that every day's work we
do, that every blow we strike helps to broaden, deepen, and enrich life!

Those who fail are, as a rule, those who are out of their places. _A
man out of his place is but half a man; his very nature is perverted_.
He is working against his nature, rowing against the current. When his
strength is exhausted he will float down the stream. A man can not
succeed when his whole nature is entering its perpetual protest against
his occupation. To succeed, his vocation must have the consent of all
his faculties; they must be in harmony with his purpose.

Has a young man a right to choose an occupation which will only call
into play his lower and inferior qualities, as cunning, deceit, letting
all his nobler qualities shrivel and die? Has he a right to select a
vocation that will develop only the beast within him instead of the
man? which will call out the bulldog qualities only, the qualities
which overreach and grasp, the qualities which get and never give,
which develop long-headedness only, while his higher self atrophies?

The best way to choose an occupation is to ask yourself the question,
"What would my government do with me if it were to consider
scientifically my qualifications and adaptations, and place me to the
best possible advantage for all the people?" The Norwegian precept is
a good one: "Give thyself wholly to thy fellow-men; they will give thee
back soon enough." We can do the most possible for ourselves when we
are in a position where we can do the most possible for others. _We
are doing the most for ourselves and for others when we are in a
position which calls into play in the highest possible way the greatest
number of our best faculties; in other words, we are succeeding best
for ourselves when we are succeeding best for others_.

The time will come when there will be institutions for determining the
natural bent of the boy and girl; where men of large experience and
close observation will study the natural inclination of the youth, help
him to find where his greatest strength lies and how to use it to the
best advantage. Even if we take for granted what is not true, that
every youth will sooner or later discover the line of his greatest
strength so that he may get his living by his strong points rather than
by his weak ones, the discovery is often made so late in life that
great success is practically impossible. Such institutions would help
boys and girls to start i