upon which gamblers often stake their money. If they lose one, they
stake two; if they lose, they stake four; if they lose, they stake
eight; if they still lose, they stake sixteen; now if they win, they
have, of course, won one more than they have lost altogether. The banker
guards against this system by limiting their progression to a certain
figure and thus breaking it down. But in the game of life we have no
limit put upon our enterprises. We may redouble our efforts after every
failure, and we find, upon the first success, that we have, in one
stroke of prosperity, more than made ourselves whole for failures which
may have extended behind us indefinitely. You cannot fail in life if you
will stake an effort on each succeeding attempt twice as great as the
effort which lost you your last desire.