To the favored sons of the earth whose lot has been cast in pleasant places, and who have thus come to take an optimistic view of life, the world presents a panorama of unlimited opportunities, wealth flows in abundance from its rich resources, and it remains only for industry and genius to garner the golden harvest. In every field of human activity they have seen men rise from obscurity to the topmost pinnacle of fame and fortune, and
thus they come to look upon the possibilities
of personal achievement as almost unlimited.
Fame waits upon genius and fortune at the
hand of industry. He who succeeds, succeeds
as the result of application and genius. Indolence alone forms the excuse of poverty. Admiration is for those who prosper, and, though there may be pity or charity for those who fail, their lot is rather supposed to be of their own making, or the consequence of natural conditions which are beyond the power of man to change. We are constantly reminded that human nature is the same the world over, and the inequalities which exist in human conditions must arise as a necessity of the natural inequalities of man.
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