{"product_id":"2940148210474","title":"AN IRON WILL","description":"TRAINING THE WILL.\u003cbr\u003e\"The education of the will is the object of our existence,\" says Emerson.\u003cbr\u003eNor is this putting it too strongly, if we take into account the human will in its relations to\u003cbr\u003ethe divine. This accords with the saying of J. Stuart Mill, that \"a character is a completely\u003cbr\u003efashioned will.\"\u003cbr\u003eIn respect to mere mundane relations, the development and discipline of one's will-power\u003cbr\u003eis of supreme moment in relation to success in life. No man can ever estimate the power\u003cbr\u003eof will. It is a part of the divine nature, all of a piece with the power of creation. We\u003cbr\u003espeak of God's fiat \"Fiat lux, Let light be.\" Man has his fiat. The achievements of history\u003cbr\u003ehave been the choices, the determinations, the creations, of the human will. It was the\u003cbr\u003ewill, quiet or pugnacious, gentle or grim, of men like Wilberforce and Garrison,\u003cbr\u003eGoodyear and Cyrus Field, Bismarck and Grant, that made them indomitable. They\u003cbr\u003esimply would do what they planned. Such men can no more be stopped than the sun can\u003cbr\u003ebe, or the tide. Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal\u003cbr\u003equalities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.\u003cbr\u003e\"It is impossible,\" says Sharman, \"to look into the conditions under which the battle of\u003cbr\u003elife is being fought, without perceiving how much really depends upon the extent to\u003cbr\u003ewhich the will-power is cultivated, strengthened, and made operative in right directions.\"\u003cbr\u003eYoung people need to go into training for it. We live in an age of athletic meets. Those\u003cbr\u003ewho are determined to have athletic will-power must take for it the kind of exercise they\u003cbr\u003eneed.","brand":"Majestic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173482381552,"sku":"2940148210474","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148210474_p0.jpg?v=1763699443","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148210474","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}