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Mediocre men must be elevated by the 

 awakening of their natural powers and by an 

 acquired ability to offset their natural weak- 

 nesses. The transformation of the mediocre 

 is through the emotions, which cut away and 

 regenerate without the destruction of death. 

 Each retreat and advance differentiates and 

 evokes new natural powers: the whole race is 

 elevated and stupidity disappears, not by elimi- 

 nation, but by regeneration, which is the power 

 to reform. Every being may be acted on by the 

 emotional forces which mould character. It is 

 the true aim of reform to free these forces in 

 action and to let the natural characters evoked 

 by them work out the salvation of the race. 

 They can be trusted to do their work after 

 conscious effort has surmounted the initial 

 difficulties. 



SUMMARY 



1. The characters of men improve, not by addition, but 

 by differentiation. To be strong in one direction is to be 

 weak in another, and the deficiency must be made up by 

 conscious education. 



2. The strong can care for itself, as it has a natural back- 

 ground and each new differentiation adds to its natural 



