1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Energy. Energy is the working power in all achievement. Inert 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,759 Coal converts it into fire, and water transmutes it into steam. 3 00:00:11,599 --> 00:00:16,960 It vivifies and intensifies the commonest talent until it approaches 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,879 to genius, and when it touches the mind of the 5 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:24,039 dullert it turns into a living fire that which before 6 00:00:24,199 --> 00:00:29,160 was sleeping in inertia. Energy is a moral virtue, its 7 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:34,560 opposing vice being laziness. As a virtue, it can be cultivated, 8 00:00:35,119 --> 00:00:39,200 and the lazy man can become energetic by forcibly arousing 9 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:44,399 himself to exertion. Compared with the energetic man, the lazy 10 00:00:44,439 --> 00:00:48,320 man is half alive. Even while the latter is talking 11 00:00:48,359 --> 00:00:51,640 about the difficulty of doing a thing, the former is 12 00:00:51,679 --> 00:00:55,439 doing it. The active man has done a considerable amount 13 00:00:55,439 --> 00:00:59,119 of work before the lazy man has roused himself from sleep. 14 00:01:00,079 --> 00:01:03,280 While the lazy man is waiting for an opportunity, the 15 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:07,640 active man has gone out and met and utilized half 16 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,280 a dozen opportunities. He does things while the other is 17 00:01:11,359 --> 00:01:15,400 rubbing his eyes. Energy is one of the primary forces. 18 00:01:16,159 --> 00:01:19,760 Without it, nothing can be accomplished. It is the basic 19 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:24,159 element in all forms of action. The entire universe is 20 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:31,760 a manifestation of tireless though inscrutable energy. Energy is indeed life, 21 00:01:32,359 --> 00:01:35,599 and without it there would be no universe, no life. 22 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,040 When a man has ceased to act, when the body 23 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,799 lies inert and all the functions have ceased to act, 24 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,079 then we say he is dead. And in so far 25 00:01:46,159 --> 00:01:49,319 as a man fails to act, he is so far dead. 26 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:55,079 Man physically and mentally is framed for action and not 27 00:01:55,159 --> 00:01:59,200 for swinish ease. Every muscle of the body, being a 28 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,840 lover for exertion, is a rebuke to the lazy man. 29 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:07,719 Every bone and nerve is fashion for resistance. Every function 30 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:12,280 in faculty is there for a legitimate use. All things 31 00:02:12,319 --> 00:02:16,400 have their end in action, All things are perfected in use. 32 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:21,560 This being so, there is no prosperity for the lazy man, 33 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:26,719 no happiness, no refuge, and no rest for him. There 34 00:02:26,759 --> 00:02:29,719 is not even the ease which he covets, for he 35 00:02:29,759 --> 00:02:35,159 at last becomes a homeless, outcast, a troubled, harried, despised man. 36 00:02:35,759 --> 00:02:39,439 So that the proverb wisely puts it, the lazy man 37 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:43,639 does the hardest work, in that, avoiding the systematic labor 38 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:48,199 of skill, he brings upon himself the hardest lot yet. 39 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:52,680 Energy misapplied is better than no energy at all. This 40 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,280 is powerfully put by Saint John in the words I 41 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,840 would have you either hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, 42 00:03:00,039 --> 00:03:03,400 I will spew you out of my mouth. The extremes 43 00:03:03,439 --> 00:03:07,639 of heat and cold here symbolize the transforming agency of 44 00:03:07,759 --> 00:03:13,000 energy in its good and bad aspects. The lukewarm stage 45 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:18,159 is colorless, lifeless, useless. It can scarcely be said to 46 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:23,400 have either virtue or vice, and is merely barren, empty, fruitless. 47 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,639 The man who applies his abounding energy to bad ends 48 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,439 has at the very power with which he strives to 49 00:03:31,479 --> 00:03:36,919 acquire his selfish ends, will bring upon him such difficulties, pains, 50 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,599 and sorrows that will compel him to learn by experience, 51 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,240 and so at last to refashion his base of action. 52 00:03:45,439 --> 00:03:48,879 At the right moment, he will turn round and cut 53 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,919 new and proper channels for the outflow of his power, 54 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,080 and he will then be just as strong and good 55 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,439 as he was formerly in evil. The truth is beautifully 56 00:03:59,479 --> 00:04:03,680 crystallized in the old proverb, the greater the sinner, the 57 00:04:03,719 --> 00:04:08,599 greater the saint. Energy is power, and without it there 58 00:04:08,639 --> 00:04:12,159 will be no accomplishment. There will not even be virtue. 59 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,439 For virtue does not consist of not doing evil, but 60 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:21,439 also primarily of doing good. There are those who try, 61 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:26,439 yet fail through insufficient energy. Their efforts are too feeble 62 00:04:26,519 --> 00:04:31,519 to produce positive results. Such are not vicious, and because 63 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,920 they never do any deliberate harm, are usually spoken of 64 00:04:34,959 --> 00:04:38,759 as good men that fail. But to lack the initiative 65 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,800 to do harm is not to be good. It is 66 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:45,879 only to be weak and powerless. He who is truly 67 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,800 a good man, having the power to do evil, yet 68 00:04:49,879 --> 00:04:53,240 chooses to direct his energies in ways that are good 69 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,800 without a considerable degree of energy. Therefore there will be 70 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:02,519 no moral power. What good there is will be latent 71 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,959 in sleeping. There will be no going forth of good, 72 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,920 just as there can be no mechanical motion without the 73 00:05:09,959 --> 00:05:14,879 motive power. Energy is the informing power in all doing, 74 00:05:15,079 --> 00:05:18,959 in every department of life, whether it be along material 75 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,720 or spiritual lines. The call to action, which comes not 76 00:05:23,759 --> 00:05:26,560 only from the soldier, but from the lips or pen 77 00:05:26,639 --> 00:05:30,000 of every teacher in every grade of thought, is a 78 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,360 call to men to rouse their sleeping energy and to 79 00:05:33,399 --> 00:05:37,160 do vigorously the task in hand. Even the men of 80 00:05:37,199 --> 00:05:41,879 contemplation and meditation never cease to rouse their disciples to 81 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,759 exertion in meditative thought. Energy is alike needed in all 82 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,079 spheres of life. And not only are the rules of 83 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:54,279 the soldier, the engineer, and the merchant rules of action, 84 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,199 but nearly all precepts of the saviors, sages, and saints 85 00:05:59,639 --> 00:06:03,399 are recepts of doing. The advice of one of the 86 00:06:03,439 --> 00:06:09,000 great teachers to his disciples, keep wide awake tersely expresses 87 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:13,079 the necessity for tireless energy if one's purpose is to 88 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:17,319 be accomplished, and is equally good advice to the salesman 89 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,879 as to the saint. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, 90 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:26,360 and liberty is the reaching of one's fixed end. It 91 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,759 was the same teacher that said, if anything is to 92 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,160 be done, let a man do it at once, let 93 00:06:33,199 --> 00:06:37,199 him attack it vigorously. The wisdom of this advice is 94 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:41,319 seen when it is remembered that action is creative, that 95 00:06:41,439 --> 00:06:47,399 increase and development follow upon legitimate use. To get more energy, 96 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:52,519 we must use to the full that which we already possess. 97 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,959 Only to him that is given only to him that 98 00:06:56,079 --> 00:06:59,600 puts his hand vigorously to some task does power and 99 00:06:59,639 --> 00:07:05,160 freedom come. But energy to be productive must not only 100 00:07:05,199 --> 00:07:09,319 be directed towards good ends. It must be carefully controlled 101 00:07:09,319 --> 00:07:14,639 and conserved. The conservation of energy is a modern term 102 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,720 expressive of that principle in nature by which no energy 103 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,480 is wasted or lost, and the man whose energies are 104 00:07:22,519 --> 00:07:27,160 to be fruitful in results must work intelligently upon this principle. 105 00:07:28,079 --> 00:07:31,959 Noise and hurry are so much energy running to waste, 106 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:38,319 more haste, less speed. The maximum of noise usually accompanies 107 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:42,160 the minimum of accomplishment. With much talk, there is little 108 00:07:42,199 --> 00:07:46,839 doing working steam is not heard. It is the escaping 109 00:07:46,879 --> 00:07:51,000 steam which makes a great noise. It is the concentrated 110 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,360 powder which drives the bullet to its mark. In so 111 00:07:55,519 --> 00:07:58,959 far as a man intensifies his energies by conserving them 112 00:07:59,399 --> 00:08:03,800 and trading them upon the accomplishment of his purpose, just 113 00:08:03,879 --> 00:08:07,879 so far does he gain quietness and silence in repose 114 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,720 and calmness. It is a great delusion that noise means power. 115 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,279 There is no great baby than the blustering boaster. He 116 00:08:17,399 --> 00:08:20,800 is but an infant mentally, and having no strength to 117 00:08:20,839 --> 00:08:24,720 do anything and no work to show, he tries to 118 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,160 make up for it by loudly proclaiming what he has 119 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:32,080 done or could do. Still waters run deep, and the 120 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:37,279 great universal forces are inaudible. Where calmness is there is 121 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:41,840 the greatest power. Calmness is the sure indication of a strong, 122 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:47,799 well trained, patiently disciplined mind. The calm man knows his business, 123 00:08:48,279 --> 00:08:51,919 be sure of it. His words are few, but they 124 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,159 tell His schemes are well planned, and they work true. 125 00:08:56,919 --> 00:09:00,559 Like a well balanced machine. He sees a long way 126 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:06,279 ahead and make straight for his object. The enemy difficulty 127 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,759 he converts into a friend and makes profitable use of him, 128 00:09:11,519 --> 00:09:14,519 for he has studied well how to agree with his 129 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:18,200 adversary while he is in the way with him. Like 130 00:09:18,279 --> 00:09:24,519 a wise general, he has anticipated all emergencies. Indeed, he 131 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:29,240 is the man who is prepared beforehand in his meditations, 132 00:09:29,879 --> 00:09:34,039 in the counsels of his judgment. He has conferred with causes, 133 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,720 and has caught the bent of all contingencies. He has 134 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,960 never taken by surprise, is never in a hurry, is 135 00:09:43,039 --> 00:09:46,519 safe in the keeping of his own steadfastness, and is 136 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:50,159 sure of his ground. You may think you have got him, 137 00:09:50,759 --> 00:09:54,279 only to find the next moment that you have tripped 138 00:09:54,279 --> 00:09:57,639 in your haste and that he has got you, or 139 00:09:57,759 --> 00:10:02,399 rather that you want in calmness, have hurried yourself into 140 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:06,679 the dilemma which you have prepared for him. Your impulse 141 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,759 cannot do battle with his deliberation, but is foiled by 142 00:10:10,799 --> 00:10:15,799 the first attack. Your uncurbed energy cannot turn aside the 143 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:20,759 wisely directed steam of his concentrated power. He is armed 144 00:10:20,799 --> 00:10:25,360 at all points by a mental jiu jitsu acquired through 145 00:10:25,399 --> 00:10:29,039 self discipline. He meets opposition in such a way that 146 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:34,200 it destroys itself Upbraid him with angry words, and the 147 00:10:34,279 --> 00:10:37,919 reproof hidden in his gentle reply searches to the very 148 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,279 heart of your folly, and the fire of your anger 149 00:10:41,399 --> 00:10:45,639 sinks into the ashes of remorse. Approach him with a 150 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,279 vulgar familiarity, and his look at once will fill you 151 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:53,879 with shame and brings you back to your senses. As 152 00:10:53,879 --> 00:10:57,000 he is prepared for all events, so is he ready 153 00:10:57,039 --> 00:11:00,240 for all men, though no men are ready for him. 154 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:05,039 All weaknesses are betrayed in his presence, and he commands 155 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:11,600 by an inherent force which calmness has rendered habitual and unconscious. Calmness, 156 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:16,039 as distinguished from the dead placidity of languor, is the 157 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:21,519 acme of concentrated energy. There is a focus mentality behind it. 158 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:27,519 In agitation and excitement, the mentality is dispersed, It is 159 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:33,480 irresponsible and is without force or weight. The fussy, peevish, 160 00:11:33,919 --> 00:11:38,799 irritable man has no influence. He repels and not attracts. 161 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,559 He wonders why his easygoing neighbor succeeds and is sought after, 162 00:11:44,279 --> 00:11:49,360 while he, who is always hurrying, worrying, and troubling the miscalls, 163 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:55,559 is striving false and is avoided. His neighbour, being a 164 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,960 calmer man, is not more easy going, but more deliberate, 165 00:12:00,759 --> 00:12:04,679 gets through more work, does it more skillfully, and is 166 00:12:04,759 --> 00:12:08,679 more self possessed and manly. This is the reason of 167 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:13,240 his success and influence. His energy is controlled and used, 168 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:19,679 while the other man's energy is dispersed and abused. Energy, then, 169 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,759 is the first pillar in the temple of prosperity, and 170 00:12:23,879 --> 00:12:27,919 without it, as the first and most essential equipment, there 171 00:12:27,919 --> 00:12:33,360 can be no prosperity. No energy means no capacity, There 172 00:12:33,399 --> 00:12:38,279 is no manly self respect and independence. Amongst the unemployed, 173 00:12:38,879 --> 00:12:42,200 there will be found many who are unemployable through sheer 174 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,240 lack of this first essential work of energy. The man 175 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,120 that stands many hours a day at a street corner 176 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:52,200 with his hands in his pockets and a pipe in 177 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,080 his mouth waiting for someone to treat him to a 178 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:59,600 glass of beer. Is little likely to find employment or 179 00:12:59,639 --> 00:13:02,919 to exc accept it should it come to him. Physically 180 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:07,279 flabby and mentally inert he is every day becoming moresome, 181 00:13:07,879 --> 00:13:11,840 is making himself more unfit to work and therefore unfit 182 00:13:11,879 --> 00:13:16,559 to live. The energetic man may pass through temporary periods 183 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:20,639 of unemployment and suffering, but it is impossible for him 184 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,320 to become one of the permanently unemployed. He will either 185 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:28,080 find work or make it, for inertia is painful to him, 186 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:31,720 and work is a delight, and he who delights in 187 00:13:31,799 --> 00:13:36,440 work will not long remain unemployed. The lazy man does 188 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,600 not wish to be employed. He is in his element 189 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:43,919 while doing nothing. His chief study is how to avoid exertion, 190 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,960 to vegetate, and semi torpor is his idea of happiness. 191 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:54,679 He is unfit and unemployable. Even the extreme socialist, who 192 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,039 places all unemployment at the door of the rich, would 193 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:03,279 discharge a lazy, neglectful, an unprofitable servant, and so add 194 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:07,039 one more to the arm of the unemployed. For laziness 195 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,639 is one of the lowest vices, repulsive to all active, 196 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:15,799 right minded men, But Energy is a composite power. It 197 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:19,879 does not stand alone. Involved in it our qualities which 198 00:14:19,919 --> 00:14:23,200 go into the making of vigorous character and the production 199 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:28,360 of prosperity. Mainly, these qualities are contained in the four 200 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:41,480 following characteristics one promptitude, two vigilance, three industry four earnestness. 201 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:46,720 The pillar of energy is therefore a concrete mass composed 202 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:52,080 of these four tenacious elements. They are thorough, enduring, and 203 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:57,000 are calculated to withstand the wildest weather of adversity. They 204 00:14:57,039 --> 00:15:03,440 are all make for life, power, capacity, and progress. Promptitude 205 00:15:03,559 --> 00:15:09,799 is valuable possession. It begets reliability. People who are alert, prompt, 206 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,840 and punctual are relied upon. They can be trusted to 207 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,960 do their duty and to do it vigorously and well. 208 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:21,120 Masters who are prompt are a tonic to their employees 209 00:15:21,639 --> 00:15:23,879 and a whip to those who are inclined to shirk. 210 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,000 They are a means of wholesome discipline to those who 211 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:32,840 would not otherwise discipline themselves. Thus, while aiding their own 212 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:37,480 usefulness and success, they contribute to the usefulness and success 213 00:15:37,559 --> 00:15:43,080 of others. The perfunctory worker, who is ever procrastinating and 214 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:47,519 is always behind time, becomes a nuisance if not to 215 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:52,080 himself to others, and his services come to be regarded 216 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:57,840 as of little economic value. Deliberation and dispatch handmaids of 217 00:15:57,879 --> 00:16:03,120 promptitude are valuable aids in the achievement of prosperity in 218 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:08,519 ordinary business channels. Alacrity is a saving power, and promptness 219 00:16:08,519 --> 00:16:13,279 spells profit. It is doubtful whether a confirmed procrastinator ever 220 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:17,360 succeeded in business. I have not yet met one such, 221 00:16:17,879 --> 00:16:21,480 though I have known many who have failed. Vigilance is 222 00:16:21,519 --> 00:16:24,320 the guard of all the faculties and powers of the mind. 223 00:16:25,159 --> 00:16:28,360 It is the detective that prevents the entrance of any 224 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:32,559 violent and destructive element. It is the close companion and 225 00:16:32,639 --> 00:16:37,799 protector of all success, liberty, and wisdom. Without this watchful 226 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,240 attitude of mind, a man is a fool, and there 227 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:45,080 is no prosperity for a fool. The fool allows his 228 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:49,559 mind to be ransacked and robbed of its gravity, serenity, 229 00:16:50,039 --> 00:16:54,440 and judgment by mean thoughts and violent passions as they 230 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:58,159 come along to molest him. He is ever on his guard, 231 00:16:58,639 --> 00:17:00,600 but leaves open the doors of him his mind to 232 00:17:00,639 --> 00:17:05,559 every nefarious intruder. He is so weak and unsteady as 233 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:08,519 to be swept off his balance by every gust of 234 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:12,759 impulse that overtakes him. He is an example to others 235 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,400 of what they should not be. He is always a failure, 236 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,559 for the fool is an offense to all men, and 237 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:22,799 there is no society that can receive him with respect. 238 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:27,559 As wisdom is the acme of strength, so folly is 239 00:17:27,599 --> 00:17:31,759 the other extreme of weakness. The lack of vigilance is 240 00:17:31,799 --> 00:17:35,559 shown in thoughtlessness and in general looseness in the common 241 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:40,240 details of life. Thoughtlessness is built another name for folly. 242 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:43,160 It lies at the root of a great deal of 243 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:47,119 failure and misery. No one who aims that any kind 244 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:51,559 of usefulness and prosperity, for usefulness in the body politic 245 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:56,519 and prosperity to one's self cannot be served, can afford 246 00:17:56,559 --> 00:17:59,680 to be asleep with regard to his actions and the 247 00:17:59,759 --> 00:18:04,119 affe effect of those actions on others and reactively on himself. 248 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,759 He must, at the outset of his career, wake up 249 00:18:08,799 --> 00:18:12,920 to a sense of his personal responsibility. He must know 250 00:18:13,039 --> 00:18:16,759 that wherever he is in the home, the counting house, 251 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,960 the pulpit, the store, in the school room, or behind 252 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:25,119 the counter, in company or alone, at work or at play, 253 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:29,920 his conduct will materially affect his career, for good or bad. 254 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:34,480 For there is a subtle influence in behavior which leaves 255 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:38,680 its impression on every man, woman, and child that it touches, 256 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:43,319 and that impress is the determining factor in the attitude 257 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:47,680 of persons toward one another. It is for that reason 258 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:51,799 that the cultivation of good manners plays such an important 259 00:18:51,839 --> 00:18:56,359 part in all coherent society. If you carry about with 260 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:01,000 you a disturbing or disagreeable mental defect, it needs not 261 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:04,319 to be named and known to work its poison upon 262 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:09,319 your affairs. Its corrosive influence will eat into all of 263 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:14,519 your efforts and disfigure your happiness and prosperity, as powerful 264 00:19:14,599 --> 00:19:19,599 acid eats into and disfigures the finest steel. On the 265 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,680 other hand, if you carry about in assuring and harmonious 266 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:28,000 mental excellence, those about you will understand it and be 267 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,519 influenced by it. They will be drawn towards you in 268 00:19:31,599 --> 00:19:36,119 good will, often without knowing why, and that good quality 269 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,079 will be the most powerful sport in all your affairs, 270 00:19:39,599 --> 00:19:43,400 bringing you friends and opportunities, and greatly aiding in the 271 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:47,559 success of all your enterprises. It will even right your 272 00:19:47,599 --> 00:19:53,119 minor incapacities, covering a multitude of faults. Thus we receive 273 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,640 at the hands of the world according to the measure 274 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:01,240 of our giving, for bad bad, for good, good, for 275 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:08,640 defective conduct, indifferent influence, and imperfect success. For superior conduct, 276 00:20:09,319 --> 00:20:14,880 lasting power, and consummate achievement. We act in the world responds. 277 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,359 When the foolish man fails, he blames others and sees 278 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,440 no error in himself. But the wise man watches and 279 00:20:23,519 --> 00:20:28,279 corrects himself, and so is assured of success. The man 280 00:20:28,319 --> 00:20:32,319 whose mind is vigilant and alert has thereby a valuable 281 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:35,880 equipment in the achievement of his aims. And if he 282 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,920 be fully alive and wide awake on all occasions, to 283 00:20:40,079 --> 00:20:45,839 all opportunities and against all marring defects of character, what event, 284 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:51,319 what circumstance, what enemy shall overtake him and find him unprepared? 285 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,880 What shall prevent him from achieving the legitimate end at 286 00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:02,640 which he aims. Industry brings cheerfulness and place. Vigorously industrious 287 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,559 people are the happiest members of the community. They are 288 00:21:06,599 --> 00:21:09,880 not always the richest, if by riches is meant a 289 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,640 superfluity of money, but they are always the most light 290 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:17,039 hearted and joyful, and the most satisfied with what they 291 00:21:17,079 --> 00:21:21,319 do have, and therefore are richer, if by richer we 292 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:25,839 mean more abundantly blessed. Active people have no time for 293 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,839 moping and brooding, or for dwelling selfishly upon their ailments 294 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:34,640 and troubles. Things most used are kept the brightest, and 295 00:21:34,759 --> 00:21:39,359 people most employed best retain their brightness and buoyancy of spirit. 296 00:21:40,319 --> 00:21:44,680 Things unused tarnish quickest, and the time killer is attacked 297 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:49,160 with anui and morbid fancies. To talk of having to 298 00:21:49,279 --> 00:21:54,519 kill time is almost like a confession of imbecility, for who, 299 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,720 in the short life at his disposal, and in a 300 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:01,880 world so flooded with resources of notne with sound heads 301 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:05,160 and good hearts, can fill up every moment of every 302 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:09,039 day usefully and happily. And if they refer to time 303 00:22:09,079 --> 00:22:12,240 at all, it is to the effect that it is 304 00:22:12,279 --> 00:22:14,559 all too short to enable them to do what they 305 00:22:14,599 --> 00:22:20,200 would like to do. Industry too promoted health and well being. 306 00:22:21,039 --> 00:22:24,240 The active man goes to bed tired every night. His 307 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,559 rest is sound and sweet, and he wakes up early 308 00:22:27,599 --> 00:22:32,119 in the morning, fresh and strong for another day's delightful toil. 309 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:37,119 His appetite and digestion are good. He has an excellent 310 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:41,920 sauce and recreation, and a good tonic in toil. What 311 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,519 companionship can such a man have with moping and melancholy. 312 00:22:46,599 --> 00:22:50,000 Such morbid spirits hang round those who do little and 313 00:22:50,079 --> 00:22:54,759 dine excessively. People who make themselves useful to the community 314 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,599 receive back from the community their full share of health, happiness, 315 00:23:00,039 --> 00:23:04,359 and prosperity. They brighten the daily task and keep the 316 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:08,000 world moving. They are the gold of the nation and 317 00:23:08,039 --> 00:23:12,000 the salt of the earth. Earnestness, said a great teacher, 318 00:23:12,559 --> 00:23:16,440 is the path of immortality. They who are in earnest 319 00:23:16,519 --> 00:23:20,279 do not die. They who are not in earnest are 320 00:23:20,319 --> 00:23:24,680 as if dead already. Earnestness is the dedication of the 321 00:23:24,839 --> 00:23:28,480 entire mind to its task. We live only in what 322 00:23:28,519 --> 00:23:33,319 we do. Earnest people are dissatisfied with anything short of 323 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:37,279 the highest excellence in whatever they do, and they always 324 00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:41,400 reach that excellence. There are so many that are careless 325 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:46,319 and half hearted, so satisfied with a poor performance, that 326 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,279 the earnest one shine apart, as it were, in their excellence. 327 00:23:51,279 --> 00:23:54,079 There are always plenty of vacancies in the ranks of 328 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:59,000 usefulness and service. For earnest people there never was, and 329 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,880 never will be a deeply earnest man or woman who 330 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:10,000 did not feel successfully some suitable sphere. Such people are scrupulous, conscientious, 331 00:24:10,279 --> 00:24:14,240 and painstaking, and cannot rest in ease until the very 332 00:24:14,279 --> 00:24:17,240 best is done. And the whole world is always on 333 00:24:17,279 --> 00:24:21,079 the lookout to reward the best. It stands, ready to 334 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:28,720 pay the full price, whether in fame, money, friends, influence, happiness, scope, 335 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:33,279 or life, for that which is of surpassing excellence, whether 336 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:38,599 it be in things material, intellectual, or spiritual. Whatever you are, 337 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:43,480 whether shop keeper or saintly teacher, you can safely give 338 00:24:43,519 --> 00:24:46,559 the very best to the world without any doubt or misgiving. 339 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:51,160 If the indelible impress of your earnestness be on your 340 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,279 goods in the one case, or on your words in 341 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:59,039 the other, your business will flourish, or your precepts will live. 342 00:25:00,039 --> 00:25:03,559 Earnest people make rapid progress, both in their work and 343 00:25:03,599 --> 00:25:07,599 their character. It is thus that they live and do 344 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:12,200 not die. For stagnation only is death, and where there 345 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:17,640 is incessant progress and ever ascending excellence, stagnation and health 346 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,319 are swallowed up in activity in life. Thus is the 347 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:26,119 making and masonry of the first pillar, explained he who 348 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,680 builds it well and sets it firm and straight. Will 349 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,559 have a powerful and enduring support in the business of 350 00:25:33,599 --> 00:25:34,880 his life.