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weapons of skepticism and doubt. "Steadfastly by truth, by austerity, by perfect wisdom, by Brahmacha-rva-practice (Perfect Chastity) is this atma attained. In the midst of the body, clad in light, He whom the sinless and the subdued behold is pure."-(Mundako-panishad). Feel convinced, student, that the emotion which impels to lofty aspiration and noble achievement is powerless in itself, unless the clear light of expanded intellect irradiates the soul and shines full along your path. "The intellect," said Sextus the Pythagorean, "is a chorus of Divinities. From the plane of pure intellection all life, both subjective and objective, both inner and outer, appears embosomed in beauty, but, viewed from the platform of action, life is a struggle, where the stakes are life and death, and in which "The joys of conquest are the joys of man." In the supreme struggle for Self Perfection,-for you must aim at nothing short of that, -the joys of the final triumph constitute the greatest joy of man. Nowadays it is the way with some to run down the intellect and to give emotions the first place. Again, there are others who ask you to kill out the heart-the seat of emotion-and to give the head-the seat of reason-the first place. Both schools are dogmatic and their reasoning is shallow,'very shallow. The fact is;- neither can be suppressed and crushed out. Steady reflection will prove that each is great in its own place, that the heart and the head, the feelings and the intelli-