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be trained to initiate, inhibit or regulate be- 

 havior in a manner quite impossible to one 

 who has not had this training. It is one of 

 the most serious indictments against modern 

 systems of education that they devote so much 

 attention to training memory and intellect and 

 so little attention to the training of will, upon 

 the proper development of which so much 

 depends. 



5. Our Unused Talents. — Will is indeed 

 the supreme human faculty, the whole mind 

 in action, the internal stimulus which may call 

 forth all the capacities and powers. And yet 

 the will does not directly create nor even dis- 

 cover these powers; they are produced by the 

 factors of development, by heredity, environ- 

 ment and training; and they are usually dis- 

 covered by accident or under the stress of 

 necessity. How often have we surprised our- 

 selves by doing some unusual or prodigious 

 task! What we have once done we feel that 

 we can do again. We realize more or less 

 clearly, depending upon our experience, that 

 what we habitually do is far less than we could 

 do. It is this reserve, upon which we can 



