stated it is nothing more than the common-sense determination to know no such word as fail. Thus to give oneself to the desired idea need not be to deny anything. It is simply the valiant acceptance of an idea that leads to action, that breaks through the line in the given direction. For it is not necessary to deny anything if assured that we have given ourselves to the ideal, which we forthwith set out to make our own through work. The secret lies not in what is excluded, nor in the mere object of attention, but in the persistently applied attention through which we set our energies free. What reliance may also be put upon subconscious after-effects we shall consider in the next chapter. The central characteristic of the human mind, we are learning more conclusively, is found neither in the original promptings or motives nor in the fruitions of suggestion, but in the purpose or ideal. The mind at its best is essentially purposive, has an aim, and attains ends; and the various methods employed are secondary to the life that employs. That is, mind is not a mere succession of sensations, feelings, emotions, desires, images, ideas, and volitions. If this were so, it could never be a question of the selection and co-ordination of desires, or the elimination of emotions. Hence we must give up the effort to account for ourselves in merely causal terms, as if mere processes could explain all that we are. The moment I begin to