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sky" and know the potency of noble aspirations, 

 should retain the sex force within his being. He 

 who would be able to reason clearly and compre- 

 hend readily ; who would vibrate with another's 

 sympathy and feel another's woe; who would 

 know what it is to be a free man and have that 

 moral courage that "will not bear a feather's 

 weight of slavery's chain for small or great;" who 

 would stand in the presence of God and man an 

 uncrowned king resplendent with the glories of 

 human achievement, conscious of the divinity 

 there is in him "let him deny himself" and fol- 

 low the Christ in a life of chastity. 



The second expression of the sex element that 

 we shall consider is its manifestation in the form 

 of personal magnetism, passion and love. Mag- Defined! 8111 

 netism may be defined briefly as a vibratory ex- 

 pression of force that radiates from a person in 

 consequence of the chemical changes in the body 

 and the combustion or explosion of cells in the 

 brain and nerve ganglia. 



The personal magnetism of a person is both 

 voluntary and involuntary. The former is purely 

 the product of brain action; it corresponds in 

 strength and character to the strength and 

 of the elements of mind from which it springs and Magnetism. 

 is as subject to the control of the will, as is any 

 other manifestation of the mind. The latter corre- 

 sponds to the chemical organization and the in- 

 voluntary life of the person ; it is in no sense under 

 the control of the will, and changes only as the 

 vitality increases or diminishes. 



Silent forces rule the world. The power of a 

 man's life for good or evil is determined, not so 



