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You Are The
Master
"The cowards never started, and
the weak died along the way."
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In the days of myths in
ancient Greece, men talked at great length, and with superstitious
fear, of the Godesses of Fate — three sisters to whom the Gods had
given the power to determine the lives and fortunes of all human
beings on earth, of every age, and in every generation.
This ancient myth was so popular in medieval times that a Roman
artist, supposed to have been Michelangelo, painted these Goddesses
as they were supposed to be — three old women in a group,
manipulating the life and fortune of every human being on earth.
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Lachesis, the second
sister fate, winds off the thread of life. And Atropos, the oldest sister,
stands by with huge shears, impatiently waiting for the right moment to
clip the thread of life.
The teaching of this ancient myth is that every human being, of every age,
and in every generation, is but the plaything of the fates; that life is
longer or shorter as the fates may decide; and that no act of man can
change his own destiny. Here, then, is the difference between
ancient myth and modern science.
Today science tells us in unequivocal terms that man is by no means
helpless concerning his own future; that only the fool believes he cannot
help himself. And laden with facts to prove each point, science goes
on to show how man may lengthen his life or shorten it; how he may make
his life or mar it; how he may bless his life or curse it — by what he
knows, and by the way he puts his knowledge to use.
Science has made it clear, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that man is not the
slave of his environment and his circumstances, but that he is in truth
the master and maker of his own destiny. In the words of Disraeli: "Man is
not the creature of circumstances ; circumstances are the creatures of
man."
My word, how we do need that kind of philosophy of life today — a creed to
challenge a man to the very best that is in him!
It was this kind of belief that was the very essence of the thinking of
America's early settlers, the courageous and persevering pioneers who
pushed the American frontier westward from the Atlantic to the distant
Pacific.
These men and women endured incredible hardships, and often risked their
lives, to carve out new opportunities in a promising new world. It took
great faith, and courage, and fortitude, and perseverance. And to keep up
their courage in times of great danger and frustration, they reminded
themselves of an old saying that had grown out of the sweat and blood of
early frontier days: "The cowards never started, and the weak died along
the way." That was a challenge to stir men's hearts!
The new world of America was founded and built by free men and women who
believed that they were the masters and makers of their own fates. In that
faith they built a vast new world of freedom and opportunity, the dream of
all mankind.
Master Your Destiny Article
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