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 THE FORGING OF PASSION INTO POWER

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY

is a book for those who have leisure to think. To the hasty reader and the careless critic it has nothing to say, beyond bidding them God-speed in the perusal of any kind of literature which suits their state of mind.

I am writing for such persons as these:—

For the voyager to far countries, who can take one or two small volumes in his small luggage. It may help him to prepare for a better understanding of the relation between the people he is leaving behind and those whose acquaintance he is about to make.

For the young mother, who has a little time to read on Sunday evening after her baby has gone to sleep, and plenty of time to think over what she has read while she makes its clothes or holds it to her breast. It may help her to steer the child into something like its true place in the world in which it will have to live.

For the cloistered sister who is beginning to wonder why she cut herself off from the joys which other 21