the
additional service of hardening him even more to any future conditions
of a like nature. But if the draft was cause, it would bring the same
results to both. The fact that it does not, shows that it is not a
cause, but a condition, and it brings to each, effects which correspond
to the conditions it finds within each.

Poor draft! How many thousands, nay millions of times it is made the
scapegoat by those who are too ignorant or too unfair to look their own
weaknesses square in the face, and who instead of becoming imperial
masters, remain cringing slaves. Think of it, what it means! A man
created in the image of the eternal God, sharer of His life and power,
born to have dominion, fearing, shaking, cringing before a little draft
of pure life-giving air. But scapegoats are convenient things, even if
the only thing they do for us is to aid us in our constant efforts at
self-delusion.

The best way to disarm a draft of the bad effects it has been
accustomed to bring one, is first to bring about a pure and healthy set
of conditions within, then, to change one's mental attitude toward it.
Recognize the fact that of itself it has no power, it has only the
power you invest it with. Thus you will put yourself into harmony with
it, and will no longer sit in fear of it. Then sit in a draft a few
times and get hardened to it, as every one, by going at it judiciously,
can readily do. "But suppose one is in delicate health, or especially
subject to drafts?" Then be simply a little judicious at first; don't
seek the strongest that can be found, especially if you do not as yet
in your own mind feel equal to it, for if you do not, it signifies that
you still fear it. That supreme regulator of all life, _good common
sense_, must be used here, the same as elsewhere.

If we are born to have dominion, and that we are is demonstrated by the
fact that some have attained to it,--and what one _has_ done, soon or
late all _can_ do,--then it is not necessary that we live under the
domination of any physical agent. In the degree that we recognize our
own interior powers, then are we rulers and able to dictate; in the
degree that we fail to recognize them, we are slaves, and are dictated
to. We build whatever we find within us; we attract whatever comes to
us, and all in accordance with spiritual law, for all natural law is
spiritual law.

The whole of human life is cause and effect; there is no such thing in
it as chance,