OR MAKING THINGS HAPPEN BY WILLIAM M. THAYER "AROUND "WHITE AUTHOR OF "MEN WHO WIN, OR MAKING THINGS HAPPEN;" THOMAS NELSON AND SONS NEW YORK: 88 EAST 17TH STREET LONDON AND EDINBURGH 1896 C-13 COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY THOMAS NELSON AND SONS. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith Norwood, Mass. U.S.A. PREFACE. THERE is no sex among souls; hence there is none in success. One soul with the same talents, force, and opportunities as another soul will make as many and great things happen, whether found in man or woman. God gives "unto one five talents, to another two, and to another one," and He expects that each soul will accomplish "according to his several ability" without regard to sex. Had this fact been made prominent in educating mankind, there never would have been opposition to female education, nor would woman's achievements ever have been limited to domestic life. The Lord does not see that the soul coming to Him and saying, "Thou deliveredst unto me five talents; behold I have gained beside them other five talents," is that of a man or a woman. A woman is just as "wicked and slothful a servant as a man, if she bury her one talent "in the earth." Sex has nothing to do with the arrangement; it is soul-culture that God requires, which includes the development of the physical and intellectual powers. 99 The foregoing explains the remarkable progress of mankind in the last half century. Until within fifty years, men planned, legislated, and governed as if there were sex among souls. Out of this mistake |