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regeneration to restore harmony and simplicity. 

 There is an ever onward movement so long as 

 favorable conditions create growth which ends 

 in additions, and unfavorable conditions arouse 

 emotions which end in regeneration and har- 

 mony. 



Character building is not an elimination 

 but a complementary differentiation. Its pro- 

 cesses carry farther the same changes which 

 transform the embryo. It is surplus energy 

 creating new antagonisms which end only in 

 the destruction and regeneration of some 

 organ along new lines. We are not born 

 with characters ; they are made by regenera- 

 tion. The internal body grows and changes 

 through life, as the external body does in 

 the embryo and in youth. Character is the 

 internal body articulated as the external body 

 is articulated, by its early contact with the 

 environment It is an expression not of will, 

 but of surplus energy. We get character by 

 doing, not by willing. It results from the 

 transforming of thoughts into activity. 



In closing, a word of personal history may 

 not be out of place. The principles here enun- 



