Law Of Attraction

s to command. How remorselessly she spurs him With terrific ardor stirs him When she poignantly prefers him! When Nature wants to name a man And fame a man And tame a man; When Nature wants to shame a man To do his heavenly best When she tries the highest test That she reckoning may bring When she wants a god or king! How she reins him and restrains him So his body scarce contains him While she fires him And inspires him! Keeps him yearning, ever burning for a tantalizing goal - Lures and lacerates his soul. Sets a challenge for his spirit, Draws it higher when he's near it Makes a jungle, that he clear it; Makes a desert that he fear it And subdue it if he can So doth Nature make a man. Then, to test his spirit's wrath 31 Hurls a mountain in his path Puts a bitter choice before him And relentlessly stands o'er him. Climb, or perish! so she says. Watch her purpose, watch her ways! Nature's plan is wondrous kind Could we understand her mind Fools are they who call her blind. When his feet are torn and bleeding Yet his spirit mounts unheeding, All his higher powers speeding, Blazing newer paths and fine; When the force that is divine Leaps to challenge every failure and his ardor still is sweet And love and hope are burning in the presence of defeat Lo, the crisis! Lo, the shout That must call the leader out. When the people need salvation Doth he come to lead the nation.... Then doth Nature show her plan When the world has found - a MAN! From 'Forward, March P' The John Lane Company. I am convinced that failure is Natures plan through which she hurdlejumps men of destiny and prepares them to do their work. Failure is Natures great crumble in which she burns the dross from the human heart and so purifies the metal of the man that it can stand the test of hard usage. 32 I have found evidence to support this theory in the study of the records of scores of great men, from Socrates and Christ on down the centuries to the well-known men of achievement of our modern times. The success of each man seemed to be in almost exact ratio to the extent of the obstacles and difficulties he had to surmount. No man ever arose from the knock-out blow of defeat without being stronger and wiser for the experience. Defeat talks to us in a language all its own; a language to which we must listen whether we like it or not. Of course one must have considerable courage to look upon defeat as a blessing in disguise; but the attainment of any position in life, that is worth having, requires a lot of sand, which brings to mind a poem that harmonizes with the philosophy of this lesson. I observed a locomotive in the railroad yards one day, It was waiting in the roundhouse where the locomotives stay; It was panting for the journey, it was coaled and fully manned, And it