or will not, bear.

 

--BYRON, _Hints from Horace_.

 

Look to this day, for it is life--the very life of life. In its brief course lie

all the verities and realities of your existence: the bliss of growth, the glory

of action, the splendor of beauty. For yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow

is only a vision; but today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of

happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this

day. Such is the salutation of the dawn.

 

--_From the Sanskrit_.

 

In the chapter preceding we have seen the influence of "Thought and Reserve

Power" on general preparedness for public speech. But preparation consists in

something more definite than the cultivation of thought-power, whether from

original or from borrowed sources--it involves a _specifically_ acquisitive

attitude of the whole life. If you would become a full soul you must constantly

take in and assimilate, for in that way only may you hope to give out that which

is worth the hearing; but do not confuse the acquisition of general information

with the mastery of specific knowledge. Information consists of a fact or a

group of facts; knowledge is _organized_ information--knowledge knows a fact in

relation to other facts.

 

Now the important thing here is that you should set all your faculties to take