Music Trade Review
Issue: 1910 Vol. 50 N. 16 - Page 3
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THE
fflJJIC TIRADE
VOL. L. No. 16
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, April 16,1910
SING
$2 E OO°P P ERVEAR E N T S
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E are all unconsciously influenced by our environment.
We are to a certain degree imitators, and the greater part of our work is done on impulse.
If our neighbors or friends plunge into extravagances we do likewise and so we imper-
ceptibly drift into a dangerous position and it is because we are creatures of habit that we
ofttimes rush into extravagances which are ruinous in the extreme.
There are very few men who can rise above their surroundings and the few men and women who
have risen supreme in the world's history are distinctly those who have cultivated the power of personal
volition far beyond the average of the race.
It was the will power of Napoleon which enabled him to make a new map of Europe and set up
rulers wherever he chose.
Without that determination—without that energy he probably would have remained as incon-
spicuous as thousands of others who came from as obscure parentage as himself.
It was the great philosopher Schopenhauer who first enunciated the theory that the only con-
stant and persistent force in nature was will—the will to be—the will to live.
It is the ceaseless—indestructible—resistless activity of this infinite will which gives us our
existence.
-
In mechanics it is called the motive power—in the human organization it is denominated the will.
It is well that we think of the will as a force, for in that light we can better apprehend its nature
and methods.
Now, machinery devoid of motive power is inefficient and human machinery without will power
is useless—it swings back to a mediocre level.
It is will power that creates great enterprises.
It was the will power of Roosevelt which developed a weak physical frame into one of athletic
build and which has made him perhaps the most foremost figure in the world of to-day.
It is will power which can advance any man no matter what his vocation may be.
Tt is by building up—by developing the mental as well as the physical strength that a man may
advance to higher and better things.
. . . . . .
It is a power worth cultivating and without it the wheels of progress would cease revolving.
Now, every man whether conducting a great business enterprise or playing an humble part in a
subordinate capacity can make himself a more valuable figure in the modern business world by exer-
cising the one great power which every man possesses.
"'
• -
••-..•-•
It is a power which may be developed and it is only by concentrated energy that it can be de-
veloped in the same manner in which the athlete develops his muscles—by training—by exercise—by
concentration.
RE\1LW
THE
fflJJIC TIRADE
VOL. L. No. 16
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, April 16,1910
SING
$2 E OO°P P ERVEAR E N T S
=^£*£^S~^«<^«^^
j
W
E are all unconsciously influenced by our environment.
We are to a certain degree imitators, and the greater part of our work is done on impulse.
If our neighbors or friends plunge into extravagances we do likewise and so we imper-
ceptibly drift into a dangerous position and it is because we are creatures of habit that we
ofttimes rush into extravagances which are ruinous in the extreme.
There are very few men who can rise above their surroundings and the few men and women who
have risen supreme in the world's history are distinctly those who have cultivated the power of personal
volition far beyond the average of the race.
It was the will power of Napoleon which enabled him to make a new map of Europe and set up
rulers wherever he chose.
Without that determination—without that energy he probably would have remained as incon-
spicuous as thousands of others who came from as obscure parentage as himself.
It was the great philosopher Schopenhauer who first enunciated the theory that the only con-
stant and persistent force in nature was will—the will to be—the will to live.
It is the ceaseless—indestructible—resistless activity of this infinite will which gives us our
existence.
-
In mechanics it is called the motive power—in the human organization it is denominated the will.
It is well that we think of the will as a force, for in that light we can better apprehend its nature
and methods.
Now, machinery devoid of motive power is inefficient and human machinery without will power
is useless—it swings back to a mediocre level.
It is will power that creates great enterprises.
It was the will power of Roosevelt which developed a weak physical frame into one of athletic
build and which has made him perhaps the most foremost figure in the world of to-day.
It is will power which can advance any man no matter what his vocation may be.
Tt is by building up—by developing the mental as well as the physical strength that a man may
advance to higher and better things.
. . . . . .
It is a power worth cultivating and without it the wheels of progress would cease revolving.
Now, every man whether conducting a great business enterprise or playing an humble part in a
subordinate capacity can make himself a more valuable figure in the modern business world by exer-
cising the one great power which every man possesses.
"'
• -
••-..•-•
It is a power which may be developed and it is only by concentrated energy that it can be de-
veloped in the same manner in which the athlete develops his muscles—by training—by exercise—by
concentration.
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