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90 have been done by it. Then there is mental power higher than physical, and making it doubly effective. It is really the mind, that from the depths brings up the precious metals for man’s use, and brings down from the clouds the electric forces to be man’s messenger.

It was the power of mind that sent men over the distant seas discovering continents, and opening broader dominions for new peoples, and higher civilizations. It is mind that has made the new discoveries which have been turned into useful inventions, and taken great truths, and wrought them into forms of literature which have been for the instruction and delight of many generations. Who can measure the power of the human mind? But the kind of Power we are more interested in here is Character. Only those who have it can realize the greatest good. Those who have used their powers for selfish ambition have done nothing for the world, and mankind, and little for themselves, Character then is the surest pledge of usefulness. But before we go further it is well for us to find out what is character and state the way we wish to use it.