How to Make Your Mark in Life (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Try and of their career and above all a thorough knowledge of himself, if possible, are necessary in determining the life-leap a man should make. How came such men as Roger Bacon, Sir Wal ter Raleigh, Sir Isaac Newton, William Shakes peare, George Chapman, Francis Bacon, and George Herbert? What made these physical and mental giants? It was their parentage. These men are samples of their ancestry; but they are also samples of the race to which they belong. Hence, I assert that it is of some im portance to a man that he ascertain the race, the ancestry, the characteristics of his people before he determines the course in life he should pursue if he would ensure a certain measure of success. This is most strikingly traceable in the offspring of men of musical ability. Mozart, Handel, Beethoven, and a goodly number of Italian professors of the di vine art, sprang from a musical stock, hence their wisdom and safety in pursuing a similar career. An example of this may be found to day in the Gittens' family in Barbados, British West Indies, every member of that family be ing gifted with that celestial art. Some will object to this rule as being too limited in its.

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