300 THE ABNORMAL MAN. 



cold and indifferent, the ambitions narrow and 

 selfish and the moral sentiments passive or weak. 

 Children born of parents whose whole lives have 

 been devoted to accumulating wealth who have 

 sacrificed all their finer feelings, comfort, culture 

 and religious development in order to make a 

 fortune cannot be otherwise than selfish and 

 commonplace. 



The significance of the foregoing proposition 

 will be appreciated only by those who have made 

 a stud y of mind - Tne mental power of every 

 individual is a limited quantity, some having 

 much more than others. Doubtless the quantity 

 may be increased by use and diminished by dis- 

 use ; but this does not alter the fact that mind is a 

 limited quantity. What the world calls a "genius" 

 What Constitutes is, in most instances, one in whom the mind power 

 a Genius* j s j ar g e iy expressed in some special talent : if it 



happens to be in the direction of reverence and 

 spirituality, he becomes a religious enthusiast ; if 

 through the reasoning or poetic sentiments, he is a 

 philosopher or a poet ; if in the scientific or inven- 

 tive faculties, he is an inventor; if in the acquisi- 

 tive instincts, he becomes a great financier ; if his 

 mind power is mainly expressed through the 

 animal propensities, he becomes a great criminal. 

 The difference, therefore, between the born crim- 

 inal and the born inventor is that their super- 

 normal powers lie in different directions. 



Now, the concentration of mental force in the 



The Future direction of money making is rapidly developing 



American. t j ie f[ nanc i a i instinct in the American people. This 



means that the genius of the coming citizen, the 



strongest characteristic of the future American, 



