The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1908-11-28
THE FUNDAMENTALS OF
SUCCESS.
By Miss Minnie L. Bowers.

Success. my boy, is the aim of all;
But to live that life to it's full,
You want to get there through the
door marked Push
And not through the door marked
Pull"
The instinct of the human race is
aggressive Ages of contention with
opposing elements and persistent OBJ
stacles have Injured mankind to battle
for it's progress. All the world is
pushing onward toward some end, and
each Individual instinct with some
portion of this universal aggressive
ness. Therefore the disposition of
the strong and successful is to ignore
or cast away the weak and defeated.
In the times of the nomad state of
human life, among primitive tribes,
this disposition reveals itself in vul-
gar and realistic attitudes.
The feeble, sick, aged and worth
less were either left to die upon the
highways and in the forests, or were
killed and thrown aside as dead an
mails Germinally this same disposi-
ton, or phase of discipline, is exhib
tied among the bees, when the hive
is cleansed of all the worthless
drones in a general slaughter. Only
the workers, such bees as can pro-
duce the honey, which is SO neces-
sary for the approaching winter, are
allowed to remain. Here We find no
sense of pity for the illy-born. The
creed is purely economic; the demand
being for food, all other conSidera-
tons are abrogated.
Much of this same sentiment pre-
walls among mankind, greatly molli-
fled however, as civilization advances,
sympathy to some extent displacing
utilitarianism.
Be this as it may, it is well that
We engage in the battle of life with
this assurance in our minds-that the
world will care little for US unless
We can make good our claim to an
existence-the proof of our neces-
sity to humankind.
The silly cry is often heard ex-
pressed on the lips of those who are
but neer-do-wells, "The world owes
me a living and l am bound to get
it," The world owes you nothing, but
you owe everything to the world.
You owe to it your life, your insplr-
alton, your opportunity, your charac-
ter. 1t is } yaur business to prove to
the world that it has so endowed
you as to permit you to keep place
in it's midst Should you fail to do
this the world will express little re-
gret; at best it need but apologize for
all incidental blunder. AS it makes
no boast of perfection, it will suffer
but slight humiliation.
The foremost essential of human
existence is moral courage. With
out this quality there is left but lit
tie hope of success. With it, in
sufficient degree, there is scarcely
gate that will not open to ones de-
mand, scarcely an opportunity that
cannot be forced from the unwilling
hand of fate.
Moral courage must not be con-
fused with physical courage. Many a
man who can, with the utmost cour-
ase, face the storm of a mob or the
mouth of cannon, fails utterly to
screw his courage to the sticking
point, when he looks into the deep
eyes of the woman he loves, to re-
Ques. Le1 for the honor of her hand.
Marlborough unflinchingly faced the
weapons of Blenheim, but turned
moral coward in a domestic crisis.
Young NARROW, in Goldsmiths 'She
Stoops to Conquer" was a paragon
of reckless bravery and pugilistic
abandon in the company of his pals,
but the meekest and most retiring
coward imaginable when confronted
by the dazzling glances of bewitch-
ing damsel.
In Abraham Lincoln's political cam
paign there was exhibited one of the
most remarkable and startling mani
festations of moral courage that his
tory has for some time recorded.
This unschooled, backwoods, un-
attractive boy, of the humblest par
entage, reading Blackstone in his
spare moments behind the counter of
country store, made this reply to
his taunting companions, oomeday l
shall quit storekeeping and go to con-
gress. Moral courage won for him
a reputation as an orator and an in
defatigabIe campaigner, and just how
well he kept the faith is known to
all. He has proved that an unswerv-
ing resolution combined with courage
even in the face of hereditary indis-
position and almost insurmountable
Obstacles, will prevail. 1t was the
story of Napoleon over again, There
are no Alps" Courage is it's own
reward, and the maker of its own
destiny.
Another important requisite for
reaching the goal of success is a,
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