The Caucasian mountaineers have this proverb: “Heroism is
endurance for one moment more.” The fact is recognized that the
human spirit, with its dominating force, the will, may be and
ought to be superior to all bodily sensations and accidents of
environment. In a recent psychological story called “My Friend
Will,” Charles F. Lummis pays a striking tribute to the power
of the human mind over accident and chance, when he makes his
“friend Will” say: “I am bigger than anything that can happen
to me; all those things--sorrow, misfortune and suffering--are
outside my door. I’m in the house and I’ve got the key!” (Text.)
(2039)
=Misrepresentation Rebuked=--See HONESTY IN BUSINESS.