THERE is a Principle of Power in every person. By the intelligent use and direction of this principle, man
can develop his own mental faculties. Man has an inherent power by which he may grow in whatsoever direction he
pleases, and there does not appear to be any limit to the possibilities of his growth.
No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.
The possibility is in the Original Substance from which man is made. Genius is Omniscience flowing into
man.
Genius is more than talent. Talent may merely be one faculty developed out of proportion to other faculties,
but genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their
deeds.
They are in connection with a reserve of power that is without limit. We do not know where the boundary of
the mental powers of man is; we do not even know that there is a boundary.
The power of conscious growth is not given to the lower animals; it is mans alone and may be developed and
increased by him. The lower animals can, to a great extent, be trained and developed by man; but man can train
and develop himself. He alone has this power, and he has it to an apparently unlimited extent.
The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and
plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; man can grow, as he will. Trees and plants can only develop
certain possibilities and characteristics; man can develop any power, which is or has been shown by any person,
anywhere. Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood.
Nothing that man can think is impossible-in action. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of
realization.
