\nperson dislikes to do. It is both refreshing and inspiring to gather\\nfrom the private lives of great men and women their curious and\\nearnest efforts to build character. Each has had some code, some\\nstandard to live by. One of the most curious methods, was that of\\nthe Duke of Wellington. He had a motto, Always do what you\\ndon t want to. Properly applied to the life of any person this be-\\ncomes a most important point. It is a good plan every morning on\\nstarting about the duties of the day to select those which should be\\nperformed, but which are the most dreaded. Never walk away from\\nduty. If you owe an apology go directly about the making of it.\\nIf you are indebted to a person and can pay, then do so at once; but\\nif impossible, seek the person. Never wait for him to call on you.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n145\\nIf your promise to pay must be broken (and it never should be if\\nthere is any possibility of its fulfillment), go like a man and tell the\\nfacts. Do not wedge in an excuse. Make no pretences. You\\nknow your circumstances and what you can probably do in the fu-\\nture. Do not overcolor, or undercolor a single fact. It is far\\nnobler to go to prison than to lie. As a matter of policy you will\\ngain the friendship and leniency of the creditor by stating the facts\\nas they are; and as a matter of grand character development you\\nwill add to the stature of your manliness by this method. Policy\\nand true character lean together. We gain the most when we are\\nmost worthy.\\nComing straight to the point is a mark of moral strength.\\nCowards beat about the bush. If you have a tiling to say that ought\\nto be said, give it utterance. Directness need not destroy politeness.\\nBluntness and coarseness are far different from directness. The lat-\\nter states the exact thing at the proper time and place; while blunt-\\nness may state the improper thing, and is always out of place.\\nSome people so dislike to say ~No when asked to oblige a\\nfriend when they should not, that they invariably say I will see/*\\nor seek to put off a decisive answer. Say No kindly and promptly.\\nExcuses are unnecessary as a rule. An explanation of your reasons\\nfor saying No leads to argument, and a more astute opponent\\nmay convince you against your will and turn your No into Yes/\\nWe can imagine no better way to test your strength of character\\nthan to say No kindly and with all directness when duty de-\\nmands.\\nKequirements. Adopt in your everyday lives the sugges-\\ntions of this lesson. Keep a record -of every battle and victory. Be\\ndirect without being blunt or coarse.\\nLosses. For every failure record a loss of two marks.\\nTriumphs. If any struggle with yourself is unusually severe\\nand you ultimately win, record a triumph of three marks.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "146\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON FIFTY-FOUR.\\nFIFTY-FOURTH POINT OF CHARACTER\\nGENEROSITY.\\nEighteenth Day Out m the World. Road No. 2.\\nThe question of Charity is not involved in this lesson. Both\\nare physical or emotional, with an interlinking of each with the\\nother. Neither is the question of sacrifice at stake. The latter can-\\nnot be classed among the Points of Character. To be willing to\\nmake a sacrifice of property, time or life for the benefit of another\\nis governed by local causes.\\nWe can be generous without making a sacrifice. If in a con-\\ntest our opponent is defeated we can omit mentioning it in his pres-\\nence, or causing any self -adulation to reach his ears. If our neigh-\\nbor is ill we can do him many favors without making any sacrifice\\nexcept of disinclination. If he is maligned it is our duty to in-\\ncrease our friendly feelings for him. A man who has fallen is never\\nentirely worthless. Go to such an one, talk with him, and the\\nchances are he will tell you the world is against Mm, and no one\\ncares whether he lives or dies.\\nLife is so short, death comes so unexpectedly to us all, and the\\nmeaning of our existence here is so strange, so weird, so incompre-\\nhensible, that no mistake can occur if we regard the human race as\\none family, and deal generously with each member of it.\\nIt costs nothing to aid others in a hundred ways. A mean,\\nnarrow disposition will shrink from yielding to another even the lit-\\ntle courtesies that make up the sweetnesses of life.\\nAs far as the financial part of this question is concerned there\\nare many times when generosity costs no more than selfishness-\\nThe man who gives twenty-five cents or a dollar a dozen times or\\nmore in a month to tip a waiter and cannot afford to give a few dol-\\nlars a year to the helpless poor is selfish. This is only an illustrat-\\ning case. There are hundreds of ways of squandering money that\\nadd nothing to a man s comfort. Tipping waiters brings into use\\na system of snobbishness which reacts on the persons who inau-\\ngurate it, for they are compelled to pay double price for food in\\norder to get the same attention which they are entitled to in anj", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n147\\ncase. Gambling is another species of wastefulness which takes\\naway a man s opportunity for broadening his nature by generosity.\\nBeqtjieemexts. Look searchingly into your nature and dis-\\nc-over if selfishness is there. If so, commence to eradicate it by dis-\\ncarding all the smaller evidence of it. Be generous at first in little\\nthings that cost no time, money or effort. Gradually broaden the\\nheart by inviting the nobler and grander forms of generosity into\\nit, Use judgment, Think kindly of your fellow-beings. The best\\nof them are capable of moral improvement. Deal generously with\\ntheir faults. Never wound the feelings of any one.\\nLosses. At the final reckoning estimate your percentage on\\nthe basis of 100 per cent.\\nLESSON FIFTY-FIVE.\\nFIFTY-FIFTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nMOMENTS.\\nNineteenth Day Out m the Would. Eoad No. 3.\\nThe ocean is made of drops; the earth of grains; time of mo-\\nments: and a full life of the use of them.\\nCharacter cannot be builded of large parts; but is composed of\\nthe finer and more delicate particles which are capable of the most\\nexquisite finish. The greater the man the more value he places\\nupon that small division of time winch includes but sixty seconds.\\nA moment to a full life is the means of accomplishing something;\\nbut to an aimless life it is far too small to be heeded. The majority\\nof people who have anything to do wait till they can find time to da\\nit. There must be a holiday, a whole evening, or some spare hour\\nwhen the mind can be upon it, How can I be expected to ac-\\ncomplish anything unless I can devote my whole attention to it?\\nTo such a person a moment is of no value. Yet genius com-\\nbined with tact would find value for a minute. Of course it is bet-\\nter to have time to yourself; but to wait for this would delay all\\nordinary undertakings, and prevent great ones from being accom-\\nplished.", "height": "4468", "width": "2900", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "148\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nOne can learn to think on a subject even in the midst of other\\nduties. The mind is able to shut out all noises and disturbing in-\\nfluences and concentrate itself upon some theme requiring close\\nthought; even in the midst 1 of the busy hum of life. This habit is\\nquickly acquired or lost by practice.\\nFrom the time we arise in the morning until we retire at night\\nwe find small parcels of time distributed through the day, in quan-\\ntities varying from one minute to a half hour, when nothing im-\\nportant is at hand. To invent some method for using these mo-\\nments is your task. Can you do it? They cannot be called vacation\\nmoments, for vacation is variety. By this we mean that he who puts\\nthe most variety into his mind obtains the profitable vacation. If\\nyou pass the spare moments idly, your brain will probably be filled\\nwith thoughts of your work or daily occupation, and you will have\\nperformed two days work. Hard brain work is a relief to the mind\\nand body if it changes the thoughts to new channels.\\nSome persons carry note-books to write in during their spare\\nmoments; others good literature to read; others lessons to be\\nlearned; others devote themselves to personal care and the acquisi-\\ntion of politeness, self-control and refinement. If you have no\\nother means of filling in these moments, take this book with you\\nand commit to memory the One Hundred Points of Character, first\\nby Separate Boads, and then in the order of the lessons, as traveled.\\nEequiee^iexts. Sign the following pledge:\\nPledge ~No. 14.\\nI solemnly promise to waste as few of the single moments or\\nsmall parcels of time as possible; and I will aid myself in this direc-\\ntion by applying to these moments the First Point of Character,\\nSelf-Effort or as much of it as requires energy.\\nLosses. At the final reckoning estimate your rank on the\\nbasis of 100 per cent.", "height": "4460", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "ONE Hl XDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n149\\nLESSON FIFTY-SIX.\\nFIFTY-SIXTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nINSPIRE AMBITION.\\nTwentieth Day On in the Woeld. Road Ho. 4.\\nUnder the title of Influence we discussed a trait of character\\nwhich was intended as a stepping stone to the present one. It is\\nprobably an unusual task which you are now called upon to per-\\nform. Your life has been very commonplace, perhaps. Xo desire\\nfor the better joys of success has yet come to you. Y our everyday\\nhumdrum mode of living has closed out the romantic yearnings,\\nand left you very commonplace. They say that one learns a thing\\nbest by teaching it to others: a very important truth. So in the\\nbuilding of character. For every endeavor made to ennoble those\\naround us we ourselves grow twofold in the same direction.\\nIn an effort to inspire others to a grander life great tact should\\nbe used. The wrong words would defeat the purpose. It is a good\\nopportunity to practice the art of using tact. This art must be ac-\\nquired, and we might as well begin to learn it now. There are\\nmany kinds of ambition which we may inspire in others. It be-\\ncomes very simple work at times. For instance, a poor girl who\\nearned very small wages at manual labor could not read or write\\nwell. A lady in five minutes conversation advised her to spend her\\nspare moments in improvement in this direction and told her where\\nshe could procure the books and material. That accidental conver-\\nsation resulted in changing the whole course of one life, at least,\\nThere is no person who does not appreciate a kindly interest in his\\nwelfare, if properly shown; although all would resent unwarrant-\\nable meddling. Many yearn for some fellow-being s sympathy. We\\nwho are strong and desire to be stronger should freely give that\\nsympathy. It often brings tears to the eyes of some weary mortals\\nwho thought no one in all the wide world took the slightest interest\\nin them.\\nThe earnest, kindly face, the sincere voice, speaking the right\\nword at the right time, are brighter jewels in the pathway of a dis-\\ncouraged being than a new empire would be to a victorious general.", "height": "4480", "width": "2908", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "150 THE NEW EDUCATION\\nBequikements. Select your theme to suit the case of some\\nfriend, or even stranger. Find out what interests him, what ambi-\\ntion he has, and what are the limits of his desires. If experience\\nhas given you greater advantage and more valuable knowledge than\\nhe possesses, you could direct him minutely. But if he is of equal or\\ngreater rank, advice and a sincere interest in his future would win\\nhim to a thinking mood. Eo being is so far above you. in wealth or\\nsocial rank that your interest in him, if sincere, would not have\\nsome influence. It is estimated that nearly every great man and\\nwoman that ever lived has first been inspired to a noble ambition by\\nsome friend or stranger.\\nLosses. At the final reckoning estimate your rank on the\\nbasis of 100 per cent.\\nLESSON FIFTY-SEVEN.\\nFIFTY-SEVENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nADAPTATION.\\nTWENTY-FIEST DAY OUT IN THE WORLD. EOAD No. 3.\\nAmbition inspires restlessness. This restlessness is a spirit of\\nactivity, which, if governed with tact, becomes a moving and irre-\\nsistible force in character known as energy of purpose.\\nLaziness furnishes an example of a lack of energy. The latter,\\nhowever, may be present in persons who cannot be called lazy, but\\nwho have no purpose in life. They are discontented. A steadiness\\nof purpose sweeps on regardless of collateral influences, and adapts\\nitself to all the changes that take place about it.\\nDiscontent is a blot upon a good life. If we are not doing the\\nbest we can there is a fault somewhere; but if we pursue our daily\\nlife to the best of our ability and make all things tell for a better\\nfuture, there can be no excuse for discontent.\\nIt is a species of philosophical nature to be able to adapt our-\\nselves to circumstances. Some persons believe they are specially\\nselected by fate for the reverses of life. This is weakness. We are\\ngenerally what we make ourselves. There is a time in the life of\\nevery person when opportunities come for bettering conditions.", "height": "4476", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n151\\nTact, even without talent, can seize upon such opportunities; and\\nthey then become stepping stones for another series of means where-\\nby we rise still higher. The discontented person whines and frets,\\ngrows irritable and peevish, and has not one particle of strength of\\ncharacter upon which to rest. Therefore acquire contentment; or,\\nif you believe that is impossible, learn to adapt yourself to circum-\\nstances.\\nIn another sense, it is advantageous to be influenced by your\\nsurroundings. In moments of danger one is justified in becoming\\npliable in the hands of another. Likewise where the best that can\\nbe had at your disposal, your philosophical nature should tell you\\nthat the only thing to be done is to do the best that can be done.\\nIt is one of the most effective principles in the social art that the\\nman who can mold himself into the circumstances that surround\\nhim is better able to rise above them than he who spurns them from\\nunder his feet, and thereby loses his footing.\\nThis power becomes a strong force in some characters. The\\nman of business, who must deal with all grades of intelligence and\\nignorance must suit his methods, his manners, his language, and his\\nideas even, to the capacity of those who come to him. The profes-\\nsional man is compelled to do the same. It would be folly for the\\nuniversity graduate to use the vocabulary of his accustomed plane\\nin conversation or address to the men and women of the ignorant\\nclasses. They would not understand him, and he would not benefit\\nthem.\\nWe recall with pleasure hearing a famous clergyman preach to\\na fashionable and learned congregation one Sabbath forenoon, and,\\nin the afternoon, repeat the sam.e sermon before a very humble class\\nof people in the intellectual scale. In the latter case his remarks\\nwere plain, simple, dignified and powerful, yet couched in language\\nthat would be understood by any ordinary child of ten. The orators\\nof the professional ranks adapt themselves to their audiences.\\nLawyers, like Choate, have done the same thing. In some instances\\nthe juries are composed of enough men of intellect to sway the rest\\nof their number, and such men are addressed in a vocabulary suited\\nto their mental capacity. Again, it happens that juries are all\\nfarmers, or all miners, or all laborers, or something apart from the\\nintellectual classes, and the skilful lawyer will appeal to them in\\nterms that they may most easily understand. We recall the in-\\nstance of a metropolitan advocate who went to the far West on a", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "152\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nspecial case and was obliged to argue before a jury of farmers. He\\ndressed in typical clothes of- the country, learned in a day or two\\ntheir peculiar phrases, and made himself one of them as completely\\nas though he had been raised there.\\nIn greater breadth of meaning, this Point of Character is in-\\ntended to be brought home to your life. It may not fall to your lot\\nto emulate the examples stated; but they are a few only out of\\ncountless possibilities for putting in practice the trait of character\\nnow under consideration. True adaptation means the ability to\\nseize upon an opportunity, whether favorable or unfavorable, and\\nturn it to good account. There is good in everything.\\nLosses. At the final reckoning estimate your rank on the\\nbasis of 100 per cent.\\nLESSON FIFTY-EIGHT.\\nFIFTY-EIGHTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nETIQUETTE.\\nTwenty-second Day Out in the Would. Road ~No. 2.\\nSome persons despise Etiquette. Perhaps the lesson on\\nFads will suit them. Etiquette is .that agreed or prevalent code\\nof manners which governs the sensible portion of society. It is\\nfounded upon common sense, if genuine; and when not so founded,,\\nit becomes a series of Fads. A man or woman might be accred-\\nited with full strength of character and know little of Etiquette;\\nyet he would destroy a great part of his usefulness, and this would\\nreact upon his real character.\\nPersons who are well informed upon this art of address have a\\ndecided advantage over others. Two things are necessary: first, to\\nknow the code of good manners; second, to put them into use by\\nconstant practice until they become second nature.\\nIn order to know the code of good manners, books and friends\\nare necessary. Here is seen the value of the Ally. You have the\\nright to demand of your Ally all the information he has upon the\\nprevailing Etiquette of the community in which you live. He is in\\nduty bound to help you, and cannot for his honor disclose your\\nname or query to any living being. If he is not fully informed he", "height": "4480", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "ONE H VXD RED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n153\\nmay ask his Ally and his Ally 3 may ask his, and so on until the\\nchain of influence is exhausted, although these chains we hope to\\nmake endless. By this system of Allies every species of informa-\\ntion can he obtained; for if yon select a good friend in the Chain\\nof Influence/ as provided in the Xinety-sixth Point of Character,\\nyon will have a grand source of knowledge at your command.\\nBy this means, and by hooks, yon will he thoroughly informed\\nupon the question of Etiquette at least. The next thing to do is\\nto put the code of good manners into practice. This should be done\\nat home. Good manners never rest well upon a person who uses\\nthem only when in society. Etiquette must he put into practice in\\nthe presence of our parents, our sisters and brothers, our friends\\nand acquaintances. It then becomes natural. Do not sit in your\\nown room in a lounging, awkward manner. Do not eat at your own\\ntable like a boor and expect to he nice and refined when dining out.\\nNaturalness is habit. It grows as we direct it. Good manners or\\nhad manners may become natural by establishing the habit of\\nusing them at all times and places, spiced with rich common sense.\\nKeqeieemexts. Carry out the suggestions of this lesson.\\nSeek the aid of your Ally.\\nLosses. For every break of good manners (as far as you have\\nacquired them with your best effort to do so record a loss of one\\nmark, whether the break is made at home or not.\\nTbeoiph. If you succeed in acquiring the full code of good\\nmanners in vogue in your community, record a triumph of ten\\nmarks.\\nLESSON FIFTY-NINE.\\nFIFTY-NINTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nTHOROUGHNESS.\\nTWEXTY-THIED DAY On IX THE WOELD. PiOAD Xo. 3.\\nWhat is worth doing at all is worth doing well/ 5\\nSome persons lose interest in a thing soon after the novelty\\nwears off. These are weak and vacillating characters. Others keep\\non with a dogged persistency after their interest is lost: and the\\nwork is done in a very unsatisfactory manner.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "154\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nStimulus to do a thing well cannot always be furnished. The\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0character of a person can often be told by watching a trifling game\\nor amusement. If he is far ahead or behind his opponent he plays\\ncarelessly perhaps. This is not thoroughness. It is a good habit\\nto do your very best at all times, whether in earnest or in fun. Let\\nlittle matters call out your hardest efforts, and great ones must.\\nNapoleon played chess with the same zeal that won battles; and the\\nprivate memoirs of his family declare that he played with children\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0with the same thoroughness.\\nThe habit of half doing a thing or neglecting any of the details\\nis a bad one to tolerate. An office boy had to sweep out every\\nmorning. He removed the furniture and articles from the corners\\nand obscure places, where neglect never would have been detected;\\nand one morning was observed by his employer. He afterwards be-\\ncame a partner in the business. Thoroughness has its reward not\\nmerely from its results in the matters done, but more effectually in\\nits influence upon the character. Even if no eye ever saw it out-\\nwardly, the man is growing within.\\nCompleteness and Thoroughness would van almost any bat-\\ntle of life; and when united with the many other noble traits of\\ncharacter, the man or woman must be grand types of the race.\\nHere we see the value of Details It is upon them that\\nThoroughness should be exercised, for what we do with the De-\\nJails will affect the entire structure.\\nRequirements.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Do everything well. In fun or in earnest be\\nthorough. In study, in work, in reading, in meditation, be thorough\\nCultivate the habit and apply it to little matters in particular. Make\\neverything bear the stamp of your character.\\nLosses. At the final reckoning estimate your rank on the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2basis of 100 per cent.\\nLESSON SIXTY.\\nSIXTIETH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nINSPIRE NOBILITY.\\nTWENTY-FOUBTH DAY OUT IX THE \\\\Y0ELI). ROAD No. 4\\nBy a smaller standard, but with just the same solemnity and\\ngrandeur of purpose, we should inspire nobility in children as we", "height": "4480", "width": "2928", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 155\\ndo ambition in maturer people. The entire character and calibre of\\nthe American of the next generation are growing in the children of\\nto-day. We who are advanced into manhood and womanhood are\\nin the habit of treating children as though they were never to know\\nanything. Coarse language, brutal jokes, and cheap flippancy are\\ntoo often thrown at boys when they are old enough to come in\\ncontact with those of ten or twenty years more, and girls are rarely\\never made to feel the possibilities before them.\\nYou have, or should have, a vast influence over children. Thev\\nwill respect you if you are respectable to them. But if you tell them\\nmonstrous stories, or make them believe things which they after-\\nwards disprove, or trifle with their confidences, or ape some buf-\\nfoon, or feed their minds with trash, you are throwing away an\\nopportunity to do them good and add to your own character.\\nA child should never be deceived. If you make a promise you\\nshould keep it just as readily with the ragged urchin of the street as\\nwith the President of the United States.\\nThe little mind peers eagerly out into the mysterious darkness\\nof the long future and readily grasps the outstretched hand of one\\nwhose feet have trodden the self-same path. In the midst of ;ts\\nplays and thoughtlessness it will stop and listen to anything that\\nwill throw light upon that path. x\\\\ word in a serious vein now and\\nthen will fall upon rich soil.\\nChildren are so accustomed to hearing nothing but trash (ex-\\ncept at home), that they at first treat lightly an approach to a seri-\\nous conversation; but a kind voice and earnest face will quickly win\\nthem. Boys from ten to twenty years are very tractable if they be-\\nlieve you are in earnest.\\nYou often meet children who may be benefited by what you\\nsay. Instead of making life a burden to them, why not inspire them\\nwith a noble ambition? There are misanthropes who hate children,\\nbecause many are vicious. Misanthropy is pitiable at all times, but\\nwhen it is leveled at children it is ungenerous. Some are vicious,\\nand so were their parents. Some are nuisances, but their parents\\nmisgovern them. To locate blame in this world is a difficult task.\\nKeqtjieements. Carry out the suggestions of this lesson\\nwhenever opportunity offers.\\nLosses. Take into consideration all your opportunities and\\nthe proportion neglected; and estimate your rank on the basis of 100\\nper cent.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "156\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON SIXTY-ONE.\\nSIXTY-FIRST POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nEXCITEMENT.\\nTwenty-fifth Day Out in the Would. Eoad No. 1.\\nWhen you come to sum up all the stages on Eoad No. 1, you\\nwill find them all leading to one side of character, the Cardinal\\nPoint of which has not yet been told you. It will be found written\\nover the North Gate of the Citadel.\\nThe present Point of Character calls for considerable Self-\\ncontrol. There are critical points in life when excitement may be-\\ncome disastrous. In women, especially, it seems to be prevalent. It\\nmay excite pity, but never sympathy.\\nA little thought would disclose the foolishness of giving way\\nto the weakness, but as women receive impressions more readily\\nthrough the emotions than through the mental activity, it is diffi-\\ncult for them to be philosophical. Some men of hysterical tenden-\\ncies often give way to excitement without cause. Even when the\\ncause is sufficient, to become excited never produces any good. A\\nstrong character is calm.\\nIf danger is at hand, keep cool.\\nIf some one about you is frightened, keep cool, for yo U may re-\\nassure him.\\nIf you are successful in any undertaking or contest do not be-\\ncome excited. If failure is your lot, be calm and try again. If a\\nperson seeks a quarrel with you do not get excited. If you never\\nanswer a quarrelsome remark the dispute will stop there. If you\\nare in the wrong admit it coolly, and make such an apology as ac-\\ncords with the place, circumstances and people.\\nIn the midst of work or play maintain that steady dignity of\\nmanner which commands respect and retains for you the use of all\\nyour faculties. Success comes to those who are cool. If you are\\ntalking to children do not allow them to see you excited, for ex-\\ncitement means uncontrol; and children instinctively know how to\\ntake advantage of you.\\nMany persons there are, and their number is legion, who get\\nexcited over anything and everything that happens. They look as", "height": "4476", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 157\\nthough the last vestige of judgment had fled to the four corners of\\nthe sky. They lose that steadiness of self-guidance that is essential\\nto the performance even of small duties. They embarrass and un-\\nnerve others by the flurry and flutter of noise and motion which\\nthey give way to on the least provocation; and they may he put\\ndown as undeserving of confidence in the management of any affair.\\nExcitement shows itself in the voice in the high pitch, the\\nvoice running high in proportion to the degree of excitement pre-\\nvailing. It occasionally shows itself in a rapid low register of the\\nvoice, hut this is rare, and even then means grave seriousness in the\\nexcitement.\\nHabits can be quickly formed.\\nWe have seen many women learn to keep cool by careful atten-\\ntion and firm resolve; and after awhile the calmness became natural.\\nRequirements. Be calm. Do not get excited.\\nLosses. At the final reckoning estimate your rank on the\\nbasis of 100 per cent.\\nLESSOX SIXTY-TWO.\\nSIXTY-SECOND POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nCHARITY.\\nTwenty-sixth Day Out in the World. Eoad Xo. 2.\\nThis quality varies from Generosity.\\nIt would be an excellent plan to learn the meanings of the two\\nwords, carry these meanings through the lessons.\\nIn the sense in which we use it Charity may have two appli-\\ncations:\\n1. Physical.\\n2. Emotional.\\nIn a physical sense we apply it to contributions of money,\\nproperty or value to relieve the distress of others.\\nIn an emotional sense we apply it to the feelings and treatment\\nwhich we show to those who are unfortunate.\\nAs far as contributing to the relief of the poor, that matter is\\nleft to your conscience. If you can afford it you certainly will", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "158\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nbroaden your nature, ennoble your heart, and add to your character\\nby daily charitable deeds. It is better to have some system about\\nthis, so as to avoid professional beggars, many of whom are wealthy\\nand dishonest. Nearly all street beggars belong to this class. How-\\never, the pleasure of giving even to the undeserving is very great, i\u00c2\u00a3\\nwe nothing know of it. A system of helping the poor at their\\nhomes, so that they may not be compelled to go to the public poor-\\nhouse, would be very charitable.\\nEvery person should cultivate charity. The churches are the\\nsafest medium for contributing to the poor. All church charities\\nare commendable.\\nIn its emotional sense charity is within the power of us all.\\nForgiveness is its first great trait. The intentional wrong done us is\\nrepented of. Forgive it. Do not harden yourself against this kind\\nof charity. Your friend has fallen into disgrace. He was entirely\\nto blame. Do not cut him. Spare his feelings and encourage him\\nto lead a good life. Let him know that if he does right you are his\\nfriend and faithful helper. A man is convicted of crime and serves\\na term in the penitentiary. He comes out, and starts life anew in\\nsome other community. No one knows his past but you. Do not\\ntell it to his neighbors and thereby disgrace him. He is entitled to\\na fair show; and if he is sincere he merits your help.\\nKequirements. Do unto others as you would that they\\nshould do unto you. Cultivate some commendable charity. Deal\\nleniently with all who are unfortunate.\\nLosses. The estimation of your value in this matter is left\\nentirely to your discretion. The basis is 100 per cent.\\nLESSON SIXTY-THKEE.\\nSIXTY-THIRD POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nJUSTICE.\\nTwenty-seventh Day Out in the Wokld. Eoad No. 3.\\nThis may seem to conflict with charity, but it need never do so.\\nJustice in the abstract requires the letter of the law; but when tem-\\npered with Charity is just ais effectual, and serves its intended pur-", "height": "4480", "width": "2904", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 159\\npose better. The letter of the law could not be enforced at all\\ntimes with justice to the guilty party. The magistrate knows this\\nand deals with erring humanity accordingly.\\nIn our contact with the people of the world we have many\\nopportunities for displaying a spirit of fairness, which are\\noften neglected. Prejudice outweighs Justice when we deal with\\nfriends as well as enemies. When a person succeeds where we have\\nfailed something like regret at that success enters into our nature;,\\nand when our failure is accompanied by theirs we feel a sense of\\npleasure over it. Both these moods are due to envy, and this colors\\nthe judgment of mind, preventing exact Justice.\\nThere is a spirit of fairness due to ourselves which should,\\nprompt us to protect our own interests and those dependent upon\\nus, when injustice will be done to no others. The man who smokes\\nor treats when his family may be suffering for the small income\\nthat he thus squanders is doing them an injustice, and always him-\\nself. The woman who gives her time, attention and best thoughts\\nto subjects that deprive her husband and family of needed affection,\\nis doing them an injustice, and always herself.\\nThe decision of disputed matters may often rest upon us, and*\\nfriendship tempts us to lean away from exact justice. Here comes a\\ngood test of character. We feel a sense of honor in the knowledge-\\nthat we have cast aside all prejudice, all friendly leaning, and have\\ndealt by each party with exact fairness. To decide against a friend\\nfor the purpose of winning public approval when we fear to be\\ncharged with bias if we decide for the friend, is only weakness.\\nMore harm is done in the name of justice and in the execution\\nof its mathematical laws than by a breach thereof. The point of\\ncharacter has two sides. One demands the dealing out of justice\\nwhere good to the individual and to the public may be attained.\\nThe other requires that justice be not meted out when nothing can.,\\nbe gained by it. There is every possible variety of consideration\\nthat may be given this study; and we have not the space to devote\\nto one per cent, of it all. It will be sufficient if we succeed in\\nmaking clear the propositions that serve in the main to sustain the\\nvalue of this trait of character.\\nFirst let us lend a hand in the meting out of justice to those\\nwho will be benefited by it, where the rights of the public demand\\nit at the same time. We cannot cite all the typical cases, but will\\nmention a few to show what is meant. Take any instance at ran-", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "160\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\ndom. The systematic idleness of millions of our people renders\\nthe exercise of charity toward them a decided wrong to them and\\nmore particularly to the public. The woman who feeds the tramp\\nat her door invites an endless succession of these professional idlers.\\nShe may feed them through fear; hut even then there is injustice\\nto herself and to the public. We secured the agreements of five\\nhundred families to deny all traveling beggars; and, whereas they\\nhad. averaged thirty-two tramp visitors a month, the number of\\nvisits fell away so that there was not an average of one a month, and\\n268 of the families never had a tramp after the first month of\\ndenials. This shows that tramps understand each other; and that\\nthere are no honest men among them.\\nIn nearly all cities a great proportion of the idle classes may\\nbe found systematically dishonest, While it is true with the white\\nAmericans to some extent, it is more prevalent among the foreign-\\ners who huddle in the slums of our cities; and especially so among\\nthe negroes. They know where they can get food, fuel and cloth-\\ning every winter, and much of the open season, and they do very\\nlittle work except on brief occasions when in need of spending\\nmoney. While at work they steal more than double the value of\\nthe wages they receive. A certain proportion of the negroes and\\nother slum classes are industrious the year around; but they are not\\nthose who follow the organized charities for a living. It is to the\\nlatter that we refer. The tests that have been made can yet be\\nmade; and the report of one who. has been active in the dispensing\\nof charities may be taken as conclusive. If any person chooses to\\nchallenge it, let him make the same test and be silent until he\\nknows the facts.\\nFrom this report, made by a well-known churchman whose\\nintegrity cannot be doubted, we get the following information: I\\nhave always recommended giving with equal hand to all who are\\nin sore distress whether one case is more meritorious than another.\\nI have now changed my opinion to some extent, and this is my rea-\\nson. I find upon investigation that there are hundreds of able-\\nbodied men and women in our city who get their chief means of\\nsupport from our charities. We have had work offered them\\nthrough sources not apparently connected with us, and they have\\neither refused to work, or have done it indifferently so as to be dis-\\ncharged. Many steal openly, or so as to be detected. Others work\\nfor a short time and quit. Outside of the ranks of those who are", "height": "4480", "width": "2928", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n161\\nhelped by public alms are many who never feel the blessing of\\ncharity, yet who are more deserving in every way. What I wish to\\nemphasize is the fact that a great number of those whom we help\\nhave no right to any aid at all. It would be wrong to give to them,\\neven if we had plenty. It is most emphatically a wrong when we\\nare compelled to deny help to the really needy. My plan this year\\nis to find out the families of those who have worked and are now\\nincapacitated through misfortune. Here are two cases, both arising\\non the same day. The driver of a street car was ill with pneumonia,\\ncaught in the exercise of his duty. His wife had been an invalid\\nfor two years. Three children were starving in the house. I\\ncalled and found no fire, no fuel, no food, no help in the house.\\nThe man was sober, faithful and industrious. The help of our\\norganization had been denied because three hours before our funds\\nhad run out. Early in the day a family of burly negroes, all in\\ngood health, had received help from us; and on being asked to do\\na little work at the usual wages refused to do it. The men folks\\nthat evening caroused in a saloon-grocery. Where was the justice\\nin that management of the funds collected from the alms-givers of\\nthe city? Thought and care are necessary in the administration\\nof good.\\nThen comes the question of justice in dealing with wrong-\\ndoers of the criminal and non-criminal classes. Crime is a mental\\ndisease due to the status of the individual; but there is no criminal\\nwho cannot be deterred by the fear of certain punishment. It is\\nthe hope of escape, the expectation of leniency, or the laws\\nchicanery that leads him on. Experience has proved in every case\\nwhere justice is speedy and certain that the criminal is held in\\ncheck. The peculiarity of this law of human frailty is seen in the\\nlives and conduct of the insane, especially in milder cases. The\\ncertainty of restraint deters them. This is true of all low orders\\nof intelligence, and of the brute creation.\\nWrongdoers of the criminal status are rarely ever reclaimed.\\nThey may be reformed by the certain assurance of justice; but this\\nis rare and exceptional. On the other hand all wrongdoers of\\nthe non-criminal classes may be saved, reformed, reclaimed and\\nplaced upon a high pedestal of morality. They do not possess the\\ncriminal disease. The distinction is a wide one, and is well recog-\\nnized to-day by criminologists. Here there is no justice in pun-\\nishment, degradation, disgrace and lifelong calumny. Some of the", "height": "4476", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "162\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nbest men and women of earth have erred and been saved. In fact\\na large number of ministers of trie gospel have sinned and dropped\\ninto offenses that entitled them to long terms in the penitentiary;\\nyet have come up out of the depths reclaimed. Perfect morality is\\nnot found. With us all it is simply a question of degree of sin;\\noften stimulated by the degree of temptation.\\nThen there is a sort of white-livered justice that does a thing\\nto keep its word. The father has promised to punish his boy for an\\noffense, bad enough in itself, that sprang out of impulse; and, after\\nthe lad has shown true penitence, he is made to suffer disgrace. A\\npromise of that kind may be broken. The Eoman magistrate who\\nput his son to death for a technical violation of a law, and in the\\nway of example to all others was a Eoman. His spirit was Neroic,\\nnot heroic. In mathematics twice two is four. In the realm of\\njustice every offense is not the subject of punishment.\\nBecause of the difficulty of its administration with nice dis-\\ncrimination, this trait of character is one of the best means of build-\\ning up a strong personality that any man or woman could find.\\nWhen to mete out justice, when to forgive, when to be silent, when\\nto spare the feelings of unfortunates, when to recognize the rights of\\nothers, these are all fruitful subjects of the most earnest study.\\nDo not forget that justice requires your due attention to home, to\\nfamily and to the sacred duties of domesticity. Herein most men\\nand women, most parents and children, fail.\\nEequirements. Form the habit of dealing justly with all\\nmankind, including yourself, your family, your friends and the\\nworld at large. The Philadelphia lawyer who won a verdict from\\na defendant, and learning of its injustice, paid back the loss out of\\nhis own pocket, furnishes us an example of justice.\\nLosses. At the final reckoning estimate your rank on the\\nbasis of 100 per cent.", "height": "4480", "width": "2940", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "t\\nONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 163\\nLESSON SIXTY-FOUB.\\nSIXTY-FOURTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nCHOICE COMPANY.\\nTwenty-eighth and Last Day Out in the Wokld.\\nRoad No. 4.\\nAll things come to an end. The twenty-eight stages Out in\\nthe World are completed. We are known by the company we keep.\\nIf our friends are not what they should be, it is not necessary to\\ndeal uncharitably with them, nor to cut them; but to make them\\ncompanions is quite another thing. Sin is a disease, for which the\\nguilty party is both responsible and irresponsible. Ambition is\\nthe chief stimulous to a pure life. The person must have some hope\\nleft in the heart, or sin comes in as the consequence of recklessness.\\nWhen a person does wrong, he hopes it may not be discovered.\\nThe fear of the result is a greater punishment than the result itself.\\nCharity will do more to reform sinners than severity.\\nThe most despised criminal on earth, in all his wretchedness,\\nis an object of pity, and Charity should temper Justice, always re-\\nmembering that some Justice is due the community. No perfectly\\nwell or sane person can commit murder. It is an impossibility.\\nHaving due regard to the limitations just stated, it is a duty\\nyou owe yourself to select choice company. To associate with un-\\nworthy persons is to encourage them in their errors. There are six\\nclasses of people for you to deal with in a social sense:\\n1. Acquaintances.\\n2. Friendly acquaintances.\\n3. Friends.\\n4. Intimate friends.\\n5. Companions.\\n6. Allies.\\nThese divisions explain themselves.\\nClasses five and six should always include persons above re-\\nproach. They are supposed to be of the same sex as yourself. An\\nAlly may be of either sex, but always of the highest moral purity.", "height": "4480", "width": "2908", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "164\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nIt is to your advantage in the great battle of life to have as many\\nAllies as possible, and thereby be in as many Chains of Influence.\\nSee the 96th Point of Character of that title.\\nKequikements. Sign the following pledge in this book. All\\npledges should be signed in ink, whether so stated or not:\\nPledge No. 15.\\nI solemnly promise that I will not entirely cut any person for\\nany cause; but will deal charitably with all mankind, with perfect\\nJustice to them and to myself. I also solemnly promise that I will\\nprotect my good name by keeping good company; that I will not\\npermit myself to associate intimately with a person who uses slang,\\nflirts, is immoral, or coarse in language or conduct.\\nLosses. At the final reckoning estimate your rank on the\\nbasis of 100 per cent.\\nLESSON SIXTY-FIVE.\\nSIXTY-FIFTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nREVENGE.\\nEikst Night Down in the Depths. Eoad No. 1.\\nThe confinement of the Workshops was relieved by the stages\\nOut in the World. Having for twenty-eight stages been in contact\\nwith the world, and learned by experience the defects in our na-\\ntures, we are now compelled to pass many dark Nights Down in the\\nDepths. It will be seen on examination of the various phases of\\nour character-growth that the Days Spent in the Workshops dealt\\nwith ourselves in a preparatory sense; that the Days Out in the\\nWorld dealt with our association with people in every walk of life;\\nand now we are still continuing in the World, but in its Darkness.\\nThe stages ahead of us affect the darker places of our nature. But\\nuntil we have gone into the Depths and emerged from their gloom\\nto the glory of the heights we can never know what true character", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n165\\nis. The darker points belong to character, but they are negative\\ntraits, and instead of being acquired should be dropped.\\nCommit to memory and recite aloud with the Morning Quota-\\ntions, every fourth day, the following stages already traveled:\\nHo ad No. 1.\\nLeading to the North Gate of the Citadel.\\nStages m the Wokkshop. Eoad No. 1.\\n1. Self-Effort. 4. Health of Body. 7. Automatics.\\n2. Right-Rising. 5. Health of Nerves. 8. Cleanliness.\\n3. Irritability. 6. Exercise. 9. Memory.\\nStages Out in the Woeld. Eoad No. 1.\\n10. Attention. 13. Hasty Promises. 15. Adaptation.\\n11. Influence. 14. Directness. 16. Excitement.\\n12. Secretiveness.\\nThe day wanes. Night is coming over the world, and at the\\nsame time the road has just reached the edge of the thicket which\\nsoon blends into the dense forest. Descending by the tortuous\\npath we are lost. The sky is clear and a single star guides us to our\\ndestination. It shines over the White Citadel of Character.\\nThe Cardinal Point which will be found, in letters of gold\\nover the North Gate, affects the entire road leading to it. It will\\nbe seen by examination that each of the four Eoads carries us over\\na separate phase of character.\\nThere are twenty Negative Points of Character which must\\nbe eradicated from our nature. The first is Eevenge. We all\\nknow what that is. There are times in the lives of all when some\\nenemy, real or imagined, has awakened this feeling in our hearts.\\nIt is not prompted by Justice, for that deals fairly between the\\nparties. If our f eelings have been hurt, our pride lowered, or some\\nvice exposed, we desire to make the causer of this suffer as much as\\nwe have suffered.\\nAmong humanity this evil spirit is most in evidence. It is\\nmost easily stimulated, created even out of a sweet and perfect\\ncalm of good nature, and acts with greater promptness in effecting\\nits end. Only among the very fairest of our race is it seemingly", "height": "4448", "width": "2900", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "166\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nheld in check; and, from that plane down to the lowest ranks of\\nvice and ignorance, it runs an increasing gamut of force until it is\\nthe paramount faculty of the meaner classes. The best-tempered\\nman or woman of to-day may be the most vindictive of to-morrow.\\nIt is hard to explain the prevalence and ease of arousing of this\\nmalign influence. Few lives are free from it.\\nThere are two phases to this trait of character that may be\\nheld up to comparison. In one we see the spirit of revenge strong\\nin proportion as the individual is of mean or ignorant nature. The\\nnobler men and women are less inclined to be vindictive. Then in\\nthe other phase we note the peculiar fact that there is a reckless re-\\nfusal to forgive among the sentimental or high-spirited classes.\\nThe desire for revenge completely upsets the judgment, and\\nthe reasoning powers are held in abeyance as much as if there were\\na vacuity of mind as far as relations pertaining to this particular\\nmatter were concerned. Thus a business man is involved with\\nanother business man in a transaction of the highest importance;\\nthe latter has uttered to a mutual friend some word of criticism of\\nwhich there is no doubt; it was wrong to commit the error; but this\\nman now hunts him down for revenge, and actually sacrifices valu-\\nable interests in order to vindicate himself; all after the offender\\nhas offered ample apology. This folly has occurred numberless\\ntimes.\\nLasting moods of revenge exist most frequently where there\\nis blood relationship. Brothers and sisters after marriage are led,\\nthrough the influence of estranged conditions, to set up family\\nfeuds that cease only in the hush of the grave. The accuracy of\\nthis statement was once challenged by a man who thought he knew\\nthe ways of the world; and, to convince him of his lack of real\\nknowledge, an investigator took him to a strange town drawn by\\nlot, where the two were to spend time enough to learn what facts\\nthey could. In ten days they ascertained that a wealthy widow and\\nher family were not on speaking terms with her brother s family,\\nresiding near by; that a married woman and her family of social\\nprominence were likewise cool to all her sisters 5 families; that two\\nbrothers were not on speaking terms; that a married woman had\\ndied and been buried with no relative present, excepting a brother,\\nalthough two sisters lived in the same town; and so on until thirty-\\nseven families were found to be estranged; and the only causes\\nascertainable were those founded in a spirit of revenge.", "height": "4472", "width": "2904", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 167\\nCases of the kind exist everywhere; and the causes, although\\nnot easily learned, are too often of the most shallow substance.\\nYou know of such, and it may be that this evil-eyed fiend has\\nalready invaded some of your family ties or their branches. Be-\\nvenge is a desire to retaliate. It may have good reason for\\nits existence if reckoned in the coin of malice, or it may be\\npurely criminal. A church member who talked and laughed\\nduring services was pleasantly cautioned by the pastor; she took\\nthe reproof to heart, never came again, began to hunt for some\\nmeans of retaliation and relentlessly followed the clergyman\\nwith scandal for years; until, on her death-bed, she confessed the\\nfacts.\\nThe trait is a common one. You will find it almost every day\\nin your heart. Some fancied slight, some ill-natured remark, some\\nmean act from another human being will give rise to this desire.\\nIn many cases punishment is merited. Eevenge seeks to add in-\\nterest to the punishment. The baser our nature the deeper the de-\\nsire for Revenge. If Justice has exposed our vices we hate it fully\\nas much as we would a malicious enemy. There is but one way to\\neradicate this evil, and that is by the Daily Account. This is ex-\\nplained in the following pledge:\\nPledge No. 16.\\nDAILY ACCOUNT.\\nI solemnly promise myself that I will take a daily account of\\nthe Twenty Negative Points of Character, and estimate at the close\\nof each day the percentage of freedom in my nature from each of\\nthem; that I will commence with Revenge as the first, which will\\nbe reached about the 65th day after beginning this course of train-\\ning; that in estimating my percentage of freedom from this vice I\\nwill look through my entire day s existence think of my enemies,\\nif any I have; think of my probable attempts to avenge any ill\\nthey may have done me; and if during that entire day I have been\\nfree from any desire to seek Eevenge, I will mark my percentage\\n100; but if Eevenge has been present in my nature all day long,\\nI will mark my percentage 0; and on this basis I will indicate as\\nnearly as I can judge the true proportion between these two ex-\\ntremes. On the next day I will add the consideration of Strata-\\ngem to this daily account; on the third day I will add Fads, and", "height": "4476", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "168\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nso on until all twenty of the Negative Points of Character are in the\\nDaily Account; and this shall continue for one hundred consecu-\\ntive days from the time the twenty are under consideration. And\\nI further promise to make every effort in my daily life during these\\n119 days to eradicate all of these evils from my nature; to think\\nof them as undesirable: and injurious to character; to keep them\\nprominently in mind, by committing them to memory, and re-\\ncalling them on the close of each day; and continue to hate them\\nas long as I live-. The foregoing pledge shall be kept to the best\\nof my ability.\\nThe Losses of Negative Points of Character are to be desired.\\nTheir percentage is provided for in the pledge 1 which must be\\nsigned in ink in this book. Write the words Daily Account at the\\ntop of the blank pages opposite each lesson in the Depths, and fol-\\nlow the requirements of Pledge No. 16 exactly. The time of the\\n119 days cannot be shortened.\\nLESSON SIXTY-SIX.\\nSIXTY-SIXTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSTRATAGEM.\\nSecond Night Down in the Depths. Eoad No. 2.\\nCommit to memory and recite aloud with the Morning Quota-\\ntions, every fourth day, the following stages already traveled on:\\nEoad No. 2.\\nLeading to the East Gate of the Citadel.\\nStages in the Wokkshop. Eoad No. 2.\\n1. Absorption.\\n2. Nature.\\n3. Kind Voice.\\n4. Music and Flowers. 7. Biography.\\n5. Home. 8. Nobility.\\n6. Literature. p. Conscience.", "height": "4472", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "t\\nONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 169\\nStages Out in the Would. Road No. 2.\\n10. Ease of Manner. ij. Anonymous Attacks. 15. Etiquette.\\n11. Sociability. 14. Generosity. 16. Charity.\\n12. Comparison.\\nWhile some of the foregoing appear to be negative in their-\\nnature they are not so per se at all times, as those In the Depths are.\\nStratagem is the point which we must next remove from our\\nlife. It is boasted of by some as a valuable business talent, espe-\\ncially by those who have been long in mercantile pursuits. A_\\nyoung man buys a horse for fifty dollars and by stratagem sells it\\nfor one hundred. No deceit was practiced. The sale would\\nstand in law. He boasts of the profit and the particular pro-\\ncess of skill whereby he won his victory. He has lost two parts of\\nhis character. Boasting is always evidence of a small soul, and\\nstratagem gives the face a foxy, sharp look. It is doubtful if even\\na temporary advantage can be obtained from the use of this two-\\nedged weapon; and very few strategists ever win good names in\\nlife; and then only by reform. People read faces by instinct.\\nThey shrink from the face of a sly, foxy man or woman. In order\\nto be free from this fault it is not necessary to hurt your own inter-\\nests by foolish dealing. No stronger character lived than Glad-\\nstone. He was honest, simple and powerful. He knew how to-\\nprotect his own interests, his name, his property, his pride, by\\ndirect strokes of policy, by tact; but he never stooped to strategy.\\nOf course this trait of character may run into dishonesty, and.\\nit is often on the line; but there is a cunning course of conduct\\nwhich is less than dishonesty, and far from the strong defensive\\npolicy of good judgment, which should be abandoned. Some-\\npeople call it trickiness. In times of war and in any combat where\\nlife is at stake, if our own opponent presses us to necessity, any\\nmeans of warfare is justifiable. But these lessons are written not\\nfor war, but peace; in the hope that the adoption of these prin-\\nciples will make war a thing of the past.\\nThe Losses are to be estimated as Victories, in accordance:\\nwith Pledge 16, which see.", "height": "4480", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "170\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON SIXTY-SEVEN.\\nSIXTY-SEVENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nFADS.\\nThikd Night Down in the Depths. Eoad No. 3.\\nCommit to memory and recite aloud with the Morning Quota-\\ntions, every fourth day. the following stages already traveled on:\\nEoad No. 3.\\nLeading to the South Gate of the Citadel.\\nStages in the Wokkshop. Eoad No. 3.\\n1. Seriousness. 4. Sympathy. 7. Execution.\\n2. Decision. 5. Honesty. 8. Completion.\\nj. Retirement. 6. Simplicity. 9. Code of Morals.\\nStages Out m the Wop^ld. Eoad No. 3.\\n10. Ally. 13. Promptness. 15. Thoroughness.\\n11. Sincerity. 14. Moments. 16. Justice.\\n12. Details.\\nThe emptiness of some phases of society life makes itself evi-\\ndent in the adoption of silly notions, which are assumed merely to\\nattract attention. The small boy becomes father of the man in\\nthis respect when he apes some person or thing, or makes grimaces,\\nor runs past you with a jump, or squeal, to attract your attention.\\nA Fad serves no other purpose. If there were no people to see\\nyou and comment upon the notion you would never adopt it. So-\\nciety and sociability are two different things. One makes caste\\nand the other levels it. The refining influence of aristocratic\\nsociety is a blessing to mankind. Were it not for this, the drift of\\nlife would be toward coarseness and common animalism. Etiquette\\nin its best that is when founded on common sense is another\\nblessing. We should all make ourselves worthy of the highest rank\\nin Society, not for our wealth or ancestry, but for our refinement\\nand perfect qualities. But when we accomplish all we desire in this", "height": "4468", "width": "2944", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 171\\nregard we must fight against that silly exuberance of unemployed\\ntime combined with mental weakness Fads. They bring good\\nsociety into disrepute, and make it hatef ul to the most refined peo-\\nple. Of course they are harmless; but imagine Gladstone or Wash-\\nington or any noble character stooping to Fads They have\\nalways existed, under other names. The attempt to reform society\\nis a futile effort, and must always result in failure; but you can\\nreform one member of it yourself and no one will think less of\\nyou for it. You will draw from all others that priceless jewel,\\nRespect.\\nThe refusal to indulge in Fads will not subject you to criti-\\ncism or even notice, for there are many noble men and women\\nwho occupy the highest social rank, who would refuse to stoop to\\nthis bit of foolishness. Dudes and dudesses should have the ex-\\nclusive monopoly of Fads.\\nLESSON SIXTY-EIGHT.\\nSIXTY-EIGHTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nENVY.\\nEoueth Night Down in the Depths. Eoad No. 4.\\nCommit to memory, and recite aloud with the Adorning Quota-\\ntions, every fourth day, the following stages already traveled on:\\nEoad No. 4.\\nLeading to the West Gate of the Citadel.\\nStages in the Workshop. Eoad No. 4.\\n1. Ambition. 4. Tact. 7. Respect.\\n2. Conquer Failure. 5. Superstition. 8. Sabbath.\\n3. Examine Discouragement. 6. Thought-Control, p. Newspapers.\\nStages Out in the Woeld. Eoad No. 4.\\n10. Turning Gossipy Subjects. 14. Inspire Ambition in Others.\\n11. Gossip. 15. Inspire Nobility in Children.\\n12. Criticism. 16. Choice Company.\\n13. Credulity.", "height": "4480", "width": "2884", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "172\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nBefore taking Envy into your Daily Account it is well to look\\nat its definition in the dictionary. Envy is often misapplied in\\na flattering way; as I envy you your beauty/ 7 where no fault ex-\\nists in the heart.\\nA fallen woman once confessed her sin and asserted that the\\nrichness of her neighbor s dresses led her to hope for some equally\\nas good. Her husband had an income of two thousand dollars a\\nyear, on which he was able to dress her very well indeed; but the\\nneighbor on the right was the wife of a merchant who made five\\ntimes as much money, and the neighbor on the left was still more\\nfortunate. This woman was beautiful and envied her neighbors\\ntheir more elegant dresses. She yielded and f ell.\\nA young man whose character was exemplary, entered a bank\\nas messenger, at three dollars per week, and by industry rose to be\\ncashier. He loved good horses, and was happy, until a gentleman\\nmoved into his neighborhood who had a horse of unusual speed.\\nThe cashier envied him, and as his salary was consumed in the sup-\\nport of his family he resorted to speculation in order to obtain the\\nmeans to buy a faster horse. He is now in Canada,, a fugitive from\\nthe law, while his wife and children are scattered in misery and\\nwant. Envy is the cause of the downfall of more men and\\nwomen than any other single vice. It should be crushed out of the\\nheart as soon as its first impulses are felt. Ambition is always noble\\nwhen free from Envy, for it leads us to win on our merits; while\\nEnvy tempts us to win by sin, for its origin is in sin,\\nEvery good and noble attainment in the character of another\\nshould inspire in us an ambition to equal it in ourselves; and when\\nwe have it we are glad that others are equally as blessed. But\\nEnvy, like Revenge, seeks to outdo some neighbor or rival, who\\nirritated us when we could not equal him, and whom we now wish\\nto humiliate by outdoing.\\nKeep your Daily Accounts, and crush this vice out of your\\nheart.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 173\\nLESSON SIXTY-NINE.\\nSIXTY-NINTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nLOW HUMOR.\\nFifth Night Down in the Depths. Road No. 1.\\nWe are back to Road No. 1.\\nThe human species is only one of all the animal kingdom\\nthat is given risible muscles, and is the only one capable of laugh-\\ning, of enjoying a joke, of appreciating a witticism, or reveling in\\na comical situation. Other animals play and frolic, but there is no\\nevidence to show that they exchange stories calculated to provoke\\nmirth.\\nA certain public entertainer who has been regarded as refined\\nwas engaged to amuse a party by anecdotes and impersonations. He\\nwrote to his would-be employer: I have a large fund of new\\nstories, and wish to know if the party is to be a stag* gathering, or\\nwill ladies be present. You are aware that some stories will not do\\nif ladies are to be there. The gentleman handed the letter to his\\nwife. They both agreed upon the following reply: After consul-\\ntation it is necessary to cancel your engagement. We cannot bear\\nthe thought that we have in our employ, under our roof, a person\\nwhose refinement is not genuine. The rebuke was merited.\\nVery few gatherings of the male persuasion are free from this\\ntaint of low humor. Ask any man who is willing to confess the\\ntruth, and the answer is sure to corroborate our statement. Club\\nrooms abound in tobacco, liquor, wines, beer, cards and indecent\\nstories. We put the matter fairly before a hundred men of as\\nmany different clubs of males in various cities: We are gathering\\nfacts for a certain work, and wish to be accurate in what we say,\\nand we promise not to mention you or your club in any way, but\\nwill return your letter at once. The men addressed were our\\npatrons, knew our purpose and responded in the right spirit.\\nIt is true that some of the wittiest of jokes are found in the\\nlow humor of indecent stories; but as they rarely reach the ears of\\nthe pure, they can remain in obliquy without disturbing the pleas-\\nure of the world. The source of a thing is always capable of its", "height": "4480", "width": "2884", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "174\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nparentage. The assertion has been made that every filthy joke was\\nborn in a house of ill-repute. The only legitimate offspring of\\nthat resort. Men get the vile stuff there and carry it to the club\\nrooms; other men take it to their wives; and thus it may travel the\\ncircuit of both sexes.\\nIn a clean mind, regardless of the moral condition of the heart,\\nthere is no place for low humor. There should be but one guide\\nfor the individual, and it is this: Whatever can be said by a man\\nin the presence of women whose respect is valued, should be the\\nstandard for a man among other men; and no woman should de-\\ngrade herself in the company of other women by stories of low\\nhumor that a gentleman would refuse to tell to the same woman.\\nHere is a lady with two young daughters; she has a lady friend who\\npersists in peddling filthy stories among her acquaintances of the\\nsame sex; the mother, to save her girls, is compelled to cut the\\nfriendship, and rightly, too. A father has been in the habit of tak-\\ning his son to a certain meeting once a week, where men only were\\npresent; but as the boy got to the understanding age the father de-\\ncided that he must either leave him at home or remain away him-\\nself. His choice was the better one, for he devoted the evenings\\nto other engagements where he could take the lad without a blush\\nof shame.\\nIn nearly every brain, male or female, there is a filth center,\\nand out of its source, down through the dirty avenues of the head\\nto the vile channels of the mouth, comes the stream of mud taint-\\ning every good thought that flows continuously to it. In some\\nindividuals, we are glad to say, it is a thin and almost harmless\\nstream. But it is there. A lofty character will neither tell nor listen\\nto a bit of low humor. The fact that the tendency of the modern\\nstage is to the encouragement of this low trait, in the hope of draw-\\ning audiences, shows the widespread existence of it, and proves the\\nnecessity of cultivating a higher standard of refinement.\\nAs the present subject is too important to dispose of in the\\nusual way, we append the following pledge, to be signed in ink:\\nPledge No. 17.\\nIn addition to the requirements of Pledge 16, 1 further prom-\\nise solemnly to abstain from all stories of an unrefined or coarse\\nnature, or such as would be improper to repeat in the presence of a\\nparty of ladies and gentlemen; and I pledge my honor that I will", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 175\\nnot permit any person living to relate any such story, anecdote or\\nremark in my presence, no matter what may be the consequences.*\\nTkiumph. Whenever you are compelled to rebuke a person,\\nor to withdraw, in order to avoid the hearing of such a story, record\\na triump of ten marks.\\nLESSON SEVENTY.\\nSEVENTIETH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nPRACTICAL JOKING.\\nSixth Night Down in the Depths. Eoad No. 2.\\nThis is pleasant. It adds spice to life; makes our friends merry\\nand creates enmities. No matter how earnestly your friend may\\nprotest that he does not care, he does, nevertheless. His sense of\\nfriendliness prompts him to wish not to care, but he is human. A\\nfeeling of distrust will widen your future relations. A practical\\njoke humiliates somebody. The others laugh heartily, but if they\\nare true gentlemen they will laugh sadly at the same time. You\\nalone feel the utmost enjoyment, and you boast vividly over it.\\nThe habit of playing practical jokes has led to serious conse-\\nquences; and its immunity in one case makes it easier to be serious\\nin another. Often we do not know with whom we are dealing. The\\nchagrin of humiliation tempts a hot-tempered man to kill; while\\nsome women have been ostracised by the ladies whom they have\\nthus insulted. The victim more often suffers the most. A girl\\nplayed ghost to frighten her brother; he is in an asylum, where he\\nhas now been for twenty years, hopelessly insane. She has never\\nhad a happy day since. A boy played burglar to frighten his\\nparents. He is in his grave; his father, who shot him, died of a\\nbroken heart. Even where death does not follow fright, the con-\\nsequences to the nervous system can hardly be appreciated, until we\\nfollow out the lives of nearly all of the victims.\\nNo practical joke is harmless. It is ghastly fun. Good humor,\\nsweet pleasantries, and loving surprises, are far removed from the", "height": "4480", "width": "2876", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "176\\nTHE XEW E DUCAT I OX\\nmildest practical joke. The latter makes persons unhappy at the\\nexpense of a victim. The former makes the victim, happy at our\\nown expense.\\nMen there are who take advantage of innocent children to\\nplay their jokes. Such a joker would make a cripple walk around\\na block to go half a square, or would twist a cat s tail to watch its\\nfacial expression. Many persons think it excusable to devote their\\npranks to helpless animals. From childhood up to full maturity,\\nsome people make merry at the expense of cats, dogs, insects, and\\nother forms of creation. These kinds of fun all come under one and\\nthe same category.\\nIf you carefully suppress your joking propensities in dealing\\nwith your acquaintances, you will rarely ever fall to the more debas-\\ning form. No person of noble character will ever play a joke upon\\nany being.\\nThe Daily Account is increasing each lesson as we are pro-\\ngressing through the Depths. Remember Pledge 16.\\nLESSON SEVENTY-ONE.\\nSEVENTY-FIRST POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nFLIPPANCY.\\nSeventh Night Down in the Depths. Road No. 3.\\nFads belong to unfertile minds in society and to all persons out\\nof society who try to ape the most marked features of those who\\nare in.\\nFlippancy is the mental stamp of all persons who lack fer-\\ntility of thought. Infants who have it are called precocious/ 7\\nWhen grown to childhood they are termed smart. Next, in boy-\\nhood and girlhood, they are silly; and when they reach the\\n-age of eighteen are called flippant. In the serious years of life\\nflippancy falls flat indeed. It jars upon the sensitiveness of ordi-\\nnary people, and is disgusting even to its own adherents.\\nA flippant person jokes on all small occasions. He has learned\\nthat a fool may pass for a wise man by his silence; and accordingly\\n-on important occasions when he realizes his pigmy stature, he", "height": "4480", "width": "2888", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n177\\nkeeps quiet. A man who is compelled to keep quiet in order to pass\\nfor a person of ordinary intelligence is an average illustration of a\\nflippant man. People resort to this accomplishment for two\\nreasons\\n1. Lack of mental development.\\n2. Desiring to amuse or appear funny.\\nTheir only attainment in the line of sociability is their flow of\\nsenseless remarks, made to hear the sound of their own voices, un-\\nder the impression that it is a fascinating diversion. To-day we\\nheard the summer boarders at a mountain hotel discuss a funeral\\nwhich they had attended. One said it was a very successful funeral;\\nanother it was quite a treat; another it was a change from the mo-\\nnotony of the week; another, Miss H sang Kock of Ages\\nbeautifully. Yes, as beautifully as she sang f And She Winked the\\nOther Eye/ It was a pity the poor dead man could not hear\\nit. Perhaps we may be blamed for being in such company, but\\nthe people who indulged in these remarks were representatives of\\nthe better social classes. It is so easy to drop to flippancy when\\nthe audience seems willing to hear it. But a grand character will\\nmake its presence felt at such a time, and how quickly one rises in\\nthe estimation of everybody when self-respect asserts itself against\\nsuch humor.\\nDo not make any empty remarks, no matter where or when. If\\nyou have a good story to tell, or possess true wit, so much the bet-\\nter. A happy disposition is an accomplishment; so is fertility of\\nmind. The two combined balance each other and add to the\\ncharm of good conversation. Never turn a serious conversation\\ninto a joke. Never make light of an earnest person. Never notice\\nan error, a slip of the tongue, or an accident. If you cannot be\\nfunny without being flippant, be serious. Humming snatches of\\ncheap tunes, ejaculating words that have no meaning, making\\nsounds, turning serious remarks into puns or jokes, speaking empty\\nnothings, aping some half-witted ideal all these, and more, fill up\\nthe commonplace lives of a vast majority of humanity. Stop it,", "height": "4468", "width": "2884", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "178\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON SEVENTY-TWO.\\nSEVENTY-SECOND POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSULKINESS.\\nEighth Night Down m the Depths. Koad No. 4.\\nWhere this mood comes from is a problem. It appears in chil-\\ndren whose parents are not inclined to it, and often is not seen\\nwhere parents are famous for it. A sulky person is mentally dis-\\neased. The quality of our three great natures, the mental, physical\\nand emotional, appearing in their doubles, form an intricate study.\\nThe mind is never purely mental. Its union with the physical or\\nemotional gives results entirely dependent on the proportions em-\\nployed. Thus where the emotional mental has an overproportion\\nof the emotional the brain runs to diseased extremes. Were it not\\nfor some balance in our minds and hearts we would fail in life s\\ngreat ends. For every excessive moment of joy you see in the open\\nlife of a, person, you may depend on it, there is a balance of depres-\\nsion. This balance is not always, nor often, exact, nor is it true\\nthat a person who is generally very pleasant has the opposite. This\\ndenotes the temperament. Excessively happ}^ people are gloomy\\nin their retirement. Excessively gloomy people are happy in their\\nretirement. The prevailing temperament prevents an exact bal-\\nance. Sulkiness is a species of mental disease, not often cured, but\\neasily made better by proper treatment. That a sulky person can\\nabate a large proportion of the nuisance has been repeatedly proved\\nby the following experiment: Obtain his or her consent to write\\ndown on a little tablet the words, I am hurt or slighted by some\\nremark or neglect which has just been made. I think if I sulk a\\nlittle, or keep very quiet, somebody will wonder at it, and I will\\nattract attention. It will cause people to coax me, to make of me,\\nto pet me. I will be a baby. Will it pay? The person who sulks\\nshould have these words printed on a card, to be taken out and\\nlooked at when the disease gives warning of its approach\\nA charming youug lady came into a family to spend the win-\\nter. In a few days she became silent, except to exchange common-\\nplace remarks. Her silence was dignified, stately and refined. In", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 179\\nfour weeks and two days somebody by an excess of coaxing found\\nout that she had become offended (but declared that she was too\\nmuch of a lady to show it by the offer of the smallest pear at\\nthe table.\\nCauses that appear ludicrous at a distance are serious precipi-\\ntators of sulkiness. The person, man or woman, who sulks is always\\na nuisance. If they are coaxed it is not for love of them, but to re-\\nstore the pleasure of the occasion. The cure is in the double\\nmethod:\\n1. Use the card referred to.\\n2. Do not allow any person present take notice of the sulker.\\nAs attention is what the sulky party is after, total neglect is a quick\\nway of curing it.\\nLESSON SEVENTY-THREE.\\nSEVENTY-THIRD POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nEXCESSES.\\nNinth Night Down in the Depths. Road No. 1.\\nStill in the Depths, and far down into the Valley. It is mid-\\nnight s approach.\\nExcesses apply to every kind of thing, good or bad. To use\\na good thing immoderately is objectionable and to use a bad thing\\nthus is ruinous. We touch all humanity in this the antipodes of\\nnobility. The very impulses that make existence possible, flow out\\nat the weakest parts of our nature. The person who is easily tem-\\nperate in all things is great in none. The deadest timber in hu-\\nmanity is that which cannot grow and cannot die. To rise out of\\nthis moderate state to any of earth s achievements it is necessary\\nto meet on the arena of the soul some human passion and battle\\nwith it then and there. We may be defeated or we may win. In\\nany case victory makes the foe weaker, and defeat is disastrous; but\\nthe battle is never ended until one or the other is annihilated. To\\npossess the great passions is a splendid evidence of our future possi-\\nbilities; to conquer them is greatness. They and the battles they\\ngive us furnish magnificent warfare in the grand battlefield of the\\nsoul.", "height": "4476", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "180\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nIt is hardly necessary to enumerate these excesses. You know\\nyours; you have two. They are not the same two of your neighbor.\\nAll persons of a strong impulse have two excesses. You need not\\ninform us of them, unless it would he a relief. You need not inform\\nyour Ally of them unless sympathy and counsel are wanted, in\\nwhich case your Ally is hound t.o help you by the sacred vows of\\nfriendship. Select your two excesses, write them down on the op-\\nposite page of this hook, sign the pledge which is given in the pres-\\nent lesson, and live up to all the One Hundred Points of Character.\\nIf anything earthly will help you to fight down these excesses, and\\nrise superior to the storms that rage in the depths of the heart, it is\\nthe School of Character.\\nPledge No. 18.\\nI solemnly promise myself to keep a daily record by marks\\nand signs of my failings, if any, in the struggle to overcome ex-\\ncesses; to never erase the record; and I furthermore promise to\\nmake every effort in my power to overcome these excesses, and not\\nto cease my efforts by reason of discouragement or failure.\\nTkiumphs. Wherever the battle has been unusually hard and\\nyou have won, record a triumph of five marks.\\nLESSON SEVENTY-FOUB.\\nSEVENTY-FOURTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSARCASM.\\nTenth Night Down m the Depths. Eoad No. 2.\\nSarcasm is always evidence of some brilliant mental encoun-\\nters in the past with foes worthy of your steel. It may be a neces-\\nsity at times, but. is generally reactionary. It would be difficult to\\nfind an instance where it ever did the person using it any real good.\\nSharp rebuke*, severity of tongue, or the skilful exposure of the\\nweakness of an adversary are legitimate weapons in certain kinds\\nof warfare. They are as far above sarcasm as honesty is above\\nstratagem. They are manly, straightforward and win the respect", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 181\\nof friend and foe. Sarcasm is mean. It turns the worthy thought\\ninto the unworthy. It ridicules a good trait, and. treads on the holy\\nground of the heart to put a thorn in a flower where Nature never\\nintended it to grow. It is sharp, and therefore stings. Sarcasm\\nnever convinces. It is pyroteehnieal and brilliant at times, but\\nlights up the bad without disclosing the good. It would be worth\\nwhile to examine the history of a sarcastic individual. If this hap-\\npens to be a woman, she is acid and sweet* with the former quality\\nsubdued but active in the underflow a female porcupine whom\\nthose who know avoid, and all others meet, but once. There is as\\nmuch glory in possessing sarcasm as the hedge hog might show in\\na coat of pointed quills which the victim carries away in his skin as\\nreminders of his opponent s smartness. If the sarcastic person is a\\nman, he is generally left to himself, except by an occasional oppo-\\nnent who hears of him and comes his way to match skill. It is then\\nthe battle of two porcupines. In oratory it is considered a neces-\\nsary weapon, but a temporary triumph achieved by the use of sar-\\ncasm brings after-results that are never entirely overcome. The\\nhistory of sarcastic orators proves this. Our own statesmen are\\nsooner or later overwhelmed by the enmities which they create in\\nthis way.\\nIt is not only of no advantage to Character, but is a positive\\ninjury to noble growth. It is ungenerous, unkind and impolitic.\\nThe temptation to give evidence of our smartness causes us to use\\nthis dagger. You must suppress it. To prevent its use from becom-\\ning common with others, it is only necessary to show your disap-\\nproval of it. Never answer a sarcastic person with sarcasm.\\nLESSON SEVENTY-FIVE.\\nSEVENTY-FIFTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nTHREATENING.\\nEleventh Night Down in the Depths. Koad No. 3.\\nIt is proper to warn another of impending danger, or the cer-\\ntainty of punishment. This is not threatening. While the word\\nmay be somewhat large for all the cases which are included in it,\\nit nevertheless covers the entire ground. The habit is very preva-\\nlent, more so than one would believe until he comes to examine it.", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "182\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nIt is acquired in early childhood from, parents who are constantly\\nthreatening the child with some punishment which does not ar-\\nrive, thereby defeating the expectation of the offspring. This mode\\nof controlling an unruly heir is a prey upon itself, and quickly be-\\ncomes useless. So an attempt to bribe the child is in the same\\nline of principle. Even in dealing with so small a class of people\\nas children the parent who threatens loses character. It would be\\nmuch better to either not to make the threat or else fulfill it, and\\nnever make it without the full intention of fulfilling it, If a warn-\\ning is more effectual it would be an easy matter to say, John\\nHenry, remember what you got the other day for disobeying me.\\nBut if parents had true character and the magnetism which every\\nparent should possess, it would never be necessary to strike a child.\\nAs we grow old we carry into our larger life the habit of\\nthreatening others, on slight provocations it may be; or often in\\nmalice and revenge. Such threats are rarely, if ever, carried into\\naction; and the lie is then stamped upon them. A barking dog\\nnever bites. A threatening person is generally harmless, unless\\ntaunted with the dog analogy; in which case he becomes reckless.\\nRevenge rankles deeply in base minds, from which emanate the\\ndirest threats, either of physical harm or public exposure. Fi-\\nnancial gain prompts a class of persons known as blackmailers, who\\nlive on their wits, to extort money or advantage under threat of\\nexposure of some kind. America is infested with an army of men\\nand women who are living on money extorted by threats of this\\nkind. A blackmailer should be turned over to the police. The\\nexposure is less harmful than the fear.\\nNever stoop to threaten a human being. It is beneath a pure\\nheart and a noble mind.\\nLESSON SEVENTY-SIX.\\nSEVENTY-SIXTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nOBSTINACY.\\nTwelfth Night Down in the Depths. Eoad No. 4.\\nObstinacy may be akin to Sulkiness, but if so, is but a distant\\nrelative. A sulky person is obstinate in a negative sense. He re-\\ntires, or holds silence, or pouts. An obstinate man persists in doing\\nor not doing something where reason does not guide him. A -firm", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n183\\nman has come to his position by means of his reasoning faculties.\\nAn obstinate man holds his because he thinks somebody does not\\nwant him to maintain it.\\nThis trait of character is, therefore, distinct.\\nIt is born in everybody. Its evil lies in the fact that it is il-\\nlogical, and fully as apt to be wrong as right. As it proceeds from\\na weak function of the brain, backed by a preponderance of the\\nphysical nature at the expense of the emotional, its indulgence is\\nharmful to character.\\nAn obstinate person is shut against conviction from without\\nand conviction from within. It is the end of argument, solicita-\\ntion and warning. The senses are closed, not to be opened again\\nuntil something happens to distract his attention.\\nAn obstinate person generally carries his point. He says he\\nwill not, and he does not. He has achieved an empty victory, and\\nwith obstinate pride wears the face of a victor. People have not\\nlearned to like him. They do not wish his friendship. His services\\nare not sought after. His advice is worthless, for the habit of\\nobstinacy cuts off the reasoning process of the mind. When pleas-\\nure or profit, social success or business enterprise are desired, he is\\nleft out; unless some kind persons, taking pity on the wife or rela-\\ntives of such person, are compelled to invite him.\\nOf course, it cannot be pretended that obstinacy is beneficial\\nor even harmless to character. It is in every way injurious. It\\nis manly and womanly to acknowledge your error, if you are in the\\nwrong; and the more frankly you do this the nobler is your nature.\\nIf you are defied to do or not to do a thing, remember that this is an\\nappeal to you made for a special purpose. Do not blindly take a\\nstand either way.\\nMany persons dislike to yield a point to another. What better,\\nwhat more polite, gallant and refined than your graeiousness when\\nJustice is not absurd? It is a privilege to yield or give in to one\\nwhom you ought to love. The surest way for a wife to win the de-\\nvotion of her husband is to yield to his every wish, reasonable and\\nunreasonable, until he feels the responsibility of the charge placed\\nin his hands. A husband can safely yield to a wife whom he re-\\nspects. If either party is apt to make mistakes, these errors become\\nguide-posts to a safer future, and thus serve their purpose.\\nDo not be obstinate. Be firm as a rock when it is right. Yield\\nfreely when you are in the wrong.", "height": "4476", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "184\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON SEVENTY-SEVEN.\\nSEVENTY-SEVENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nPROFANITY.\\nThirteenth Night Down in the Depths. Eoad No. 1.\\nIt is probable that Profanity is made a crime in every civilized\\ncountry on earth. If a few cases could be brought into the courts\\nto let the public know that there is a law prohibiting profanity, it\\nwould have a wholesome effect upon the line of men, from fifteen\\nto fifty, who occupy the sidewalk and swear by the hour. The habit\\nof swearing, as the word is popularly used, grows rapidly. It is al-\\nways caught from some person. No one ever originates a complete\\noath. In moments of extreme anger there is nothing wicked enough\\nto be said. The man who pounds his thumb hates his Creator for a\\nfew seconds. The purpose is to give vent, to that utterance which\\nwill cast blame in the most telling mauner; and, therefore, from the\\npit at the lowest depths of our nature we cry out against the\\nholiest, purest, whitest of all the Universe 1 God and His Affinities.\\nThe first oath hurts us, if we acquire it after the dawn of reason;\\nbut if it was instilled into our infancy and early youth, we rarely\\nknow its true meaning. When once it becomes easy to indulge in\\nProfanity the habit grows to its full power, so that there is no oath,\\nhowever terrible, which we do not dare to utter.\\nSome persons defend it, on the ground of disbelief in God.\\nThe defense is untenable. An infidel s God is the author of his\\nexistence; and his Christ is the inspirer of that yearning which\\nevery human heart possesses; and it is against these divinities that\\nall blasphemy is directed.\\nIt is not only illegal, but would not be tolerated in the presence\\nof ladies; nor would a gentleman, true to the instincts of his nature,\\npermit it.\\nTo cure it the work must begin in the moments of soliloquy;\\nfor it is at such times that all people do their heaviest swearing. A\\nlittle thing goes wrong; you ejaculate. Thus is the habit formed.\\nYou are required by the terms of this lesson to desist from all ejacu-\\nlations of whatever nature.", "height": "4472", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "OXE HUXDRED POIXTS OF CHARACTER\\n185\\nTo say damn 7 is not blasphemy; but as it is used as the central\\nword for all blasphemy, without which the vocabulary of the\\nswearer would fail of its richest power; and as no lady would toler-\\nate its use, it is classified as a. swear word/\\nOur requirement is that you must desist from all ejaculations\\nmade in moments of anger, irritability or impatience; and in ren-\\ndering your Daily Account you must mark yourself accordingly.\\nAn experience with flies in the summer time will serve as a\\nbattleground for testing your strength of character in this direction.\\nLESSON SEVENTY-EIGHT.\\nSEVENTY-EIGHTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSLANG.\\nFOUETEEXTH KlGHT DOWX IN THE DEPTHS. EOAD No. 2.\\nSlang exists in song and phrase. It is the sister of flippancy,\\nand was never so prevalent as at this moment. Its increase seems\\nto be in the ratio of the speed of a falling body, or the value of\\ndiamonds. There have been Anti-Slang Societies, originating in\\nCalifornia, but the lack of daily training and the vigor of that\\nclimate, tog-ether with the omission of the traits of Character which\\nshould accompany this,, resulted in the lapse of those societies.\\nCharacter cannot grow in a one-sided way, and no one Point\\ncan be established at the exclusion of others. The structure should\\nrise simultaneously in all its parts.\\nThis is an age of slang. The meanings of words are so lost or\\nchanged that an innocent person can hardly feel safe in speaking\\naloud. Refined and cultured people at first feel the shock of this\\nword-abuse; then tolerate it, and fall into the error themselves.\\nNothing but a united effort to check this perversion of an already\\nweakened language can remedy the fault. By an examination of\\nthe English, as compared with other languages, it will be found\\nthat the slang of the latter is far less than that of ours, and its effect\\nupon the dictionary still less; while in America the standard au-\\nthorities are constantly bending to reflect the new meanings put\\nupon words by the use of slang. We, who hope that the English", "height": "4480", "width": "2884", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "186\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nlanguage may one day become the universal language of the world,\\nare making it a language impossible to learn.\\nBut slang is wrong per se. It represents in its origin a lack of\\nmental fertility, and therefore is often pure flippancy. The man\\non the stage of a variety theatre before a coarse and beer-soaked\\naudience, who sets in motion a series of cheap phrases, is making\\nthe dictionary of the future. In the Soup to him is the equiva-\\nlent of words that his limited vocabulary does not contain. But the\\ngreat dailies of New York perpetuate the slang by using it in their\\nchoicest Editorials. The complete gentleman even then never uses\\nit; and the lady could not. There can be no such a thing as per-\\nfect refinement in one who uses slang. A young lady who defended\\nthe use of innocent slang was heard to say, Fll be darned, and In\\na pig s eye, and other equally innocent and refined expressions.\\nThere is no place where the line can be drawn, as one degree laps\\n-over its neighbor.\\nWill you join the ranks of those in the School of Character/\\nwho are determined to put down this evil, and aid in establishing a\\npure language, spoken by a r efined tongue A million of our mem-\\nbers can do this. If you procure your Ally and commence a\\nChain of Influence you will have done your duty.\\nThe following pledge must be signed in ink:\\nPledge No. 19.\\nI solemnly promise to avoid using slang, and to aid in sup-\\npressing it.\\nLESSON SEVENTY-NINE.\\nSEVENTY-NINTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nFLATTERY.\\nFifteenth Night Down in the Depths. Eoad No. 3.\\nFlattery is false or excessive praise, made from habit, or with\\n:a purpose. In the latter case it is generally the tool of some villain.\\nIn any event it accomplishes more than the person flattered is will-\\ning to admit. Who does not like to be praised? The modest man", "height": "4476", "width": "2928", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n187\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2shrinks from it, but he does not shrink very hard. The lady\\nmever shrinks from it unless its deception is apparent, and then she\\nbecomes angry because it was not made in earnest.\\nIt is a species of deception that cannot be called dishonest in\\nits milder form, yet it deceives. To please another by incorrect\\nstatements may not tinge a conscience trained to believe it justifia-\\nble; but it opens the way to a deception a shade stronger which un-\\nfolds the nature to that complete Code of Insincerity which\\nmarks all high society.\\nWho knows of any city where the patrician ranks of society\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2are not permeated with insincerity? What is a reception, a party,\\nbut an interchange of insincerity? The excessive flattery over-\\nflows in the superlative degree, and when the sweetest, splendid-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2est, most elegant phrases are worn threadbare, the meanings\\n-are crossed, and one is awful sweet, terrible nice and excru-\\nciatingly splendid.\\nNo man or woman who has ever risen to the highest place in\\nthe esteem of the world has been willing to be flattered and has\\nrarely stooped to flatter. Many a sycophant of the highest\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2social rank has been severely rebuked for committing this offense,\\nby men and women who can read the heart in the face. It is unsafe\\nto attempt to flatter a person of true character.\\nThe social interchange of falsehoods, it would seem, should die\\nby its own hand, for the receiver knows just as well as the giver\\nhow false it is, and listens in an empty way to these formalities.\\nDo not tell a person more than you believe to be true of a\\nperson s good qualities and talents. Good judgment is necessary,\\neven then. Proper praise in some cases should be temperately im-\\nparted.\\nA flatterer is soon classified as such, is mimicked by third par-\\nties when absent, and often loses the esteem of those he seeks to\\nflatter.\\nDo not forget that the Daily Account requires attention every\\nnight.", "height": "4472", "width": "2884", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "188\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON EIGHTY.\\nEIGHTIETH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSELF=HARM.\\nSixteenth Night Down in the Depths. Eoad No. 4.\\nOf late some State laws have made an attempt to commit sui-\\ncide a penal offense, thinking to deter the unfortunate through fear.\\nSelf-H-arm is the out-growth of sulkiness, a species of insan-\\nity. It is quite easily controlled if hope can he once put in the\\nheart, for where hope is dead the light of life hums low. Coaxing\\nrarely brings a person out of this mood, while sociability often\\ndoes but a sustained ambition seldom fails to effect a cure.\\nIt is for you, who may be subjcet to this disease which affects\\nthe whole character, that we write this lesson. If you have no\\nother ambition in life, adopt the One Hundred Points of Charac-\\nter. Live up to them, and your days will be well spent. When\\nyou have graduated from them, if not perfect in rank, try them over\\nagain; and, if perfect, try them still again, and endeavor to make as\\nmany triumphs as possible.\\nWhere all other ambition is dead, the attempt to live up to the\\nOne Hundred Points of Character will result in something that\\nis akin to a new birth, a beginning of youth and life over again, a\\nspringing in the heart of a new fountain, from which will be\\nevolved the ambition that is desired.\\nSo, by this means, we request you to overcome any feeling to\\ndo harm to yourself. It is not manly or womanly to contemplate\\nsuicide. Discouragement tends to develop the disease, which is\\ngenerally temporarily, the result of thinking on one subject too\\nlong. The sameness of food, of reading, or employment, of think-\\ning, tends toward this evil, although not reaching it in many cases.\\nVariety of mental activity is better than absolute rest of the brain.\\nAll lives should be made as variable as possible in the details, while\\nthe main purpose should not be altered.\\nThe character weakens at once when self -harm is contemplated.\\nThe nobility of the stature of your nature is gone. The face\\nchanges, the brain is erratic and the heart is uncertain. The ability", "height": "4480", "width": "2928", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "VNE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n189\\nto say, I will not entertain this thought, is often, the means of\\nsuppressing it; but the main cure is right here in the One Hun-\\ndred Points of Character.\\nLESSON EIGHTY-ONE.\\nEIGHTY-FIRST POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nGAMBLING.\\nSeventeenth Night Down in the Depths. Eoad No. 1.\\nA recent writer in a prominent magazine in this country con-\\ndemned and defended Gambling The condemnation was made\\non the usual grounds. The defense was applied to persons who\\nwere able to bear the losses without feeling them. To a man of\\ngreat wealth, who has no one dependent upon him for support, the\\nloss of ordinary amounts would hardly be felt, and perhaps extra-\\nordinary losses would do no injustice. The question arises, what\\nharm would be done if he should stake all his property in a moment\\nof excitement and lose it? It might probably be divided among the\\npoor classes in the course of time, get into the channels of trade,\\n.and do hundreds good where it before hardly benefited one. Still\\nagainst that we would have the wreck of name, fortune and charac-\\nter, as a blight upon the nation.\\nGambling is always wrong, and wrong in itself. It gives one\\nthe chance of winning property, or value, without an. exchange.\\nIt unsettles the nobler ambition of the mind to earn what is ob-\\ntained, by planting in its place the hope of getting it for nothing.\\nThe heart is soon calloused, the nerves made unsteady, and the\\nbody unfited for honorable exertion.\\nAny attempt to obtain value in business transactions by spec-\\nulating in pure chance is as reprehensible as gambling in a dive.\\nThe fever of expectation allures men to the stock exchanges, where\\nfortunes are made at a single stroke; but where one wins scores go\\naway ruined, to return to blighted homes, or seek refuge beyond\\nthe pale of the country whose laws permit stock gambling.\\nThe people make the constitution and the statutes. Yet the\\npeople permit the existence of these legal gambling dens, where a\\n:few men draw a dollar a day from the pockets of each and every", "height": "4472", "width": "2884", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "190\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\ncitizen of America, and where corners can be made in the most,\\nnecessary articles of food for gambling purposes, while the gaunt\\nfinger of poverty stretches in vain after the crust of bread that life-\\nmay be sustained a short while longer. The people can change all\\nthis. Will they?\\nYou are excluded from playing any game where actual value\\nis at stake; from raffling; from purchasing tickets in any lottery,,\\nlegalized, law-defying or connected with any church or society;\\nfrom speculating in a stock exchange, or similar gambling hell;,\\nfrom betting of all kinds; and from all chance-taking where value\\nis at stake, except in the usual course of business and investments.\\nThere are some very common forms of gambling that arc-\\ninsidiously planned to feed the almost universal thirst for the same,,\\nand not expose the gamblers to the glare of disapproval. The in-\\ngenuity of evil is almost evidence of a personal devil. Everything,\\nwrong is dressed in inviting colors. The pits of sin are* sugar-\\ncoated, without weakening the relish of their taste. It is not that\\nthe channels through which gambling reaches the great masses of\\npeople are in themselves evil, but that ingenuity of evil knows\\nwhereon to lay its hands for working out its end.\\nThus it cannot be said that card-playing, stock-buying and\\nhorse-racing are wrong in themselves; but being means of carrying\\nthe gambling fever, they are loaded with that crime. It is not tha-\\nparticular card which you throw upon the table, and by which you\\nwin the game, that is harmful, but the very likeness upon the face\\nof that card has stared in the countenances of hundreds of thou-\\nsands of criminal gamblers, has seen the wretches thrust it out with\\nblood-red eyes in the hope of regaining lost fortunes, has felt the\\ngreasy touch of suicides while yet the breath of despair was hot on\\nthe lips, has been the tool of fraud, has haunted the young men al-\\nlured from honorable homes to dens of vice, and has witnessed the\\nunspeakable misery of those who could not shake off the horrible\\ndragons of temptation this side of the grave. Such are the associa-\\ntions that follow the likenesses on the cards used in innocent\\namusement.\\nThe fashionable gambling of the social and business world of\\nwealth is in stock-buying and selling when done on margins. If ai\\nperson chooses to purchase stock at their market value, whatever\\nthat is, and the dividends they pay are reasonable, there is no ele-\\nment of gambling in the transaction. But to buy outright any", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n191\\nshares that are not productive of dividends, or not likely to be, is\\ngambling. Nor is it possible to buy or sell on margins without be-\\ncoming at once a gambler of the lowest stripe. It is a merciless,,\\nheartless, cold-blooded transaction if it succeeds, for it robs of some-\\none else every dollar it puts into the pocket of the winner; and if it-\\nfails it is a contribution to the pocket of some unprincipled wretch.\\nThere is no element of business in it. It is neither smart, bright\\nnor shrewd, but merely a game of roulette led on by blind fate to\\nfool s goal.\\nThe law of the land should attach a severe penalty to all trans-\\nactions in stocks and margins, for they are too often indulged in\\nby men who seek to gain wealth rapidly, and become embezzlers in:\\norder to do so. Their danger lies in the ease with which any per-\\nson may plunge into them in the hope of realizing great wealth with\\napparently little risk. One thousand dollars of actual cash invest-\\nment may bring from ten to fifty thousand dollars in return, if\\nall goes well. A man may lose his first thousand and his second,,\\nand every thousand up to the tens or twenties, but he feels sure\\nthat in the turn of fortune he must guess aright sooner or later, and\\nhe confidently goes on until the little sums have counted up to a\\nprincely fortune in themselves; and then is the time he awakens,,\\nunable to understand how it is.\\nFew, indeed, ever come out of the game unsinged. For every\\nsuccess of the lamb there are five hundred failures. The profes-\\nsionals too often indulge in profit taking, and then the lambs are\\nsheared. These lambs are bank cashiers, bank clerks, bank tellers,,\\ntreasurers of various concerns, trusted employes, men who have\\nsaved a few thousand dollars during years of toil, men who have\\nmade money in business and wish to add ten to fifty times its bulk,\\nvery suddenly; young men who have inherited a small fortune that\\nthey never could have earned, and who* seek to surprise their ac-\\nquaintances by a princely rise to sudden affluence, whereupon they\\nimmediately proceed to give orders for a magnificent residence,\\nwhich is never built; these, one and all, without exception, meet\\ndisappointment. With faultless apparent reasoning that success-\\nis certain sooner or later, they go blindly on, and the same old\\nstory is told. It is ruin for some 1 despair for others, the peniten-\\ntiary for many and suicide for the usual proportion. Those who re-\\nsolve to go slowly, to take no great chances, to keep on sure ground,\\nto learn what they are about before they invest, etc., etc., they and 1", "height": "4480", "width": "2876", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "192\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nthe know-it-alls/ go under with the same unerring certainty that\\nthe victim disappears beneath the treacherous quicksands. The\\nrule of any legitimate investment is this: Always purchase out-\\nright, and buy no stock that will not yield a proper dividend. If it\\nshould rise in value, sell it if the sum to be realized can be invested\\nin other ways that will pay better. Never deal in margins. Never\\ndeal in non-dividend-paying stock in the hope of its rise.\\nWhile the foregoing species of gambling may appeal to those\\nwho have a sufficient amount of money within reach, or within\\nstealing distance, to invest for such chances, the spirit of evil\\nstalks forth in a guise that includes every grade of humanity,\\nfrom the three-dollar-a-week clerk to the fashionable men and\\nwomen of upperdom. It is the horse-race. This modified form\\nof roulette and bull-fight entertainment is not only prevalent, but\\nis on the increase every year. Why it should enlist the sym-\\npathies of politicians and political legislators was hard to find out\\nuntil it was known that the stockholders of newspapers were di-\\nrectly or indirectly interested in race-courses. In one case the\\nowners of a leading paper protested vigorously and indignantly\\nagainst the charge, but proof was secured that left no doubt of\\nthe fact.\\nRace-course gambling is on the increase. It has the support of\\npoliticians, journalists, gamblers of every stripe, saloons, slums,\\nbums, degenerates, prostitutes, men-about-town, idlers, clerks, un-\\nsuccessful business men and fashionable women. A chief of police,\\nwalking in front of the grand stand, said: There is a well-known\\nsociety lady who does not know she is sitting between two of the\\nbest dressed women of (a certain) street/ meaning by the latter a\\nlocality of ill-fame. Another officer at another race-course said:\\nWhen the races come they draw every gambler, prostitute and\\nbartender that can get away. There you have the basis of the\\ncrowd at every race. On tins basis you can build. The fact that\\ncertain men and women of unimpeachable character attend also\\ndoes not remove the basis. Some fine houses are built on mud.\\nThe evil of race-horse gambling is in its easy allurement of\\nyouths and callow women, of high social standing if need be said,\\nwho are tempted to try their luck, to pick out the winner, to get\\ntips, to know the whole game, to spend money thoughtlessly that\\nis soon missed from home, to seek large profits with little to risk,\\nto gamble. Many a clerk who knew it all has had to wear his sum-", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "f\\nONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 193\\nmer clothes through a long and chilling winter, without overcoat to\\nconceal the fact, because he gambled on horses. Many a wife has\\nused the money given her by her husband for household needs in\\nthe same kind of gambling. One success is dangerous. It leads to\\nfurther hopes, efforts and failures. The honest race would be largely\\na game of chance. But the usual race is doctored. After the\\npublic has ascertained the true merits of the horses, so that it is easy\\nto pick the winners, they are not allowed to win. The review of\\nany one season will amaze any thoughful mind; that is, if every\\nrace could be read and compared with all others at one time.\\nHorse-racing is on the increase. It is always attended by\\ngambling. It is ruining enormous numbers of young men, unfit-\\nting them for business and hurrying them into the all-the-year-\\nround gambling hells of towns and cities, there to find their dis-\\ngrace an insurmountable barrier to a life of usefulness and honor.\\nThis condition soon amalgamates itself with the saloon habit, and\\nthere is but one step more. The best friends of horse-race gambling\\nare the newspapers. If you do not believe it look carefully into\\ntheir constant parading of the racing. Some papers merely report\\nresults. Prefer those to the vivid and exciting pen pictures of this\\nf orm of gambling that appear in sheets whose owners are financially\\ninterested in the races.\\nLESSON EIGHTY-TWO.\\nEIGHTY-SECOND POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSUSPICION.\\n^Eighteenth Night Down in the Depths. Eoad No. 2.\\nWhat we know about ourselves we look for in others. It is\\nmore usual to look for the evil than the good. If we find our friend\\nall goodness we rest content, but if a little bad is present we look\\nfurther, and probe, by a process peculiarly human, to unearth more\\nof the bad; which, if we do not find it, causes us regret; or, if we\\ndo we keep on, expecting to disclose a coal mine. The law of self-\\nprotection gave rise to Suspicion in the human heart. To know\\nthe designs of our fellow-beings is to be protected from many harms.\\nUnder the title of Credulity we provided an off-set for this fault\\nknown as suspicion. As a fountain can rise no higher than its", "height": "4480", "width": "2864", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "194\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nhead, so we can originate no suspicion of a sin in another that we\\ndo not possess in ourselves.\\nThis refers to the creation of the suspicion. Honest people\\ntake but little for granted if they are good readers of human nature,\\nbut they never suspect without cause of evidence. There is far\\nmore honesty in the world than a pessimist is willing to admit. A\\nsuspicious nature is small and mean; narrow and unfruitful; always\\non the defense, rather than among mankind doing good. It is bet-\\nter to trust a friend and lose than never to trust at all.\\nJealousy is a hard word to define. Outside of the love-action\\nof the heart it may be termed envy. When we love one who gives\\nmore of the return love to another than we get, we call it jealousy.\\nA man is less often jealous than a woman. A true woman loves\\nbut once, and watches that love with her whole nature. If it is in\\ndanger of loss she is at once jealous. This is justifiable where the\\ndanger is real, but the mistake which the woman makes is in show-\\ning her jealousy; for it is the surest way of estranging the real love\\nof the husband, that perhaps was only in abeyance. It is said that\\na woman cannot be convinced by argument; and this is evidently so;\\nfor a thinking woman must see that a man s love cannot be cor-\\nralled nor driven. It must be drawn.\\nWhenever a woman suspects her husband without cause, and\\nhe learns of it, the process of hate commences in his heart at once,\\nand the loss of his love is only a question of time. If you suspect\\nanother, never let it be known.\\nJealousy and suspicion can work their will and accomplish\\ntheir purpose fully as well if their existence is not disclosed to the\\nother party.\\nWhen known, the friendship or love is seriously hurt.\\nLESSON EIGHTY-THEEE.\\nEIGHTY-THIRD POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nFLIRTING.\\nNineteenth Night Down in the Depths. Eoad No. 3.\\nFlirting is right or wrong as measured by the standard of those\\nwho come in contact with its influence. The desire furnishes the\\nstrength of that standard. Among the class of people who live up", "height": "4480", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 195\\nto the rales of good Etiquette, as well as among all self -respecting\\npeople 1 it is impossible to begin an acquaintance by flirting. When\\nthis stage is passed, however, the participants call nothing that en-\\nsues Flirting If the formality of an introduction can excuse\\nall the after-history of an acquaintance, then there is but little\\nflirting going on in the world. It is true that street walkers ply\\ntheir trade among both sexes, but this class of persons is not in our\\nminds. We call that prostitution, for any person who attempts to\\nform the acquaintance of the opposite sex without an introduction,\\nis of the latter class, except under extraordinary circumstances, or\\nwhere the rules of Etiquette -are suspended. The method known as\\npicking up among that class is an open advertisement of the\\nbusiness on hand.\\nFlirting proper is a playing at love. Anything lower than\\nthat comes under the category just named. Flirts of the female seoc\\nplay at love by drawing men to them, encouraging them to open\\ntheir hearts and declare their love, and then discarding them. Men\\ntake the opposite course; they declare their love, listen to the soft\\nconfession from their admirers, bask in the pleasant sunshine\\nawhile, grow tired, and pass on to the next. Women who have\\nbeen treated in this way soon learn to seek revenge upon the sex.\\nIt is said that a true woman never loves but one, and that is the man\\nof her fate; and a man never loves but one himself. There is\\ninjustice in this. There are men, few and far, who have paid their\\nlife s devotion to a single woman. President Arthur never ceased\\nto love the dead wife whose picture hung in the White House.\\nEvery morning he carried to that picture a bouquet of the most\\nbeautiful flowers her favorites in life, and in silent love com-\\nmuned with her spirit. The tender devotion of this man should be\\nan example to others. The faithless love is in sharp comparison\\nwith the splendid faithfulness of a true man.\\nYou who derive pleasure from false declarations of love should\\nremember that your character drops each time you sin against the\\npurest of all emotions love.", "height": "4476", "width": "2884", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "196\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON EIGrHTY-FOUK.\\nEIGHTY-FOURTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nINSINUATION.\\nTwentieth and Last Night Down in the Depths.\\nEgad No. 4.\\nThe darkness of midnight long since passed and the dim light\\nof approaching day is climbing up the sky. Such a bursting and\\nflooding of sunshine never crowned a night as that which awaits\\nyou if you have dealt honestly with yourself in the stages you have\\npassed. There is no monarch in all this wide world too great to\\ntravel on these roads., and no peasant too poor. Like that unknown\\nhighway which spans Earth and the hereafter, all are equal who\\ngo aright. The last of night drops from our pathway as we take\\nthe final stage Down in the Depths.\\nThe friends we make should be kept, and enemies avoided. No\\nperson is willing to be charged with wrong. Some people through\\nhabit, and some through cowardice, fail to state their meaning\\nwhen they have anything to say. An Insinuation may become scan-\\ndal when it is intended to leave the impression of something serious;\\nand it is more harmful than a direct charge, for the imagination of\\nthose present is left to roam at will. As an instance of this, a party\\nof fifteen or more were listening to a reference to a lady when an-\\nother lady interrupted and said, Excuse me, but, well, Fll not\\nsay anything. Oh do, Mrs. It was of no avail. From\\nthat insinuation six different scandals arose about the poor woman,\\nall traceable to this meeting.\\nInsinuations made to the face of a person are less damaging if\\nno one is present, for the guilty party generally gets his punish-\\nment. It is a bad habit for a husband or wife to exchange glances\\nin church when some sin is attacked, or to read from the Bible or\\nother literature such advice as fits the case of either, while the ex-\\npression on the face says: That hits you. Such insinuations are\\nnot in good taste and weaken your character, while doing other\\ndamage to the relationship existing between you. All references\\nto a past of error should be sacredly avoided. Let the dead past", "height": "4480", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 197\\nbury its dead. Give the human soul a chance to repent. Many a\\nman and woman might reform and make our best citizens were it\\nnot for some slimy tongue throwing out insinuations of their past,\\nhints which stalk, like ghosts, into the new growth of the soul\\nblasting the garden of hope.\\nThere are hundreds of forms of insinuations which become\\nhand-tools of slanders, and work injury both ways.\\nThe Daily Account must be continued for one hundred days,\\nincluding this day. It must embrace all the Negative Points of\\nCharacter each day, until the time expires. Keep your percentage\\nwith that nice sense of Justice which will afford you the clearest\\nconscience at the end. May you never have to travel in the Depths\\nagain.\\nLESSOIST EIGHTY-FIVE.\\nEIGHTY-FIFTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nTEMPTATION.\\nFiest Day on the Heights. Eoad No. 1.\\nOn the Heights at last!\\nThe dawn breaks beautifully. In a cloudless sky the sun rises\\nfull and bright over a vast landscape stretching to a far distant\\nhorizon, down which we gaze in the rapture of victory. A dot on\\nthe edge of a populous world attracts our attention toward the\\nNorth. It is the first Workshop of Character, where our early\\nstruggles took place. Passing from that through the selfish and\\nheartless world, the course runs sinuously along till it is lost in the\\nblackness of forest depths; but simultaneously with the new dawn\\nthe path reaches up to the magnificent heights on which we stand.\\nOne parting salutation to the long past, and we will turn the\\nback upon it; for, as we anticipated, the White Citadel is at the sum-\\nmit of the Heights, It is necessary to recall the stages we have\\ntraveled on the road. They should be committed to memory and\\nrecited aloud every fourth day as a part of the Morning Quota-\\ntions", "height": "4468", "width": "2888", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "198\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nEOAD No. 1\\nLeading to the North Gate of the Citadel.\\nStages in the Workshop. Eoad No. 1.\\n1. Self -Effort. 4. Health of Body. 7. Automatics.\\n2. Right Rising. 5. Health of Nerves. 8. Cleanliness.\\n3. Irritability. 6. Exercise. 9. Memory.\\nStages Out in the World. Eoad No. 1.\\n10. Attention. 13. Hasty Promises. 15. Adaptation.\\n11. Influence. 14. Directness. 16. Excitement.\\n12. Secretiveness.\\nStages Down in the Depths. Eoad No. 1.\\n17. Revenge. 19. Excesses. 21. Gambling.\\n18. Low Humor. 20. Profanity.\\nWhereas, we have blended with the world and have often been\\nControlled by its requirements, to which we are reeompelled to\\nshape the formation of our character, we now reverse the order of\\ngrowth. Among the many beautiful opportunities afforded us\\nOn the Heights is the privilege of exerting an influence ever man-\\nkind; and thereby building the loftiest character in ourselves by\\nhelping to shape the destinies of others. To do this we must con-\\ntrol the world in our own sphere of action.\\nTemptation is a noble instructor. It originates from our con-\\ntact with people; but often meets us in private. In the lesson on\\nInfluence we were forbidden to tempt others; in the lesson on\\nExcesses we were to control ourselves; in the present lesson we\\nmust not allow others to tempt or control us. In other words, we\\nshould so control those around us that they will have no influence\\nof a detrimental nature over us.\\nTemptation comes to us in various forms:\\n1. We are tempted to waste time.\\n2. We are tempted to Gossip.\\n3. We are tempted to quarrel, speak harshly, or give way to\\nbad temper by the misconduct of others.\\n4. We are allured to sin by the coaxing or soft blandishments\\nof friend or associates.", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 199\\nTo none of these should we ever yield.\\nIf any person is unmannerly enough to seek a quarrel, the best\\nevidence of self-control on our part is to refrain from making any\\nreply at all, either by look, word or action.\\nIf the solicitation is to commit wrong, it should be instantly\\nchecked. The cause of many a fall lies in the fact that we hestitate\\nto wound the feelings of a friend, and permit ourselves to be coaxed\\ninto error, ere we are aware. A person of proper tact will have no\\ntrouble in rebuking such temptation without leaving any sting be-\\nhind. Such moments are valuable to all persons, for strength\\ncomes to those who can rebuke the temptation, and still hold the\\nfriendship of the tempter. Cut it short at the very first solicitation.\\nIt will save you; and save your friend from many sad reflections.\\nWe are tempted to scold children for their misconduct. Parents\\nof strong character master their young by their own personality. A\\nscold is never respected by any one, much less by children. For\\nthe sake of the future usefulness of those who are now growing up\\ninto character (good or bad), it is our duty to train ourselves in\\nsuch a way that we are fitted to train them.\\nStanding. To maintain our position On the Heights it is\\nnecessary to preserve a constant watchfulness over ourselves in this\\nregard.\\nSlips. We lose our standing On the Heights by a slip. This\\nis to be marked in the record, to be kept on the opposite blank\\npages of this lesson in this Phase of Character. For each slip record\\na loss of one mark.\\nLESSON EIGHTY-SIX.\\nEIGHTY-SIXTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nREFINEMENT.\\nSecond Day on the Heights. Eoad No. 2.\\nOn the East Side to-day.\\nIt is necessary to repeat aloud from memory, every fourth day,\\nthe following stages, as a part of the Morning Quotations:", "height": "4480", "width": "2888", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "200\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nRoad No. 2.\\nLeading to the East Gate of the Citadel.\\nStages in the Woekshop. Road No. 2.\\n1. Absorption, 4. Flowers and Mask. 7. Biography.\\n2. Nature. 5. Home. 8. Nobility.\\n3. Kind Voice. 6. Literature. p. Conscience.\\nStages Out in the Woeed. Road No. 2.\\n10. Ease of Manner. 13. Anonymous Attacks. 15. Etiquette.\\n11. Sociability. 14. Generosity. 16. Charity.\\n12. Comparison.\\nStages Down in the Depths. Road No. 2.\\n17. Stratagem. ip. Sarcasm. 21. Suspicion.\\n18. Practical Jokes. 20. Slang.\\nThe cultivation of Refinement is too much neglected among\\npeople who are satiated with themselves. The desire to make a\\ngood impression on another is often an incentive to appear re-\\nfined. For this purpose, if there is any purpose in it, society ex-\\nists. Were we to abolish all caste, human nature would drift into\\nthe brute. The backwoodsmen are, in some instances, descendants\\nof the most polished social leaders of a past generation. Even in\\nthe lifetime of many of our refined citizens of the East who have\\nspent years in the more primitive settlements of the West, we see\\nillustrations of the degeneration of men. Nature may be either\\nhabit or inheritance, or both combined. Inheritance provides the\\ntendencies, but habit may turn these impulses into new channels,\\nand destroy the inheritance. Thus a man who is born a gentleman\\nmay become a coarse cow-boy.\\nNothing is so easily acquired or lost as Refinement. By this\\nwe do not mean affectation. Pure awkwardness, if it clothes an\\nhonest heart, is preferable to the most polished affectation. But\\nawkwardness, roughness, coarseness, or whatever may be the con-\\ndition, will always handicap the possessor, no matter how brilliant\\nhis genius, or honest his soul. True refinement is the opposite of\\ncoarseness. In this age of cultivation no man is excusable for re-", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 201\\nmaining a boor; yet the vast majority are such. Eefinement, in\\norder to be natural, must begin at home, and be maintained in the\\npresence of the least of our acquaintances. It deprives no one of\\nthe fullest enjoyment; for the most intemperate laughter and the\\njolliest fun can be refined, and will be if the indulger is capable of\\nmaking it so.\\nStanding. To remain On the Heights it is necessary to cul-\\ntivate true refinement, and maintain it in the presence of all per-\\nsons, as well as when alone.\\nSlips. If you fail in -so doing it is necessary to record, for\\neach slip, a loss of one mark.\\nLESSON EIGHTY-SEVEN.\\nEIGHTY-SEVENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nINDEPENDENCE.\\nThird Day on the Heights. Eoad No. 3.\\nOn the South Side to-day.\\nCommit to memory, and repeat aloud every fourth day as a\\npart of the Morning Quotations the following stages already\\ntraveled\\nEoad No. 3.\\nLeading to the South Gate of the Citadel.\\nStages in the Workshop.\\nEoad No. 3.\\n1. Seriousness.\\n2. Decision.\\n3. Retirement.\\n4. Sympathy.\\n5. Honesty.\\n6. Simplicity.\\n7. Execution.\\np. Code of Morals.\\n8. Completion.\\nStages Out in the World.\\nEoad No. 3.\\n10. Ally.\\nIT. Sincerity.\\n12. Details.\\nJ j. Promptness,\\n14. Moments.\\n75. Thoroughness.\\n16. Justice.", "height": "4480", "width": "2884", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "^202\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nStages Down m the Depths. Eoad No. 3.\\n17. Fads.\\n18. Flippancy.\\nip. Threatening.\\n20. Flattery.\\n2i. Flirting.\\nIn the acquisition of a virtue of so much importance as In-\\ndependence there must be a true! balance of character-growth, or this\\nwill become offensive. Haughtiness is an excess of the present\\nquality. Dependence is not the opposite of it, when we regard it\\naright; for the members of the human family will always be de-\\npendent upon each other in nationality, sociability and trade.\\nTrue Independence is the result of right living. If we are just to\\nourselves and to all with whom we have dealings we shall be on the\\nroad to independence. Self-reliance is necessary for great ends.\\nAdvice is good when it is correct, but as a rule it is misleading to\\na person old enough to fight the battle of life, especially .in matters\\nthat come within his own notice.\\nLearn to think for yourself, to wait on yourself, and to act\\non your own judgment as much as possible. Call to your aid the\\nexperience of every person, living or dead, who has been in a posi-\\ntion to benefit you; but base your action upon your own good\\njudgment.\\nIf you are poor and ignorant, or deficient in any important\\nbranch of education, use your Moments for study; and pursue a\\nline of study that will better your condition. If you are poor and\\neducated and in fair health it is your fault that you remain poor.\\nFinancial independence is within the power of every man and\\nwoman who is not in ill-health. Self-effort is the first great law\\nof success. The author has traced the cause of poverty to the lack\\nof this in many cases.\\nEvery man should have political independence. He should\\nrepudiate a party that caters to the lower classes for votes, and\\ncolludes with gamblers, liquor-dealers and bribers for the mere pur-\\npose of carrying an election. There are good men enough in this\\ncountry to kill the evil; but they lack independence, and are made\\nto believe by ranting demagogues and shrewd political bosses that\\nfealty to a great party is a manly thing! Every woman should\\nknow if her lover, husband or brother votes with a party that\\n-caters to the disreputable elements.\\nSlips. Eecord a loss of one mark for each neglect to main-\\ntain true Independence.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n203\\nLESSON EIGHTY-EIGHT.\\nEIGHTY-EIGHTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nLOVE.\\nFourth Day on the Heights. Eoad No. 4.\\nOn the West Side to-day.\\nCommit to memory, and repeat aloud every fourth, day as a\\npart of the Morning Quotations the following stages already\\ntraveled:\\nEoad No. 4.\\nLeading to the West Gate of the Citadel.\\nStages in the Workshop. Eoad No. 4.\\n1. Ambition. 4. Tact. J. Respect.\\n2. Conquer Failure. 5. Superstition. 8. Sabbath.\\nj. Examine Discouragement. 6. Thought-Control, p. Newspapers.\\nStages Out in the World. Eoad No. 4.\\n10. Turning Gossipy ij. Credulity. 15. Inspire Nobility\\nSubjects. 14. Inspire Ambition in Children.\\n11. Gossip. in Others. 16. Choice Company.\\n12. Criticism. *j x j\\nStages Down in the Depths. Eoad No. 4.\\n17. Envy. ip. Obstinacy. 21. Insinuation.\\n18. Sidkincss. 20. Self-harm.\\nLove is the great incentive to living. It is born in ns; is in-\\nspired by Nature; is acquired. It may be divided into the follow-\\ning species:\\n1. Love of inanimate objects.\\n2. Love of creatures.\\n3. Love of friends.\\n4. Love of relations.\\n5. Love of lovers.\\n6. Love of husband and wife.", "height": "4480", "width": "2884", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "204\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nThe perfect man or woman possesses all these in large meas-\\nure. No matter what may be one s belief regarding a Creator, the\\nwonders, beauties, splendors of all forms of existence about us de-\\nmand our affectionate admiration; and the love of them will\\nbroaden our hearts and minds. The callous soul shuts itself\\nagainst these mellow influences; but character requires them before\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2it can ripen. Under the lesson on Nature we discussed the love\\nof objects. The creatures about us are Nature s offspring, often\\neducated by man. There is such a thing possible as a fair inter-\\nchange of love between them and man, to the mutual advantage of\\nboth.\\nWe should have a full list of friends; but before we open our\\nhearts to love them they should be persons worthy to be our Allies\\nin the School of Character, or links in some Chain of Influence\\nstarted by us; and, if possible, they should be so affiliated with us.\\nWe can then love them safely.\\nRelatives claim our love by right. Too often they are denied\\nthe exhibition of it, until separation or death makes it demonstra-\\ntive. Our dispositions have much to do with the love we obtain\\nfrom them. Forbearance and unselfishness will win such a love,,\\nwhere it may be lacking, and refinement will command respect, the\\ngreat promoter of all affection. The study of the One Hundred\\nPoints of Character has already in its limited past made more-\\nhomes pleasant, revived more natural love, and brought in closer\\nunion more estranged relatives than could have been done by any\\nother influence of earthly origin.\\nBut that magic spell which fills the life of many a man and\\nwoman, young and old, that comes from no source and vanishes to\u00c2\u00bb\\nits origin, is certainly the mystery of mysteries. It is a passion that\\nknows no description, a pain that is happy in its intensity, a joy\\nthat suffers most in its best estate, an essence born of misery and\\nconsumed by satiety. Nature gives it to all life, for the purpose of\\nbringing the sexes together. Pure affection is something far\\nbeyond that ecstatic state which clouds the reason of all lovers, and\\nmakes them declare that it will always be thus till death shall them\\npart.\\nThe love of husband and wife is often different from the love\\nof sweethearts and is generally acquired after marriage. The best\\nlove is not that which is brought into the marriage state; but that\\nwhich comes after years of living together. Where persons have", "height": "4480", "width": "2928", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n205\\nbeen estranged in affections for years, they should lay aside the old\\nmanner of dealing with each other, and begin anew. Respect is\\nthe cornerstone of love. Without this the structure falls. If you\\nare not reputable you will not be respected.\\nIf you know of no other means of winning the good opinion of\\none whom you ought to hold most dear, you will find the School of\\nCharacter the place for your efforts.\\nWhatever your situation in life, love must enter into the for-\\nmation of your character; and this love should be fresh, free, and\\nfar-reaching, as the morning breeze which is warmed by the sun-\\nshine.\\nIn estimating your value in this regard take one hundred per\\ncent, as a basis, and determine how much of this you are entitled\\nto, as far as you are able to judge.\\nLESSON EIGHTY-NINE.\\nEIGHTY-NINTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nWILL POWER.\\nFifth Day on the Heights. Road No. 1.\\nWhile this trait of character seems closely allied to such others\\nas Influence and Independence, it is yet distinct from them. It\\nis a supporting strength to Decision Execution and indeed\\nnearly all Points of Character.\\nWill power must be present in the nervous organization be-\\nfore you will be able to discriminate between Obstinacy and Per-\\nsistency. The obstinate person may declare and actually believe\\nthat he is possessed of a very great will power, when in fact he lacks\\nit entirely.\\nThe muscles perform the entire activity of the body. The\\nnerves carry to these muscles a fluid which operates upon them.\\nThe will power directs the flow of nerve-fluid. The ganglionic\\ncells accumulate, like storage batteries, an electrical force, the using\\nof which is called magnetism. This force becomes restless and im-", "height": "4472", "width": "2876", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "206\\nTHE NEW EpUGATION\\npels its own discharge, which takes place through the nerve fluids,\\nthereby establishing that activity known as LIFE.\\nExistence, therefore, is a restlessness. This philosophy has\\nbeen explained and made useful to mankind in another book of the\\nauthor s, known as Lessons in Personal Magnetism?\\nIt is well to keep in mind this simple principle which accounts\\nfor the activity of creation. Another way of stating it is this:\\nWhenever electricity is present there is restlessness; restlessness\\nproduces activity; this activity becomes life; life flows forth in\\nchannels established by Nature or habit. It may escape without\\nthe operation of the will in which case it is automatic. Persons\\nof weak will power have this automatic life. If, however, the flow\\nof nerve-force is directed by a conscious control of itself the person\\npossesses a perfect will power. The attainment of this supreme\\ncontrol of that spirit of restlessness, known as life, is the grandest\\naccomplishment of man and should be his chief ambition.\\nThe accumulation of magnetism may be increased by exercises\\nto a marvelous degree. It then requires a greater man or woman\\nback of it to direct its energy into, the proper channels of life. The\\ndemand creates the supply. When a large amount of magnetic\\nforce is present the will power grows to equal it, or automatic\\nescape would lead to ruin.\\nEequikements. It is required of you to accumulate your\\nwill power by specifically directing what magnetism you have into\\na conscious use of it. This may be done by decreeing from the\\nbrain all movements of the body. The result is always pleasant\\nand satisfactory. Magnetism must not be confounded with mes-\\nmerism or hypnotism; these are of no use, generally speaking,\\nwhile magnetism is true life.\\nLosses. At the final reckoning you may estimate your per-\\ncentage on the basis of one hundred. It will be difficult to under-\\nstand how to do this; and if the result is a mere guess it will have\\nto stand. The majority of persons will understand it.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 207\\nLESSON NINETY.\\nNINETIETH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nDIGNITY.\\nSixth Day ox the Heights. Eoad No. 2.\\nThis trait of Character, like many of those On the Heights,,\\nmay be said to be the result of one or more of those which are-\\nfound in the preceding lessons.\\nDignity means the escape from many childish or foolish ways..\\nIt may be natural or assumed. Natural dignity must fall easily\\nupon a person as an inherent part of his personality. It is then a\\ntalent, charming and winning. Assumed dignity is offensive.\\nThe lion s hide cannot fit the calf.\\nDignity is direct. It loses no motions, it makes no automatic-\\nactions; it is not jerky. It has grace of mind, strength of heart,\\nand straightforwardness of action. It does not decrease good-\\nnatured fun but makes flippancy out of place.\\nA good test of this power lies in the ability to rebuke; or in\\nthat carriage of one s self which makes a person the central figure\\nof a group. Stupidity depends upon a silent tongue in order to be-\\nrespected. Dignity can talk and gain admirers. From this class-\\nthe public select their judges, presiding officers and managers of\\nenterprises.\\nTo acquire true dignity the following course of conduct is-\\nrecommended:\\nBe the same at all times whenever the circumstances are sim-\\nilar. If you are morose at one time you are apt to be flippant at.\\nanother. Before performing any unusual act think it over care-\\nfully to see how it will look when done. Before speaking aloud\\nin the presence of another try to hear the remark mentally, to de-\\ntermine how it will sound. If this practice is followed you will\\nsoon form the habit of sifting your own actions and words and.\\nthrowing away the chaff.\\nThis added to your graduation in the School of Character\\nwill render you naturally dignified.\\nMay a person unbend at times?", "height": "4480", "width": "2872", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "208\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nYes. Cultivate good humor. The great judges are often\\njolly, but not silly. If, however, you play the ape at any time, you\\nwill carry the stamp of the monkey on your features, and in your\\nmovements. Get all out of life that you can, hut do not stoop to\\nthe level of the clown in order to find happiness.\\nAs an experiment try to win the respect of the humblest in-\\ndividual you meet. The self-effort required to do this will add to\\nyour character.\\nLosses. Estimate your rank in Dignity on the basis of one\\nhundred per cent.\\nLESSON NINETY-ONE.\\nNINETY-FIRST POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nDISCONTINUE SOME VICE.\\nSeventh Day on the Heights. Road No. 3.\\nThis lesson is intended to enter very closely into your private\\nlife. Its purpose is to draw from you some noble resolve which is\\nto be recorded in your heart, or beyond the sight of earthly eyes.\\nNot even your Ally should know the resolve unless he (or she)\\nstands near to you in affection; and even then a secret like this\\nshould be cautiously imparted to another. What vices have you?\\nThe answer you can make to yourself. Out of the list select any\\none that is as strong as any other one and resolve to discontinue it.\\nA vice is some habit or trait of character which is detrimental\\nto your progress in this study. It may be one of the great vices,\\nlike Intemperance, Gambling, Unchastity, Profanity, Sabbath-\\nbreaking, or Dishonesty.\\nIt may be some deficiency in the qualities of the heart.\\nIn determining what one shall be selected the choice is en-\\ntirely yours. Do not deceive yourself into the belief that you pos-\\nsess no vices at all. Such complete goodness is not of earth. You\\nmay perhaps be able to reduce the list down to laziness or selfish-\\nness, or irritability; but do not decide that you are absolutely per-\\nfect.\\nThe pledge that accompanies this lesson is of great help to\\nthose who have difficulty in conquering such a terrible vice as In-", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n209\\ntemperance. It differs from the ordinary pi edge in its effect for\\nthe reason that it is constantly before yon; whereas the temperance\\npledge is signed and out of sight. Some years ago when the\\nauthor had private pupils (by mail) in this course of training, there\\nwere several men who were brought under the influence of these\\nlessons, who had previously broken their iron clad temperance\\npledge. By following the present system every one of them\\nachieved success in discarding the vice.\\nThe pledge which is hereto annexed should be signed in this\\nbook and the name of the vice or its initial letter should be writ-\\nten or printed upon a card to be carried in the pocket, or part of\\nthe clothing where it will be readily discovered.\\nPledge No. 20.\\nI solemnly promise to select some vice or some bad trait of my\\ncharacter, which I will discontinue. I will write or print the name\\nor initial letter of the same upon some card, which is to be with\\nme at all times; and I will look at this at least daily.\\nLosses. For every failure to comply with the foregoing and\\nfor every yielding to the vice so discontinued, record a loss of one\\nmark.\\nLESSON NINETY-TWO.\\nNINETY-SECOND POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nELEVATED TASTE.\\nEighth Day ox the Heights. Eoad No. 4.\\nHow many persons have poor taste. It is shown in dress,\\nmanners, occupation, amusements, conversation, reading, and\\nchoice of company. Affectation is also the result of very bad taste.\\nThe love of display leads to exaggeration in dress. What be-\\ncomes you should be worn. The prevailing style should be fol-\\nlowed as far as your circumstances easily permit. The young hus-\\nband who had been in wretched poverty, and by a sudden turn\\nof the wheel of fortune had been left twenty dollars by the death", "height": "4468", "width": "2880", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "210\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nof an uncle, and invested the entire amount in a beautiful bonnet\\nfor his wife, who wore it to meeting the next Sunday with a faded\\ncalico dress, affords us an illustration of bad taste.\\nThe ill-assortment of colors, the profuse display of wealth, the\\ncrowding of the fingers with rings, the wearing of jewelry enough\\nto attract attention, are all evidences of bad taste. In the fashion-\\nable parties and balls of any large city, the butchers families^ and\\nthose who have suddenly acquired wealth, come to the front with\\ndiamonds; while those who possess greater wealth and taste re-\\nserve their display for grander and rarer occasions. In the matter\\nof dress and style the aid of your Ally will prove advantageous.\\nYour manners may not be in good taste. Some one should\\nbe consulted. Only conceit will forbid your inquiring of your Ally.\\nHe (or she) will tell you the truth, for no return advice is to be\\ngiven. This must be remembered. You are not to give counsel\\nto your Affirmative Ally. If such were permissible there would be\\nan interchange of opinion tempered by what we receive or expect\\nto receive.\\nYour occupation should be consonant with the aspirations of\\nyour soul. In your home amusements, and in the places you at-\\ntend, you should show an elevated taste. It is an exhibition of low\\ntaste to attend a circus performance, side show, dime museum, va-\\nriety theatre, exhibition of honors, minstrel, ballet, seance, or hyp-\\nnotic exhibition.\\nA classical drama is worthy of the highest taste, as is legiti-\\nmate comedy; but melodrama, low comedy, clog-dancing, topical\\nsongs and gymnastic contortions, as well as the majority of all plays,\\nfeed only the fire of a low taste.\\nUnfortunate subjects are often selected for conversation.\\nNever originate such; and, if you find it in progress, always turn\\nit into a new channel. In reading show an elevated taste; as well\\nas in your choice of companions.\\nLosses. At the final reckoning estimate your rank on the\\nbasis of 100 per cent.", "height": "4476", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHAR ACT Eli 211\\nLESSON NINETY-THREE.\\nNINETY-THIRD POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nHASTE NOT, REST NOT.\\nNinth Day on the Heights. Road No. 1.\\nThe immortal Grerman poet who uttered the words: Haste\\nnot, rest not struck the key-note of many a grand life. Its mean-\\ning must be clearly understood; for it is capable of many appli-\\ncations.\\nIn our interpretation we evolve the following points:\\nA steady purpose in life, attended by unceasing effort, will\\naccomplish all or nearly all that one can desire.\\nThere should be no rush, no intemperate energy, no haste.\\nIn a smaller sense to hurry is to lose time. Here are two\\nbusiness men. Mr. A. comes to his office, full of purpose and with\\nmany things to attend to. He is compelled to hurry to accomplish\\nso much. He takes off his coat at the expense of considerable\\nstrain upon it. His hat is injured by the fall it receives when he\\nattempts to hang it too hastily upon the hook. He unlocks his\\ndesk. It is in confusion. In straightening it out in a hurry he\\nmisplaces an important document that requires two hours to find\\nto-morrow, tips over a bottle of mucilage, and, after spending ten\\nminutes in taking care of it, goes about his work. He hurries and\\nbecomes excited, making many unnecessary errors.\\nMr. B. enters his office in a hurry, hangs his hat up carefully,\\ntakes his coat off with thoughtful deliberation and opens his desk.\\nIt is in good order. Every motion he makes accomplishes some-\\nthing; not one movement is lost. He keeps steadily on, with ap-\\nparent slowness, but with remarkable results.\\nSo in everything we do in daily life, however commonplace,\\nthere can be haste that delays, and deliberation that hurries. It is\\none of the great sources of irritability to hurry, get excited and fail.\\nThe steady man or woman who is cool when others might be ex-\\ncited, who goes calmly on with a smoothness of execution that\\nplows its way through the details of work, is an example worth fol-\\nlowing.", "height": "4476", "width": "2876", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "212\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nIn the selection of friends, new occupation, changes of resi-\\ndence, or in other important matters do not yield hastily to any\\ntemptation to hurry. It rarely occurs that immediate action is\\nnecessary, but when it is, your good judgment must be relied upon.\\nStanding. In this Point of Character you must preserve\\nyour standing by a constant observance of the great principle of\\nHaste not, rest not.\\nSlips. Any slip made in this direction should be recorded\\nwith a loss of one mark.\\nLESSON NINETY-FOUE.\\nNINETY-FOURTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nPOLITENESS.\\nTenth Day on the Heights. Eoad No. 2.\\nThis is the accumulation of nearly all the traits of Character\\nin this road with something added. Politeness is founded on two\\nthings, Kindness and Eefinement, yet it is not complete in these\\ntwo. An unrefined person often has the instinct of politeness, but\\nwe take the will for the deed. He has matter, but lacks manner.\\nAn enemy may be polite without being kind, yet he has the man-\\nner without the matter. Politeness, therefore, is a noble trait.\\nIt is often said to be born in a person; but this is rarely true.\\nAn inheritor of politeness, brought up among selfish boors, would\\nnot show Ms ancestry; while the descendant of the latter class,\\nreared among better influences, would give no trace of his unfa-\\nvored predecession.\\nNothing is more certain than that politeness is easily acquired;\\nand hardly assumed. The pretence of this trait is so thinly clad\\nthat the skeleton shows through the garment. No person can rise\\nabove a mere pretender who reserves all his politeness for special\\noccasions. If you desire to be found in the ranks of the gallant\\nknighthood you must observe the following:\\nEequieements. Begin at home; or, if you have no home,\\nthen at that place which is the nearest approach to it. Do not\\nimagine that politeness, showered upon unworthy individuals, is", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "OXE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 213\\nlost. It may be wasted as to them, but you have gained by it. At\\nthe table you help others, if you are visiting; at home you secure\\nwhat is within your reach for yourself first, and plead for help if\\nyou cannot reach the contents of the whole table. Your little sis-\\nter and brother are vigorous and can secure many things for them-\\nselves by dint of effort. You could pass them several things, and\\nlook kindly after their wants. At the house of friends you would\\nnot sit in ungainly attitudes; but at home you put your feet on the\\nchair nearby, or on the table; and you tip the chair back. This\\nyou do for comfort. But it is not comfortable. It is merely a re-\\nlief from one position. If you are really tired, lie down. If one\\nsitting position is uncomfortable, stand up. Constant changing is\\ngenerally the result of habit, and akin to nervousness. It can be\\neasily conquered. Do not attempt to practice politeness in society,\\nfor the attempt is apparent on its face, and it does not fit you.\\nIndulge in your gallantry at home, and among the humble people\\nof your acquaintance; then will you be able to forget the attempt\\nin your society visits. Study to make every word and deed in\\nevery moment of your private life truly and thoroughly polite.\\nStanding. Your rank in this Point of Character must be\\nestimated by yourself at the taking of the final reckoning.\\nSlips. For each slip record a loss of one mark.\\nLESSON NINETY-FIVE.\\nNINETY-FIFTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nPROGRESS.\\nEleventh Day on the Heights. Road No. 3.\\nCount that day lost whose low descending sun\\nViews from thy hand no worthy action done.\\nIn fulfilling this Point of Character it is required of you that\\nyou accomplish something each day of your life, from the moment\\nyou reach this lesson until it is brought to a close. Your past\\nlessons should be so taken that, at least, one hundred days elapse\\nfrom the time the last is reached before you enter the Citadel.\\nThis would afford over one hundred days for the present lesson.\\nIn the accomplishment of something daily, you are to exclude\\nthe duties of your routine life. Thus a business man must make", "height": "4472", "width": "2876", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "214\\nTHE XEW EDUCATION\\nprogress in matters not connected with the details of business.\\nBut a change for the better in the conduct of his general business\\naffairs, or progressiveness in any outside matter, would count as\\nprogress.\\nA housekeeper would be supposed to attend to her duties\\nwithout suggestion; but to accomplish something in the direction\\nof progress she must make her house brighter, her disposition\\nsweeter, or her mind more cultivated. Any advance in study, any\\nnew idea acquired, any important fact learned, any kindness done,\\nany charity shown, any evil conquered, any temptation overthrown,\\nany step in a higher and nobler plane of life taken these are\\nthings accomplished. You must do something daily. The first\\nday s effort will prove very hard, for you are not accustomed to it;\\nbut if you persevere for a week or two in making this daily prog-\\nress, the habit will soon be fixed, and you will go happily on, with\\na love for the new mode of living. Nothing could bring greater\\npeace of mind. To thousands of human beings, plodding along\\nthe monotonous path of life, this course of self-training will prove\\nan unutterable blessing.\\nAt first you will object to give one minute daily to recording\\nyour progress, but a system of business-like habits will be bene-\\nficial for you in other departments. The entire course of study\\nwill take much less of your daily time than now seems likely; and\\nmany of the things are inseparably attached to the necessary duties\\nof life.\\nSign the following pledge in ink in this book:\\nPledge No. 21.\\nI solemnly promise to accomplish one thing in the line of\\nProgress each day of my life for not less than one hundred and\\nsix days. [These need not be consecutive, but the final reckoning\\ncannot be made until this number has been recorded.] I further\\npromise to make a daily record of one thing so accomplished; and\\nif more than one is achieved, the greater only shall be recorded;\\nsuch record to be made in this book.\\nLosses. When the one hundred and six things have been re-\\ncorded, mark yourself 100 per cent., less one mark for each day\\nomitted from the time this lesson is reached until the final reckon-\\ning is made.", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n215\\nLESSON NINETY-SIX.\\nNINETY-SIXTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nCHAIN OF INFLUENCE.\\nTwelfth Day on the Heights. Eoad No. 4.\\nLast day before unlocking the Gates of the Citadel.\\nWe come now to that place where the happiest moments of\\nyour life should begin. If you are able to grasp the importance of\\nthe Chain of Influence you will find the solace of true friendship\\nin a life where such blessings are said to be rare.\\nBefore proceeding with this lesson you are advised, to go back\\nand become intimately acquainted with the Eules for acquiring an\\nAlly, and the Bond of Friendship.\\nAn Ally is necessary before graduating in the School of\\nCharacter, for it will be impossible to make the final reckoning\\nwithout the aid of a strong friend who shall point out your faults;\\nand especially in time to enable you to correct them.\\nDefinition\\nA Chain of Influence is a series of Record Pupils who enter the\\nSchool of Character entirely at YOUR own solicitation and for whose\\ngraduation in the One Hundred Points of Character YOU alone are\\nresponsible.\\nDo good in the world!\\nMany people yearn for the golden opportunity of accomplish-\\ning some great thing for their fellow-beings. They fail because\\nthey seek to achieve grand results without touching the details.\\nYour influence is constantly at work for good or bad; and that\\ninfluence never dies. It will reach some distant generation yet un-\\nborn, however slight may be its power. You can make it felt for\\ncenturies, if you choose. As the wheel of time moves steadily on,\\nthe hand of fate points to the day when you shall cease from earth.\\nDeath spares none.\\nAs the last stroke of your clock is sounding what will you look\\nback upon with satisfaction? Wealth is a poor legacy to leave to\\nthose you love if nothing else has been given them. But if you", "height": "4468", "width": "2900", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "216\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nhave saved one human soul from the wreck of life s disap-\\npointment; if you have pointed out the pathway to a glorious char-\\nacter, even to one aimless being, you have done your share in\\nmaking the world better. How much more creditable must be a\\nChain of Influence/ reaching into the future, building charac-\\nter for souls whose existence will commence long after you are laid\\nin the ground.\\nYou are the starting link in each chain that originates at your\\ncommand. Each person who comes into the chain is a new link.\\nThis chain will go on forever. If but few links are added in your\\nlifetime^ it will still exist, for each member of. the chain is under\\nobligation to perpetuate it. Unless that obligation is broken\\n(which is not likely, owing to the solemn nature of the oath), a\\nChain of Influence would continue as long as the earth stands.\\nThe value of your influence will be felt in the present day;\\nand you will probably live to see the world affected by the united\\nstrength of so many combined influences. What system can be\\nbetter for checking the evil tendencies of the human race? It fur-\\nnishes a standard to live by, which will be the next best thing to a\\nreligion. In its humble past this School of Character has already\\nproved a valuable adjunct to religion; for there are many worship-\\npers in the various denominations who, by their own testimony,\\nowe this change of heart to the influence of these 1 blessings. And\\nat that time the lessons were not in printed form. There are men\\nand women who have not connected themselves with any church\\nwho are living nobler and grander lives because of this system\\nof self -training.\\nWhat its future may be is not known, but it cannot fail to be-\\ncome a factor in the work of reforming humanity.\\nAs has been stated, an Ally is necessary; but a Chain of In-\\nfluence is not. The choice is yours. If you desire to establish no\\nchain you will be excused from doing so; and the only loss will be\\none per cent, from the grand total. If, however, yon conclude to\\nstart a chain you will receive a marking of perf ect in this lesson as\\nsoon as one link is added. For the purpose of this marking the Ally\\nChain does not count.\\nIt is hoped that yon will establish as many of the various\\nchains as you can, for it is in this way that we hope to spread the\\nusefulness and influence of the School of Character. If each\\nmember will accomplish a little the grand total will become an", "height": "4468", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n217\\nirresistible tidal wave, sweeping before it the degenerating forces of\\nignorance, sin and weakness.\\nThe following Chains of Influence are the only ones that can\\nbe established. This lesson requires that you originate at least one\\nin addition to the Ally Chain. For each additional one after that\\na triumph, equal to one per cent, (or one hundred marks), may be\\nrecorded:\\nChains of Influence.\\nAlly Chain.\\nPerpetual Chain.\\nControlled Chain.\\nGift Chain.\\nHoliday Chain.\\nIntellectual Chain.\\nFriendly Chain.\\nName Chain.\\nReligious Chain.\\nDenominational Chain.\\nRules.\\nRule 1. An Ally Chain shall be composed only of yourself\\nas starter, your Ally as second link, your Ally s Ally as third link,\\nand so on to the end of time.\\nRule 2. A Perpetual Chain shall consist of yourself and one\\nother. Only one person shall be permitted to enter this chain in\\nyour lifetime. Owing to the stringency of this rule, and the de-\\nsire to perpetuate this chain to the end of all time, it is important\\nthat you make the selection with the utmost care. The person se-\\nlected should be one who will probably outlive you, and he should\\nselect his successor with the utmost care. If he should not outlive\\nyou, a new link must be found by you; and this new link will rank,\\nnot as your successor, but as his. Persons known to be persistent,\\nsteadfast and changeless should be selected.\\nRule 3. A Controlled Chain begins with you and dies with\\nyou, although it may be continued after your death by consent of\\nall its members. All other chains are beyond your control after\\none link has been added by you, but in this chain you control all the\\nmembers. Such a union may be turned into a useful and pleasant\\nsociety. The starting link is perpetual President.", "height": "4476", "width": "2876", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "218\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nRule 4. A Gift Chain is composed of a series of links,\\nwhose lesson-book in the One Hundred Points of Character has\\nbeen presented to you, and bears your name and date of presenta-\\ntion. No person shall belong to this chain unless you make such\\na gift to him (or her), although any subsequent link may choose\\nthe next number. This chain will afford you an opportunity for\\nspreading the influence of this system of self -training. No member\\nis allowed to add a successor to the Gift Chain until he has passed\\nthrough the four Workshops. This guarantees good faith on the\\npart of all.\\nRule 5. A Holiday Chain is one established to commem-\\norate some public or religious holiday, or the birthday of yourself\\nor other person. If you admit a member to the School of Char-\\nacter on such a day, the chain thus started is to be named after the\\nday or occasion, as The Christmas Chain, or My Birthday\\nChain, or New Year s Chain.\\nRule 6. An Intellectual Chain is one in which all the mem-\\nbers are selected for their literary or scientific attainments. They\\nare pledged to be of mutual help to each other in such studies as\\nthey may be familiar with.\\nRule 7. A Friendly Chain is composed only of persons, all\\nof whom are congenial to each other.\\nRule 8. A Name Chain is one to which your name is at-\\ntached; it is named after you. The first link of such chain is your-\\nself; the second link must be procured by your solicitation, after\\nwhich the added links are to be added at the will of any preceding\\nmember.\\nRule 9. The same person shall not, under any circum-\\nstances, become a following link in more than one chain, but may be\\na starting link in any number. The object of this is to cause an\\nincrease of membership, so that the influence of these lessons may\\nspread rapidly.\\nRule 10. Each person who adds a member to the chain\\nwhich he has already joined shall be considered a starting link, no\\nmatter how many may precede him in the same chain, for the per-\\npetuation of it depends upon his enterprise.\\nRule 11. A list shall be kept by you in this book containing\\nthe names of all the chains you have started, all the chains of which\\nyou may be a following member, and all the persons who may pre-\\ncede or follow you in each and every chain.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 219\\nRule 12. A Tree of Influence is a chart or a diagram of a\\ntree with your name on the trunk, and the name of your first added\\nmember in one chain on a branch; the first added member in the\\nsecond chain started by you on another branch, and so on, with\\nthe second added member of the first chain as branch of the first\\nbranch, and continuing as long as the influence started by you can\\nbe traced in its divergencies.\\nRule 13. A person who is a following link shall report to\\nhis immediate predecessor only the names of all links that may be\\nadded to any chain of which he is a member; and shall continue so\\nto report until he has been informed of the fact that such infor-\\nmation has been reported to the member next preceding such\\npredecessor.\\nRule 14. All members of a chain who change their permar\\nnent residences shall report the same to all members of every chain\\nof which they form a part.\\nRule 15. You may start one or more chains as soon as you\\nreceive the first lesson in this system, or any time thereafter.\\nRule 16. Any person who starts a Chain of Influence must\\nfirst sign the following pledge in ink:\\nPledge No. 22.\\nI solemnly promise to abide by the foregoing rules in starting\\na Chain of Influence, and before I add a member to the Perpetual\\nChain I will exact from such a member a solemn promise to perpet-\\nuate said chain. Whenever I shall become an added link of any\\nchain started by another, I will abide by the foregoing rules as far\\nas they may apply.\\nIn order to pass one hundred per cent, in this lesson it is\\nnecessary to start at least one Chain of Influence before making the\\nfinal reckoning. This must not be the Ally chain. A start is made\\nas soon as a Record Pupil has been obtained. The link is then at-\\ntached, and upon graduation it is welded into the chain.\\nIn the Perpetual Chain the link must be welded before it can\\nbe counted.\\nNo unwelded link shall be detached from the chain, but shall\\nremain perpetually upon all the records as such, in the hope that\\nsuch member may succeed in graduating.", "height": "4480", "width": "2884", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "220\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nThe Past History\\nof these chains proves their value. All humanity loves fellowship,\\nand good fellowship is preferred to any other kind. Only those who\\nare utterly debased are able to shut their eyes to the good that can\\nbe aroused in every worthy life by a system of ethics like the present\\nSchool of Character. For this reason, and because there are count-\\nless thousands who are yearning for the very food that these pages\\noffer, there is a steadily increasing demand for this course of train-\\ning. It has helped men and women everywhere. It has uplifted\\nyoung men and young women. The most gratifying of all facts is\\nthe placing of this volume in the hands of the youth by fond and\\nhopeful parents.\\nAs this is now the third edition of the present work, we are in\\na position to intelligently review its past ten years of influence, and\\nwe would be remiss iu our duty if we did not cite from the reports\\nwe have received. These quotations are of a generic value. One\\nmay represent the sentiment of a host of others. The most pleas-\\ning of all the results thus far attained is the saving of so many per-\\nsons from evil influences. We quote from the earnest pupils who\\nhave gained in character and won better positions in the world.\\nIn order to rise rapidly and permanently I find that it is necessary\\nto observe every one of the One Hundred Points of Character. Not\\na single one should be slighted, no matter of how little importance\\nit may seem. This is the sentiment of every person who has ac-\\ntually succeeded in reaching grand results.\\nThen we have a series of reports, all concurring in the follow-\\ning facts, or others similar in import. One lady says: I could\\nnever give up certain habits until I joined the School of Character.\\nI feel strong now against all evils. Another says: I have three\\nsons growing into manhood. They were all slaves to faults that\\ngave me much uneasiness. I got the eldest interested in my book on\\nCharacter. He then had his brothers take up the study. They\\nall now have fine natures. I never saw young men rise so rapidly\\nabove their associates and win so much respect and admiration.\\nThey are leaders now. Since then I have established a Holiday\\nChain, and make it a practice to present one young man every JSTew\\nYear s Day with a copy of the book. I cannot readily spare the\\nmoney, but a few pennies saved each day will buy a dozen copies a\\nyear. A lady writes: A young man who had been rather wild", "height": "4476", "width": "2928", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n221\\nenlisted for the war. I did not know him very well, but took the\\nliberty to present him with a Bible and a copy of the School of\\nCharacter. He kept both books and has brought them back with\\nhim. He is reformed and has joined the church. He places a\\ngreat value on the influence of the Bible, and says the book of Char-\\nacter has been helpful to him, each filling important places in his\\nlife.\\nA man of ambition writes: I was asked to become an Ally.\\nAt first I said I would not bother myself about such things. But\\nI got interested, then fascinated, then I went right through in\\nearnest. I will say positively that this School of Character\\nchanged me from a sort of weakling to a strong man. I was an em-\\nployed clerk in a business establishment. The firm noticed a\\nchange in me, and the head called me in and said: We were about\\nto discharge you at the end of the season. Now you have become\\ntoo valuable to us to-let-you go/ He evidently thought I had been\\nwarned. I told him no. I lent him my book on Character, and he\\ngot a copy. I rose rapidly, and am now a partner. If this book\\nwill do so much for me, it will for others. It is my firm resolve to\\nadd one member a month to my Chain of Influence, and your rec-\\nords will show that I am in earnest. He kept his word, and is\\nstill adding to the* chain. He writes again, later on, and says: I\\nhave a fine lot of young men taking hold of this study, and they\\nare going to make representative citizens. He believes in helping\\nto elevate the race.\\nAnother man says: If the people who spend millions of dol-\\nlars annually in educational and philanthropic work could spend a\\nsmall fraction of the amount in bringing men and women into the\\nSchool of Character, they would add to their own noble ranks and\\ndecrease the ranks of those whom they seek to help by charity.\\nAnother says: The smallest grain of seed sown in spreading the\\ninfluence of the School of Character springs up and multiplies in\\nabundance. It is the only influence I know of where no seed\\never fails. A mother writes: I would rather have my daugh-\\nters as they now are since graduating from the School of Character\\nthan to have them as they were before, and millions of wealth\\nadded. It seems like a miracle when I notice the change that can\\nbe wrought by one little book. And we have many thousands! of\\nreports that show the mastery of bad habits, like slang, gossip and\\nothers.", "height": "4476", "width": "2896", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "222\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nIf a person is not utterly selfish there ought not to be a mo-\\nment s hesitation in the matter of starting one or more Chains of\\nInfluence. The improvement in those for whom you hold some\\nregard, as well as in the struggling youth of our generation, will\\npay you the largest dividend of any philanthropic action possible.\\nLESSON NINETY-SEVEN.\\nNINETY-SEVENTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nFikst Cakdinal Point.\\nSELF-CONTROL.\\nUnlocking the North Gate of the Citadel of Character.\\nEnd or Road No. 1.\\nThe key is placed in your hands. The Gate unlocks, but does\\nnot open until the other three have likewise been unlocked. You\\nmay then enter the Citadel. Your footing On the Heights having\\nbeen maintained there many days, you have but kittle left to do.\\nAs the result of the stages on Road No. 1 you should now\\npossess the First Cardinal Point of Character Self -Control.\\nA man who can master himself is fitted for a kingdom. He\\ncan and should rule others.\\nSelf -Control is best seen in the quiet moments of retirement.\\nRun through the entire list of stages on this road, recite them from\\nmemory and see how many of them you have mastered. If any are\\nlacking, proceed at once to meet the deficiency. Have Self-Controi\\nenough to compel yourself to master these. Do not give way to\\nirritability or lack of self-effort.\\nIn the presence of others carry yourself calmly, solidly and at\\nall times under control. You will soon have that magnetic pres-\\nence which draws all people to you. A kingly or queenly bearing\\nwill rest well upon you if you are free from affectation, and have\\nperfect self-mastery. This Cardinal Point is intended to apply\\nmore particularly to the control of your body, and those physical\\ntendencies which help to make or mar the career of everyone. Ex-\\ncitement is generally inexcusable; do not give way to it. It grows", "height": "4476", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n223\\non itself and leads to a hysterical condition, which might never\\nappear if yon maintain self-control.\\nIn as far as yon lack this important trait yon will show it to\\nthose around yon and thns decrease yonr usefulness in life; and if\\nyou have perfect mastery of yourself that likewise appears and\\nimpresses others.\\nThe list of Points of Character which have been given you on\\nEoad No. 1 are now appended. It should be read from the bottom\\nof the page upward, as it more fully portrays your progress in that\\nway.\\nThe 25 Stages of Eoad No. 1, leading to the North Gate:\\nSelf-Control. The First Cardinal Point.\\nTTqc^o Tircf ro.ef nri f\\nXiao I t; ilULj Ic l 11UL. I\\nWill Pmvpr\\nV 111 X U VV t;l\\nf) n th n T-I pi cr h f c\\n\\\\J lb Lilt iitt\u00c2\u00a3/\u00c2\u00a3tO.\\nX tUIl [J Id. llUIl. J\\nGambling.\\nProfanity.\\nDown in\\nExcesses.\\nthe\\nXlOW XlulllUI.\\nDepths.\\nEevenge.\\nExcitement.\\nAdaptation.\\nDirectness. 1\\nOut in\\nHasty Promises.\\nthe\\nSecretiveness.\\nWorld.\\nInfluence.\\nAttention.\\nMemory.\\nCleanliness.\\nAutomatics.\\nExercise.\\nIn\\nHealth of Nerves.\\nS the\\nHealth of Body.\\nWorkshop.\\nIrritability.\\nEight Eising.\\nSelf-Effort.", "height": "4480", "width": "2880", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "224\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON NINETY-EIGHT.\\nNINETY-EIGHTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nSecond Cakdinal Point.\\nKINDNESS.\\nUnlocking the East Gate of the Citadel of Character.\\nEnd of Road No. 2.\\nKindness will unlock any gate or find its way to any heart. It\\nis the key to progress. It implies generosity, for it requires some\\nsacrifice at times. It costs an eff ort, but rarely aught else. Many\\npersons, whose ancestors were near to the savage arrogance of bar-\\nbarous age, believe it is humiliating to yield in any sense to an-\\nother, and therefore, from principle, they never show a kindness.\\nThey keep a stiff reserve, a crusty demeanor for all they meet.\\nSuch people lack one of the Cardinal Points of Character; and being\\none-sided in their growth can never achieve the success in life which\\nmight otherwise have fallen to them. All great people are kind,\\nand often as simple-hearted as children.\\nKindness, like all the Cardinal Points, should begin at home,\\nand retain its growth into naturalness by contact with the humbler\\npeople of life. If reserved for special occasions it shows itself in\\nharsh tones, forced facial expressions, and angular motions. As wo\\nwrite, a group of ladies, now engaged in dissecting the private lives\\nof their acquaintances, will presently give evidence of their real\\nnatures. One, who is trying to show great kindness, has a sharp,\\nhigh-pitched voice, and ugly movements. That kindness is forced.\\nShe says: Oh, indeed, I have known the whole family for years,\\nand they are as nice a people as I ever knew, but there was an awful\\nscandal twenty years ago about the son, although he has grown out\\nof it and been a good man ever since. Then she goes on in an\\nundertone and repeats the whole scandal, in all its horrid details,\\nto four strapping females, who drink it in with gleaming eyes.\\nThey are all from one city, and on their return they will carry four\\nseparate versions, revised and enlarged, of this new scandal, with\\nwhich to blast the reputation of a good family. Probably the story\\nwas pure fiction at the start.", "height": "4476", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 225\\nA person who speaks ill of a human being, or who discusses\\n.fit all the private life of any one, is lacking in the first elements of\\nKindness. But in its larger scope this trait of character embraces\\nall those stages which have preceded it.\\nThe 25 stages of Eoad No. 2, leading to the East Gate.\\nBead from the bottom upward:\\nKindness. The Second Caedinal Point.\\nPoliteness.\\nDignity.\\nEefinement.\\nSuspicion.\\nSlang.\\nSarcasm.\\nPractical Jokes.\\nStratagem.\\nDown in the\\nDepths.\\nCharity.\\nEtiquette.\\nGenerosity.\\nAnonymous Attacks.\\nComparison.\\nSociability.\\nEase.\\nOut\\nin the\\nWorld.\\nConscience.\\nNobility.\\nBiography.\\nLiterature.\\nHome.\\nIn\\nthe\\nWork-\\nShop.\\nFlowers and Music.\\nKind Voice.\\nNature.\\nAbsorption.", "height": "4476", "width": "2876", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "226\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON NINETY-NINE.\\nNINETY-NINTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nThikd Cakdinal Point.\\nEARNESTNESS.\\nUnlocking the South Gate of the Citadel of Character.\\nEnd or Eoad No. 3.\\nA young man, on asking a celebrated banker what one requisite\\nof character would accomplish the highest success in life, received\\nthe reply:\\nBe in earnest.\\nThe same answer has been given ofttimes by noted men. The\\nfirst trait is evolved from the stages which precede it along Eoad\\nNo. 3.\\nBe in earnest with yourself. Do not allow that detracting in-\\nfluence^ laziness to gain possession of you. Plodding activity\\namid the details of life, the earnest purpose attaching to the small\\nnesses of a great plan, achieve the greatest ends. To slight them,\\nor to grow careless as to small things, is the surest way of destroy-\\ning earnestness. Have some well-defined purpose in all you do.\\nWhen you speak do so with some end in view. See the end of the\\nsentence ere you begin it, and make the saying of it worth some-\\nthing.\\nIn all games of amusement play in earnest; so that in the\\nmore serious game of life the habit will cling to you. A good\\nway to learn to read earnestly is to stop at the end of each page\\nand mentally repeat the chief fact acquired and such minor ones as\\ncan be quickly recalled. This habit quickly develops a full reader\\nand a retainer of all that is read. It also strengthens the memory.\\nBe in earnest in all things, great and small, at play or at work,\\nwith children or with elders, with yourself and with all mankind.\\nIt builds character and gains a more enviable reputation. Serious-\\nness is opposed to empty nonsense; Earnestness pushes forward to a\\nwell-defined end and tries with all its might to reach it. Do not\\nconfound this Point of Character with others. If you have Ambi-", "height": "4476", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n227\\ntion, and are in earnest, yon will achieve snccess. A man or woman\\nthoroughly in earnest is a resistless power. Whc ever knew such\\nto fail? Whatever yon make np your mind to accomplish you will\\naccomplish. All success is a question only of Earnestness and pa-\\ntience. Above all things, be in earnest.\\nThe 25 Stages of Road Xo. 3, leading to the South Gate.\\nRead from the bottom upward.\\nEaexestxess. The Thied Caedixal Poixt.\\nProgress. 1\\nDiscontinue Some Vice. On the Heights.\\nIndependence. J\\nFlirting. T\\nDown\\nFlattery.\\nThreatening. in the\\nFlippancy. V\\nFads Depths\\nOut\\nJustice.\\nThoroughness.\\nMovements,\\nPromptness in the\\nDetails.\\nSincerity. World.\\nAlly.\\nCode of Morals.\\nCompletion.\\nExecution.\\nSimplicity.\\nHonesty.\\nSympathy.\\nRetirement.\\nDecision.\\nSeriousness.\\nIn\\nthe\\nWorkshop.", "height": "4460", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "228\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nLESSON ONE HUNDEED.\\nONE HUNDREDTH POINT OF CHARACTER.\\nFottkth Cardinal Point.\\nOPTIMISM.\\nUnlocking the West Gate of the Citadel of Character.\\nEnd of Eoad No. 4.\\nThis is the last of the One Hundred Points of Character. The\\nfourth key has been placed in your hands, and with it the last Gate\\nis unlocked. On the Keystone of the arch, over each Gate within,\\nis seen the Cardinal Point of Character that terminates the Eoad\\nleading thither.\\nThe Four Cardinal Points of Character.\\nNOKTH GATE.\\nSelf -Control\\no\\nTHE\\nWHITE CITADEL\\nOF\\nCHARACTER.\\nSOUTH GATE.\\nEarnestness\\nOptimism is the habit of looking upon the bright side of\\nlife. It leads to happiness, for it sees the other side of every cloud,\\nand beholds the end of disappointment and failure.\\nIt infuses hope into every enterprise and lends a zest to the\\nworking out of its fulfillment. All optimists are cheerful, and\\ntherefore attractable. Cheerfulness makes good health, while de-\\nspondency diminishes the activity of the respiratory organs, thereby\\nproducing ill health.\\nAn optimist is glad to see everybody, and everybody is glad to\\nsee him. His usefulness is enhanced by the fact that he finds easy\\naccess to all people.\\nSuccess comes often to him, for he stops not in the vale of\\ndiscouragement, but keeps on to ultimate victory a thing that\\naccounts for the result of many a battle.", "height": "4472", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n229\\nOptimism is one of the grandest traits of character, and should\\nhe taught to the young, that they may grow up to better and nobler\\nlives. Then, when ill conies, or the bright anticipations of new\\nenterprises are dimmed by failure, they will regard it merely as a\\nstepping-stone to a more solid success.\\nTroubles are light to the optimist, and uncrossed bridges never\\ncause him anxiety; but the pessimist lives in his fears and is con-\\nstantly thinking of crossing bridges that are never reached.\\nThe 25 stages of Road No. 4, leading to the West Gate.\\nRead from the bottom upward.\\nOptimism. The Fourth Cardinal Point.\\nChain of Influence.\\nElevated Taste.\\nLove.\\nInsinuation.\\nSelf-Harm.\\nObstinacy.\\nSulkiness.\\nEnvy.\\nChoice Company.\\nInspire Nobility in Children.\\nInspire Ambition in Others.\\nCredulity.\\nCriticism.\\nGossip.\\nTurning Gossipy Subjects.\\nNewspapers.\\nSabbath.\\nRespect.\\nThought-Control.\\nSuperstition.\\nTact.\\nExamine Discouragement.\\nConquer Failure.\\nAmbition.\\nOn the Heights.\\nDown\\nin the\\nDepths.\\nOut\\nin the\\nWorld.\\nIn\\nthe\\nWorkshop.", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "230\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nThe four Gates are now unlocked, but will not open. You\\nmust sign one more pledge, and pass an examination.\\nThe following should be signed in ink and dated:\\nPledge No. 23.\\nTHE GOLDEN PROMISE.\\nI solemnly obligate myself from this day ever after, as long as I\\nlive, to adopt as a part of my life the Four Cardinal Points of Char-\\nacter: Self -Control Kindness Earnestness and Optimism\\nand to commit to memory the One Hundred stages in the order in\\nwhich I have made them, and to repeat them as often as once a\\nmonth.\\nThe 100 Stages in the order in which they were made:\\n1.\\nSelf-Effort.\\n19.\\nHonesty.\\n2.\\nAbsorption.\\n20.\\nSuperstition.\\n3.\\nSeriousness.\\n21.\\nExercise.\\n4.\\nAmbition.\\n22.\\nLiterature.\\n5.\\nEight Eising.\\n23.\\nSimplicity.\\n6.\\nNature.\\n24.\\nThought-Control.\\n7.\\nDecision.\\n25.\\nAutomatics.\\n8.\\nConquer Failure.\\n26.\\nBiography.\\n9.\\nIrritability.\\n27.\\nExecution.\\n10.\\nKind Voice.\\n28.\\nEespeet.\\n11.\\nEetirement.\\n29.\\nCleanliness.\\n12.\\nExamine Discourage-\\n30.\\nNobility.\\nment,\\n31.\\nCompletion.\\n13.\\nHealth of Body.\\n32.\\nSabbath.\\n14.\\nFlowers and Music.\\n33.\\nMemory.\\n15.\\nSympathy.\\n34.\\nConscience.\\n16.\\nTact.\\n35.\\nCode.\\n17.\\nNerve Health.\\n36.\\nNewspapers.\\n18.\\nHome.", "height": "4476", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n231\\n37. Attention.\\n38. Ease.\\n39. Ally.\\n40. Turning Gossipy Subjects.\\n41. Influence.\\n42. Sociability.\\n43. Sincerity.\\n44. Gossip.\\n45. Secretiveness.\\n46. Comparison.\\n47. Details.\\n48. Criticism.\\n49. Hasty Promises.\\n50. Anonymous Attacks.\\n51. Promptness.\\n52. Credulity.\\n53. Directness.\\n54. Generosity.\\n55. Moments.\\n5 6 Inspire Ambition in Others.\\n57. Adaptation.\\n58. Etiquette.\\n59. Thoroughness.\\n60. Inspire Nobility in Children.\\n61. Excitement.\\n62. Charity.\\n63. /tttfife.\\n64. Choice Companions.\\n75. Threatening.\\n76. Obstinacy.\\n77. Profanity.\\n78. Slang.\\n79. Flattery.\\n80. Self Harm.\\n81. Gambling.\\n82. Suspicion.\\n83. Flirting.\\n84. Insinuation.\\n65. Revenge.\\n66. Stratagem.\\n67. Fads.\\n68. Envy.\\n69. Low Humor.\\n70. Practical Joking.\\n71. Flippancy.\\n72. Sulkiness.\\n73. Excesses.\\n74. Sarcasm.\\n85. TEMPTATION.\\n86. REFINEMENT.\\n87. INDEPENDENCE.\\n88. LOVE.\\n89. WILL POWER.\\n90. DIGNITY.\\n91. DISCONTINUE SOME\\nVICE.\\n92. ELEVATED TASTE.\\n93. HASTE NOT, REST\\nNOT.\\n94. POLITENESS.\\n95. PROGRESS.\\n96. CHAIN OF INFLUENC1\\n97. SELF-CONTROL.\\n98. KINDNESS.\\n99. EARNESTNESS.\\n100. OPTIMiSM.", "height": "4472", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "232 TEE NEW EDUCATION\\nEXAMINATIONS.\\nWhile waiting to enter the Citadel.\\nIf yon have followed the stages faithfully the examinations-\\nwill be much easier than you imagine.\\nPercentages of Graduation.\\nSeventy-five per cent, admits you to the Waiting-room of the-\\nCitadel; and you are regarded as a graduate. You also have per-\\nmission to review the course in the hope of reaching 100 per cent.\\nNinety per cent, admits you to full possession of the Citadel,,\\nexcepting the Throne Room. You are also entitled to a Cer-\\ntificate of Rank. This will be issued by your Ally.\\nNinety-five per cent, admits you to the Throne Room/*\\nYou are also entitled to a written Diploma from your Ally.\\nOne hundred per cent, places you upon the Throne; and your\\nDiploma contains the degree of the Rank of Perfection beauti-\\nfully engrossed thereon; being the highest honor attainable.\\nUpon making your final reckoning you will proceed to esti-\\nmate your percentage. Each Point of Character represents one\\nper cent, if you are perfect in it.\\nOne per cent, is equal to 100 marks.\\nOne hundred per cent, would represent 10,000 marks.\\nAt the end of each of the 100 Lessons will be found Require-\\nments, Losses, Standing, Slips, or some directions in place thereof.\\nBefore proceeding to the Table of Percentages it is well to-\\nunderstand the general demand of each Point of Character.\\nThose marked thus must be observed for 200 days, of which\\n100 must be consecutive and a daily record kept.\\nThose printed in Italics are to be reckoned upon an estimate-\\nformed by the good judgment of yourself and Ally.\\nA Daily Account is necessary for those from 65 to 84.\\nThose having no mark do not require a daily record, except\\nin case of loss, when a loss of the number of marks indicated in\\nthe following tables must be recorded:", "height": "4480", "width": "2920", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER 233\\nThe figures in the table of Losses indicate the record to be made\\nfor each failure. Thus: 1 means a loss of 1 mark.\\nCost of\\nLosses.\\nPercent-\\nCost op\\nLosses\\nI.\\nSelf-Effort*\\nI\\nage.\\n26.\\nBiography\\no\\n2.\\nAbsorption\\nI\\n27.\\nExecution.\\nI\\n3-\\nSeriousness.\\nI\\n28.\\nRespect.\\no\\n4-\\nAmbition.\\nO\\n29.\\nCleanliness\\no\\n5\u00c2\u00ab\\nRight Rising\\nI\\n3\u00c2\u00b0-\\nNobility.\\no\\n6.\\nNature.\\nO\\n3i-\\nCompletion.\\n5\\n7-\\nDecision.\\nI\\n32.\\nSabbath.\\n2\\n8.\\nConn 11 pt T a 1 In re\\nT\\n1\\n65-\\n1 C\\nQ\\n9-\\n\u00c2\u00b11 1 1 id unity\\nI\\nV^UIloClCllCc\\nI\\ni n\\n1 w\\nf\\\\T)7n l/ni/~P\\nl /LU V V LLC\\n35-\\nPride\\nt no\\n1 1\\nRetirement\\nJ\\nTsTew^na ner^\\n-1. 1 V w_7 VJ CX U^.1 J\\nI\\n1 2\\nT^xamine l~)i\u00c2\u00ab;-\\nin\\nA ffen tinn\\no\\ncouragement. J\\n5\\noQ\\no\u00c2\u00b0-\\nEase\\no\\n13-\\n14.\\n15.\\nHealth of Body.\\nFlowers Music.\\nSympathy.\\n1\\n39-\\n40.\\nAlly.\\n1. Ullllllg V^UIl- 1\\nversation.\\nI O COO\\n2\\n16.\\nTact.\\n41.\\nInfluence.\\nI\\n17.\\nNerve Health.\\n42.\\nSociability.\\no\\n18.\\nHome.\\n5\\n43-\\nSincerity.\\nI\\n19.\\nHonesty.\\n1\\n44.\\nGossip\\n3\\n20.\\nSuperstition.\\n1\\n45-\\nSecretiveness\\no\\n21.\\nExercise.\\n1\\n46.\\nComparison\\no\\n22.\\nLiterature.\\n47-\\nDetails.\\no\\n23.\\nSimplicity.\\n48.\\nCriticism\\no\\n24. Thought-Control\\n1\\n49.\\nHasty Promises\\nI\\n25-\\nAuto??iatics.\\n50.\\nAnonymous\\nAttacks.\\nIOO", "height": "4480", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "234\\nTHE NEW EDUCATION\\nThe figures in the table of Losses indicate the record to be made\\nfor each failure. Thus: 1 means a loss of 1 mark.\\nLosses.\\nLosses.\\nPercent\\nAGS.\\n51. Promptness.\\n2\\nAGE.\\n76. Obstinacy, A St.\\n52. Credulity.\\nO\\n77-\\nProfanity,\\n53. Directness.\\n2\\n78.\\nSlang,\\n54. Generosity\\nO\\n79-\\nFlattery,\\n55. Moments.\\nO\\n80.\\nSelf- Harm,\\n56. Inspire Ambition.\\nO\\n81.\\nGambling,\\n57. Adaptation.\\nO\\n82.\\nSuspicion, 11\\n58. Etiquette.\\nI\\n83. Flirting,\\n59. Thoroughness.\\nO\\n84.\\nInsinuation,\\n60. Inspire Nobility.\\nO\\n85. Temptation.\\nI\\n61. Excitement.\\nO\\n86.\\nRefinement.\\nI\\n62. Charity.\\nO\\n87.\\nIndependence.\\nI\\n63. Justice.\\nO\\n88.\\nLove.\\nO\\n64. Choice Company.\\nO\\n89.\\nWill Power.\\nO\\n65. Revenge, A \u00c2\u00a32; t\\n66. Stratagem,\\n90.\\n9i.\\nDignity.\\nDiscontinue\\nSome Vice, j\\nO\\nI\\n67. Fads,\\n92.\\nElevated Taste.\\nO\\n68. Envy,\\n93-\\nHaste not,\\nRest not. 1\\nI\\n69. IyOw Humor,\\n94.\\nPoliteness.\\nI\\n70. Prac. Joking\\n95-\\nProgress.\\nI\\n71. Flippancy,\\n72. Sulkiness,\\n73. Excesses,\\n96.\\n97-\\n98.\\nChain of\\nInfluence, j\\nSelf Control.\\nKindness.\\nIOO\\nO\\nO\\n74. Sarcasm,\\n99.\\nEarnestness\\nO\\n75. Threatening,\\n100. Optimism.\\nO\\nTotal,", "height": "4480", "width": "2912", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "ONE HUNDRED POINTS OF CHARACTER\\n235\\nAt the final reckoning put your percentage in the right-hand\\ncolumn.\\nRead the Requirements and Losses at the end of each lesson;\\nalso the Triumphs. When the final reckoning is made, deduct the\\ntotal losses in each Point of Character from 100 per cent,, and\\nwrite down the remainder in the right-hand column. Add these\\nall together at the end, divide by 100, and you will know your exact\\npercentage.\\nYour Ally will be of great help to you at the time of making\\nthe final reckoning.\\nThe marks attained in the Triumphs should be added to your\\npercentage.\\nClosing Remarks.\\nThis course of training, if properly managed, need not take\\nany of y6ur time. The day is like a barrel full of apples; after\\nthe large ones are in there is plenty of room in the spaces between\\nthem for other things of lesser size. All persons have odd minutes\\nin every day. Some do not know it.\\nMany a student of these lessons has written of the delights ex-\\nperienced in their unfolding and developing processes. Many a\\none has expressed regrets at having to close the book after the last\\npercentage has been estimated. As Charles Dickens was home-\\nsick and lonely for his characters when the novel was done, so the\\nstudent of any system of training that he has learned to love will\\nfind an aching void in saying good-bye to the hallowed associations.\\nDiploma.\\nYour Ally should grant you a Certificate of Graduation pre-\\npared and signed by him. The size, design and wording may be\\nleft to your judgment and his; but we would suggest a beautiful\\npen drawing which can be made by any skilled penman of your\\ncommunity at very trifling expense. This can be framed and\\nhung in your room, or else may be attached to this volume.\\nA genuine Diploma, of the most costly steel engraving, is\\nissued by Ralston University of Washington, D. C, to graduates of\\nthe Ralston Natural College, which is a home course of training,\\ncomprising the best things for every man and woman and ever}\\nyoung man and young woman. We believe Ralston Natural Col-", "height": "4472", "width": "2944", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "236\\nTEE NEW EDUCATION\\nlege to- be better than any other course of education, training,\\nlearning or means of developing the whole man and the whole\\nwoman for the battle of life. It is unparalleled in its effectiveness,\\nthoroughness and rapidity of progress.\\nThe entire School of Character, broad and great as is its scope,\\nis but a very small part of Ralston Natural College.\\nSCHOOL OP CHARACTER.\\n^55^ END\\nor", "height": "4476", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "THE LAW OP LEADERSHIP.\\nThat peculiar force in the personality of an individual which\\ncommands the immediate respect of others is an indefinable term.\\nIt is useless to call it character and there let the matter drop.\\nHere is an example, and we use it because it is divested of all\\ncounter-influences. A man wishing to build up an estate in a lo-\\ncality where every person was a stranger to him advertised for\\ntwenty laborers. It was his intention to appoint one as overseer\\nto look after improvements. Nearly two hundred applicants ap-\\npeared. He selected those who were to his mind a combination of\\nthe best intelligence and strength. He put forty to work for a\\nfew days, at the end of which time he eliminated twenty.\\nHaving done this he sought one to act as overseer, but re-\\nsolved to choose the man who would be most likely to suit him\\nand thus avoid unnecessary changing. From an unsuspected\\npoint of observation he watched the men a half hour daily. There\\nwere three who did more work than the others, and they were\\nvaluable; but it was brute force moving automatically. Others\\nmay have been more honest but were slower and less valuable,\\nalthough equal to the average. There were five who possessed a\\nhigher order of intelligence than the others. From these he se-\\nlected the man who held the respect of the other four, and made\\nhim his overseer. Then he asked himself, why this one man was\\nhis choice. It was not because of freedom from faults, for he was\\nnot much the superior of an .ordinary laborer; he was the best\\nleader of the group, and that was all. It was necessary to select\\none who possessed some leading qualities, or else the others would\\nnever have been controlled. Every group of individuals working\\ntogether must have a leader or their labor will be much in vain.\\nA leader is one who naturally commands a following. To select\\none without such quality would mean failure, as when a man\\nplaced his nephew in charge of a number of men who did not re-\\nspect him.\\nThe same principle is seen in settlements, parties, associa-\\ntions, or other groups of individuals. One person comes to the\\n237", "height": "4476", "width": "2932", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "238\\nTHE NE W ED UCA Tl ON\\nfront. Two or more may be qualified, in which case a conflict of\\nleaders will ensue. Ability alone is not sufficient. Character\\ncauses its subject to acquire greater ability. The latter quality\\nmay be accompanied by good or bad features, by arrogance, selfish-\\nness, dishonesty or disagreeable methods, so that the able man re-\\npels; and this is too often true. He lacks very many of the ele-\\nments of character, and therefore cannot become a leader except\\nby sheer force. But if he possesses ability and cultivates char-\\nacter, he will become a natural leader; or if he lacks ability and\\ncultivates character he will soon possess the former and become a\\nleader. In other words, character imparts personal power, or it\\nwould not be character.\\nBut then comes the fact that personal power does not ensure\\nleadership of itself, unless it is accompanied by character. Thus\\nwe see that one of the results of character may exist indepen-\\ndently of its parent; a seeming contradiction that is explained\\nwhen we say that ability or personal power is brought into exist-\\nence by the vitality of character, although it more often appears\\nas the result of other agencies. There is such a thing as ability\\nwithout character, but there is no such thing as character without\\nability. The latter has so many stamps, so many varieties, that\\nthe question may be asked, what is real ability?\\nSo much information has been obtained by years of observa-\\ntion that we present the well-known results of this study in a few\\nplain statements. We draw instances almost at random, for there\\nare numberless accounts that prove the same principle. The re-\\nports here embodied are from young men and men of matured\\nyears. Ladies have been successful in obtaining leadership, but\\ntheir opportunities have been much more limited than those of\\nthe other sex.\\nA man, who styled himself as mean and disliked, ascertained\\nthe opinions in which he was held by others, and they were dis-\\ncreditable, although he was getting along well with his own affairs.\\nHe cast about for some course of study, and tried the first things\\nthat occurred to him. All at once he realized that he possessed\\nsome ability and no character strength. He wrote to us for ad-\\nvice, took up this study, developed what he most needed, and was\\nable to win the richest measure of respect from the very public\\nthat had pessimized him. This was a triumph. He asked the\\nquestion whether the man who had been without honor in his", "height": "4480", "width": "2928", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "THE LAW OF LEADERSHIP\\n239\\nown country could more easily win leadership elsewhere; but he\\nrapidly secured the prize, and replied to his own inquiry by say-\\ning, I could not have progressed more rapidly with strangers,\\nand I have the satisfaction of conquering those who disregarded\\nme. He had forced a repeal of the old adage.\\nA young man wished to be president of a very influential liter-\\nary society, of which he had been a member for several years. He\\nqualified himself, but he lacked the courage to ask votes. I will\\nnever do that, he wrote us, in making application for this course\\nof lessons on character; I wish to acquire qualities that will at-\\ntract attention. Two years later he wrote, I am now president\\nof the society, and I never asked for a vote. I know certainly and\\nsurely that the study of character did this for me. I have no\\ndoubt of it.\\nA young man, whose case is similar to that of thousands who\\nhave been h elped by this training, wrote that he wished to be-\\ncome a political leader. He asked for the two works on magnet-\\nism, what are now the books known as the Cultivation of Per-\\nsonal Magnetism, and Universal Magnetism. In response to\\nhis earnest letters and statement that he would gladly pay hun-\\ndreds, if not thousands of dollars, for the results if they could be\\nattained, we assured him that the two courses of training in\\nmagnetism and that of character would give him everything he\\nwished, and this we then guaranteed, as we do now. He accepted\\nour advice. Thousands have done the same. Not one case of\\nfailure has occurred.", "height": "4476", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "THE NEXT STEP\\n(N THE MAKING OF A GREAT PERSONALITY IS\\nRALSTON ETIQUETTE\\nAND THE\\nEINSL STEP IS\\nYOUR TEMPERAMENT\\nBEHIND\\nCLOSED DOORS", "height": "4480", "width": "2948", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "7 3", "height": "4444", "width": "2904", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "i Fix?, *7i i\\n^0\\nx0", "height": "4476", "width": "2936", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "V\\n,0 c.\\ns", "height": "4448", "width": "2900", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4706", "width": "3110", "jp2-path": "neweducation00shaf_0248.jp2"}}