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ored by it; takes on its character; be-
comes like it. You can read mans
character if you know his ideal, for
this always dominates his life.
One of the most hopeful signs in our
civilization today is the evolution in
ideals. In every department of life
our ideals or ambition are becoming
higher purer, cleaner. Our march
of progress and improvement is so
rapid that it requires a greater am
bition, loftier ideals, higher order of
achievement in every line of endeavor
than formerly.
Ideals are like the stars. You may
not succeed in touching them with
your hands, but like the sea-faring
man on the desolate waters, you
choose them as your guides and, fol-
lowing them, reach your destiny"
Our ideals are great character
molders, and have a tremendous life
shaping influence. Our hearts habit
ual desire soon shows itself in the
face; outpictures itself In the life.
| We cannot long keep from the face
that which habitually lives i'll our
minds.
We develop the quality of the
thought, emotion, ideal, or ambition
which takes the strongest hold upon
us. Therefore let everything in you
point toward superiority, nobility.
Let there be an upward trend in your
thinking Resolve that you will never
have anything to do with inferiority
| in your thoughts or your actions; that
whatever you do shall bear the stamp
| of excellence.
This upreaching of the mind, this
stretching of the mentality toward
| higher ideals and grander things, has
an elevating, transforming influence
which tends to lift the whole life to
higher levels.
The trouble with many men is that
their ideals are too loR, too common,
too dull. They do not keep their hope
bright or aspire enough. They live
in their animal senses. We must as
pire IL we would rise. We cannot
climb while looking down. The am
bition must always precede the
achievement The higher civilization
climbs, the higher the ambition; the
higher the ambition the finer the peo-
pie.
Professor James Mark Baldwin,
the well-known psychologist, last
winter delivered a remarkable lee
ture in Paris on French and Ameri-
can Ideals" in which he said the
French ideal is intellectual vision;
the American ideal that of practical
| life. These two civilizations" he
said, represent contradictory ele-
ments of the full human IDEAL, and
each should draw more fully on the
other"
To produce an ideal man capable of
bringing to bear the greatest amount
of personal power is the great aim
of race development. This man will
be proportionate. symmetrical. bal
anced. Wilderness will be character
| istic of him. The ultimate aim is
not to produce the greatest artist,
lawyer, merchant or statesman. but
the greatest man-symmetrically de-
Veloped, strong because of the har-
mony of his faculties
Ones ambition and ideals need con-
slant watching and cultivation in
order to keep the standards up. Many
people are so constituted that their
! ambition wanes and their ideals drop
when they are alone, or with care
less, indifferent people. They require
the constant assistance, suggestion,
prodding, or example of others TO
| keep them up to standard.
! recall a once prominent man who,