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Reply.
This is a sample Of the quests that
people are engaged upon and OF the re-
Guests for aid in their pursuits Men
have always been after much the same
thineS-health wealth. happiness, pow
trolling the future. discovering the Sc
cret Of nature. ruling others How they
pursue their quests depends upon their
states OF mind and the state OF HaoWi-
edge OF their times and their class.
Even the best of minds in oloen GAYS
believed in strange methods OF pursuit
and strange quests, Some believed IN
q philosophers stone" which II you
could find it would unlock the secrets
OF the universe and give you all power,
like AlS66in's lamp or ts>e magic car
pet. making youT wishes come true. The
alchemiSt'S guest was for formula 10
convert the baScr ms as into gold An
other quest was for The elixir Of life 10
make men live long ia good health.
Another quest was for the fountain OF
youth. snd some. like Faust. were ready
70 sell their souls 10 the devil 10 obtain
these ends.
Well. we have tYaveled long way Oh
the road 70 knowledge since those days,
ard yet IN some respects not so lar.
Some os these older quests we're IDLE
dreams. ali in place in myths and fairy
tales hut not to be taken seriously in
the practical quests Of which real life
consists Yet notions Of all kinds are
still popular that one can attain these
much desired ends by magical means,
We show our intelligence IN the way
We 30 about the pursuit Of our quests.
One general reply to such requests
for a success formula is that anybody
wi-o could produce one would not need
10 do anything else. He could be both
busy and comfortable II he succeeded
In producing any one OF them But
that doesn't mean that TO one can help
or that the requests are out Of place.
II does mean that YOU must be reason
Sv. hall sE
under the temptation of trying to he
al things 10 al men and overTeaching
itself All science is modest: be sus-
picious Of srStenls that promise too
much.
Here we have the art OF persuasion.
breaking records on the track and drsv-
Ing out fears and bad thouchts-an
legitimate guests making q common
request for psychology 70 help them out.
Il isn't too much 20 say that this Is
large order. and its only sample Of
much larger order.
Now there is one thing 20 which all
OF these orders are subject, and that is
the order of Nature: and by Nature.
though We are al fearfuily and
voadrously made, We are not built on
the same lines
! should like 20 persuade a good
many people who differ with me on
good many issues that am right and
they are wrong and that they would
be much better OF If they adopted my
xiews And I should have quite q little
satisfaction IN doing anything better
than anybody else and being any kind
Of q champaon AS for driving soTTy
and dull care away that would please
me most OF al But ! shall have 10 be
content with q modest place IN all Of
these quests.
IN the quest for perSuasiyeness one
can only say. il all depends upon your