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- namely, the penetrating, the warming, the Book iv 

 stimulating action of the hope of certain personal 

 advantages on the mind of the exceptional man, 

 which advantages he will not only covet as advan- 

 tageous, but will recognise as the natural result of 

 the exercise of his exceptional faculties, and as a 

 result attainable by the exercise of these faculties We must in- 



i iTTi i i 'i i quire what the 



only. What these personal advantages are, the required 

 desire of which, coupled with their attainability, is rewards are. 

 necessary to stimulate men who have more than 

 ordinary potentialities, to do greater things by 

 developing them than are done by ordinary men, 

 must be determined by reference to the actual facts 

 of life, the records of which are ample, and the 

 details of which, though numerous, can by careful 

 analysis be easily reduced to order. 



