Introduction

I. The Ruling Element, "Jason and his men."

II. The Golden Quality, "They passed through."

III. The Messenger of Fate, "They seized the favourable moment."

IV. The Active Hand, "They plied their oars with vigor."

V. Ethics of Activity




Foreword



Among the smaller forces which operate upon the mind and tend toward
strengthening and exalting the best ideals, are little books like this.
They are especially valuable when so much of the author's own experience
forms a thread upon which are suspended jewels of thought and illustration
serviceable to those who would see and know the best things.

I have found these characteristics in this small volume, and gladly
recommend it to all those who would become more familiar with what our
author calls "the key to that cabinet of character in which nature
conceals not only the motive power of every-day life, but those latent