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iar talents and ambitions of the aspirant; a good general education; a 

 complete professional training; habits of work and play in due propor- 

 tion; ability to keep abreast of the times, socially, professionally and 

 generally; capability of meeting and of making mutually helpful all 

 people with whom the accidents of life bring one in contact in social or 

 in professional life, and a good-tempered persistence in making a record 

 that shall, with its steadily lengthening and strengthening chain, be- 

 come a constantly more and more helpful factor of all success. 



Professional success attained, the greatest problem, that of making 

 that success in highest degree valuable and productive, is one which 

 appeals to the thoughtful man more importunately than ever could the 

 problem of gaining a triumphant success in any division of the great 

 world of humanity. It is not so much the acquirement of wealth, 

 whether of money or of wisdom or of fame, which must compel thought 

 and anxious sleeplessness, as it is the problem of investment and of 

 securing safe and satisfactory returns on the accumulated and invested 

 capital. If the capital consists of material wealth, the question how to 

 use it for the highest and best purposes becomes a serious one and the 

 example of the great philanthropist is studied to ascertain the outcome 

 of his endeavor to do most and best with his surplus, to learn how far 

 such attempts have hitherto proved successful and how far they have 

 proved unfruitful or harmful. If the capital is personal fame and 

 power and influence, the same question comes up in a modified form 

 and the successful man is fortunate, or unfortunate, after all, propor- 

 tionally as he is able to make his fame and power and influence felt for 

 good in the great world's movements. 



The ultimate measure of the man, of the woman, is the degree of 

 final approximation to the success of a Peabody in promoting education, 

 of a Carnegie in giving men opportunity to learn and to develop, of a 

 Booker Washington in promoting the advance of a race, of a Eoose- 

 velt in advancing the standard of honest and patriotic politics, of a 

 Rockefeller in discreetly seeking out the greatest needs of humanity and 

 providing for their effective supply, of a Vassar in promoting the spe- 

 cial care of women in their intellectual life, of any approximation 

 gained for self and others to a higher life in wisdom and learning, in 

 knowledge and culture. 



The prerequisites of success are the perfect training of the body, 

 brain and soul; the methods are scientific, in education, in training 

 and in practice. The resultant form is a specific type, a species. The 

 results of the work are as specific, in every profession; usually meas- 

 ured, crudely, by accumulated capital, in form of learning, of skill, of 

 property; but its use is ever the same, its abuse usually common to 

 all forms. Its use is the elevation and upbuilding of humanity, its 

 abuse self-gratification ; its glory is seen in the progress of mankind. 



