DEVELOPING WILL-POWER

At twenty, a normal young man has energy
and ambition, but he has had little or no ex-
perience. He plunges in and makes mistakes.
His whole future depends on his attitude
towards these mistakes. If he has guts, they
won’t stop him. He will continue to have
energy and ambition plus experience.
He will keep on and create a career for him-
self and very likely a fortune. He does not
allow himself to feel beaten. But if he gives up
the struggle at forty and sits down to listen to
his arteries hardening, there is no hope for him.

Every Briton over forty should make this a
personal matter. He should ask himself —*‘ Am I
slowing down and allowing my opportunities
to escape and my abilities to remain un-
developed. Or am I still ambitious and full of
the joy of life 7 No man’s chances are gone
until the undertaker gets him.

‘‘ There are two Italy’s,” says Mussolini.
‘ The one is noble, proud, loyal and resolved
to be always in the front rank. And the other
is dull to any consciousness of nobility and
power, serving obscure issues, a slave to
apathetic tendencies, cold, egotistic, unable to
make a gallantry, dead to sacrifice.”

Yes. And is it not true that there are two
Britains 7? Have we not a Britain of noble,

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