Article December 5, 1901 Issue

Getting Our Dominion

Success

Man was made to lead, to rule, to dominate. There is nothing cringing, sneaking, or apologizing in the normal being made by God. A weak, discouraged, disheartened, discordant being is no more the man God made than is the harshest jargon sweet music.

Man was made to hold up his head, to assert his God given birthright,—to be a man. Success is as much his normal element as water is the normal element of a fish. He was not made to live in an atmosphere of doubt, to be haunted and dogged through life by fear and uncertainty.

Let us be masters of circumstances and surroundings, not their slaves. Let us fight poor, weak, sick thoughts as enemies of happiness and success. The thought that one is a victim of circumstances, that his success and happiness depend on chance,—the habit of looking on oneself as a poor, miserable, fallen creature,—is demoralizing to mind and body, and absolutely destructive of all noble character building.—Success, November, 1901.

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