THE INDIVIDUAL WILL 25 



tions which have helped to shape it. I am disposed to give to 

 this personal power a value quite as great as to that shadowy 

 domination that comes to me from the past : believing, indeed, 

 that what I am in relation to myself and my fellows is far more 

 my own than it is my ancestors'. What they sent me limited 

 the bounds of my little part of the great field ; what I have done 

 in that field is my own. 



