Enthusiasm

how him a picture of himself before telling him the whole truth. The next day I called him on the 'phone. I purposely blundered my words, held him up, called again. He roared over the 'phone, snapped, snarled, swore at the 'phone girl, gave a loud dictatorial order to some one while he was waiting to get my word. If I had opened the door of a bear-pit I would have had as pleasant a greeting. I called him for two days repeating the experiment; when he came I told him the story of the destructive use of power. Forty years of cruel, hard, resistful compelling service; lack of appreciation, lack of patience, lack of tolerance all had done their perfect failure work for him and failure was beginning to express its own law; his wife and children had left him, because, in spite of his name, place and power, he had sat at the head of his table cold; hard as flint; using his power to direct and control, but not to attract. His family had respected him, perhaps, had feared him, certainly, but loved him, never they could not, for he was everything but love. Employers, and all who deal with the many, owe a great deal to the truth of harmonious association; the one who is right with the lives that serve him will prosper; there are places when a big creative life cannot stand for suggestions from one who is not struggling, as he is, to pull off big things, and then he does not need to allow it. Take for instance, an inventor sees his vision, and no one can expect to see it just as he does, and he has a right to be, to a marked degree, intolerant of others and their opinion, but to be so that no one can approach him and to be almost impossible to live with, so that all his assistants fear and despise him, this is not genius, it is pure uncontrolled moods and tenses, which, left to themselves, will destroy the very thing he desires. When one is really great in genius and understanding, he knows that the biggest life is the one which includes the most, and who most perfectly expresses the things he includes, and "he who conquers himself is greater than he who taketh a city." 22 Those who have power to do, to say, to be, have also a great responsibility and as they act toward the very least of earth's children, they set the laws for themselves, in the long run. It has been written, "Ye shall not set your children's' teeth on edge," and true leadership can only come to one who feels in all, and through all, the great law of justice and love. "Do unto others as ye