WILL-POWER IN BUSINESS

sions. Few people draw a free breath. Few
people decide. They only wait to be told.
There is no liberty, except the little that
children take. We are an army. Life is not a
joy and an adventure, as it ought to be. Itisa
routine. Even our pleasures, most of them,
are taken in crowds. We cannot amuse ourselves.
 We buy our pleasures like soap. And
our entertainers find it more and more
difficult to amuse us.

In Quebec, where the priests rule, a peasant
will not answer any important question. He
will refer you to the priest, who alone has any
authority. This, we say, is medievalism. It
is priestcraft. It is the Dark Ages. So it is.
But how far have we evolved beyond it ?

Are we not having our opinions made for us by
people who are very little wiser than priests ?
Are there 10 per cent. of the people in Europe
who shape their own opinions and have a mind
life of their own ? Not likely.

So I would say to every young, ambitious
man or woman—cut free. Shape your own
life in your own way. Break away from the
strings that are making a puppet of you.

Do as you want to do, if you want to make
more of yourself. Be what you want to be, as
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