.MTI3NA.MTAxNzc4

any thing. I can pay as alone attention to anything, or learn anything thing as quick as most any one can, but I lack the energy of will to confine myself down to any thing for hour after hour, or day after day. There is a constitutional difference between Joseph & me. Eliah is still different. I think he has a much more natural talent than either Joseph or I, but I do not think that all the training in the world could ever make him half so great a man as Joseph might have been, with suitable advantages of education. My next door classmate will sit down and bore right into a lesson steady for three, four, or five hours right off without flinching or weariness of mind. If I do the same for one hour, I do well like most every else. But very likely I should get the lesson in me hour that he would in three. Still this iron energy of will, this indefatigable property of mind, with physical constitution to support it, is invaluable. It is the stuff to make great men of. The rational capacity of mind has very little to do with ultimate success. The mind, my mind, is sufficiently capable of cultivation and improvement, indefinitely capable; for success it requires only the power of application and perseverance of mind, supported by a sufficient physical constitution. I don't think I am naturally deficient in any of these things, and I believe that with an equal chance and without disadvantages I might have been able to take a rank in any class, but entering here as I did , with my whole