Personality

of bosses to do some heavy labor. These gentle big-eyed, dreaming Indians "forever in a doze whether or not their eyelids close," some of them still wearing their native turban, not one of them speaking a word of our language, knowing nothing at all of our world or its ways, and over them a big, brawling, ignorant boss, brutal, domineering, filled with the egoism of his own new authority; the Hindus were like dumb driven cattle, and there was no human hand or mind between them and their heartless master. It was his hour, but it was Truth's hour, too, and with every brutal curse and blow the cosmic hand wrote for him and moved on, and I read over his head: "God is not mocked, and what a man sows, that also shall he reap." 21 Again, in a restaurant, in Boston, a big blustering arrogant head-waiter, walking the floor in pompous authority spoke to every waitress as if she was his spaniel, instead of a hard-working human being. I heard what he said to the waitress at my table and I said to her, "Why do you allow such a bully to rule over you, why don't you hang up your apron and leave?" She answered, "We have to take it because it is the same most everywhere, all waiters are at the mercy of a domineering head-waiter, and I have a mother to support and must keep my job, no matter how I am insulted." A little learning, and a little power is a dangerous thing, and power misused can bring the longest round of despair. There are men in every walk of life, strong, positive, creative, able to cope with almost any condition, who never give a decent word or thought to those who are inferior to them, they are building their own failure law to meet them further on. They live in a world of inferiors, they never accept an equal or dream of a superior, and they poise themselves in an exalted spot and deal out their ultimatum to the rest of the world. Once a man came to me for success treatments. He said that he had always been successful, born so, had always had his own way, made easy money and everybody bowed down to his will; he had been in a steady run of luck health, success and power until about a year ago, then things began to change, his success turned, investments failed, friends deceived him, and his help in factory and store were careless and impudent; his children had all gone abroad with their mother, he was alone, wondering why these things should come to him. I gave him the treatment but I knew that he was face to face with himself and I waited to s