Practical suggestionsIIn school government . to be aperfect sensibility of the measure of danger,and a mental willingness to incur it, ratherthan that insensibility to danger of whichI have heard far more than I have most courageous men are generallyunconscious of possessing the quality; there-fore, when one professes it too openly, bywords or bearing, there is reason to mistrustit. I would further illustrate my meaningby describing a man of true courage to beone who possesses all his features and sensesperfectly when serious danger is actuallypresent. 01^ SUCCESS 65 Goethe has summed
Practical suggestionsIIn school government . to be aperfect sensibility of the measure of danger,and a mental willingness to incur it, ratherthan that insensibility to danger of whichI have heard far more than I have most courageous men are generallyunconscious of possessing the quality; there-fore, when one professes it too openly, bywords or bearing, there is reason to mistrustit. I would further illustrate my meaningby describing a man of true courage to beone who possesses all his features and sensesperfectly when serious danger is actuallypresent. 01^ SUCCESS 65 Goethe has summed up a great deal ofwisdom in the following lines which aretranslated by Mrs. Huxley: * Wouldst shape a noble life ? Then castNo backward glances toward the past;And though somewhat be lost and gone,Yet do thou act as one each day needs, that shalt thou ask;Each day will set its proper others work just share of praise;Not of thine own the merits raise,Beware no fellow man thou hate:And so in Gods hands leave thy .<^
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