ver get ahead, but there seems to be something lacking in
their make-up, some screw loose somewhere. These brilliant graduates,
but indifferently successful men, are often enigmas to themselves.
They don't understand why they don't get on.

There is no doubt that ill-health is often the cause of failure, but
this is often due to a wrong mental attitude, wrong thinking. The
pessimistic, discouraged mental attitude is very injurious to good
health. Worry, fear, anxiety, jealousy, extreme selfishness, poison
the system, so that it does not perform its functions perfectly, and
will cause much ill-health.

A complete reversal of the mental attitude would bring robust health to
multitudes of those who suffer from "poor health." If people would
only think right, and live right, ill-health would be very rare. A
wrong mental attitude is the cause of a large part of physical
weakness, disease, and suffering.

It has been said that the two chief factors of success are industry and
health. But the history of human triumphs over difficulties shows that
the sick, the crippled, the deformed, have often outrun the strong and
hale to the goal of success, in spite of tremendous physical handicaps.
Many such instances are cited in other chapters of this volume.

Where men have built an abiding success, industry and perseverance have
proven the foundation stone? of their great achievements. Every man
may lay this foundation and build on it for himself. Whatever a man's
natural advantages may be, great or small, industry and perseverance
are his, if he chooses. By the exercise of these qualities he may
rise, as others have done, to success, if like Palissy he

"Labors and endures and waits
And what he can not find creates."

WHEN IS SUCCESS A FAILURE?

When you are doing the lower while the higher is possible.

When you are not a cleaner, finer, larger man on account of your
life-work.

When you live only to eat, drink, have a good time, and accumulate
money.

When you do not carry a higher wealth in your character than in your
pocketbook.

When your highest brain cells have been crowded out of business by
greed.

When it has made conscience an accuser, and shut the sunlight out of
your life.

When all sympathy has been crushed out by selfish devotion to your
vocation.

When the attainment of your ambition has blighted the aspirations and
crushed the hopes of others.

When you plead that you never had t