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An Iron Will, by Orison Swett Marden
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Title: An Iron Will
Author: Orison Swett Marden
Release Date: August 11, 2004 [EBook #13160]
Language: English
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[Illustration: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, American Philosopher, Statesman, Diplomatist, and Author. b. Boston, 1706; d. Philadelphia, 1790.]
AN IRON WILL
By ORISON SWETT MARDEN
AUTHOR OF "PUSHING TO THE FRONT," ETC.
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF ABNER BAYLEY
ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS
New York: THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS
1901 BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY.
CHAPTER I.
TRAINING THE WILL.
"The education of the will is the object of our existence," says Emerson.
Nor is this putting it too strongly, if we take into account the human will in its relations to the divine. This accords with the saying of J. Stuart Mill, that "a character is a completely fashioned will."
In respect to mere mundane relations, the development and discipline of one's will-power is of supreme moment in relation to success in life. No man can ever estimate the power of