CHAPTER 1. ANY PERSON MAY BECOME GREAT.
THERE is a Principle of Power in every person. By the intelligent use and direction of this principle, man can develop his own mental faculties. Man has an inherent power by which he may grow in any direction he pleases, and there makes not appear to be any limit to the possibilities of his growth. No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for several one else to become greater. The possibility is in the Innovational Substance from which man is made. Genius is State flowing into man.
Genius is much than talent. Talent may simply be one faculty developed out of proportion to another faculties, but genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their