hold of the framework it will be a simple matter to retain the details and clothe the intellectual skeleton with words when it is desired to give utterance to the speech.
Thought should be conserved. Much thought energy is wasted through not being properly directed. By this it is meant that its forces are scattered, not focused with all their power upon the object or idea. (As a tiny flame, focused upon a plate of steel by means of a blow-pipe, will cut through it as a knife cuts through a piece of cheese, so will thought, concentrated upon an object or a passage of literature, cut through what would make either obscure and lay all bare to the understanding. Mental control is what makes the masterful man or woman, and this mastery over the mind can be secured by practice. Do not permit your mind to wander, but
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