"However greatly mortals may require it,
All cannot go to Corinth who desire it."

But forethought, self-suggestion, and the bringing the mind to dwell
continuously on a subject are absolutely within the reach of all who
have any strength of mind whatever, without any aid. Those of feebler
ability yield, however, all the more readily (as in the case of
children) to the influence of others or of hypnotism by a master.
Therefore, either subjectively or with assistance, most human beings
can be morally benefited to a limitless degree, "morally" including
intellectually.

We often hear it said of a person that he or she would do well or
succeed if that individual had "application." Now, as Application,
or "sticking to it," or perseverance in earnest faith, is the main
condition for success in all that I have discussed, I trust that it
will be borne in mind that the process indicated provides from
the first lesson or experiment for this chief requisite. For the
_fore-thinking_ and hypnotizing our minds to be in a certain state or
condition all the next day, by what some writers, such as HARTMANN,
treat as magical process--but which is just so much magical as the use
of an electrical machine--is simply a beginning in Attention and
Perseverance.

"So, like a snowball rolled in falling snow,
It gathers size as it doth onward go."

When we make a wish or will, or determine that in future after awaking
we shall be in a given state of mind, we also include Perseverance for
the given time, and as success supposes repetition in all minds, it
follows that Perseverance will be induced gradually and easily.

And here I may remark that while all writers on ethics, duty or
morals, cry continually "Be persevering, be honest, be enterprising,
exert your will!" and so on, and waste thousands of books in
illustrating the advantages of all these fine things, there is not one
who tells us _how_ to practically execute or do them. To follow the
hint of a quaint Sunday School picture, they show us a swarm of Bees,
with hive and honey, but do not tell us how to catch _one_. And yet a
man may be anything he pleases if he will by easy and simple practice
as I have shown, make the conception habitual. I do not tell you as
these good folk do, how to go about it nobly, or heroically, or
piously; in fact, I prescribe a method as humble as making a fire, or
a pair of shoes, and yet in very truth and honor I have profited far
more by