FOR THOSE WHO WILL FIGHT BRAVELY and not yield, there is triumphant victory over all the dark things of life. I state this at the beginning, that the reader may know there is no uncertainty
about it. In the course of this book I shall show what are the elements, in character and conduct, which go to build up the life of calm strength and superlative victory. To stand face to face
with truth; to arrive, after innumerable wanderings and pains, at wisdom and bliss; not to be finally defeated and cast out, but ultimately to triumph over every inward foe—such is man’s divine
destiny, such his glorious goal. And this, every saint, sage, and savior has declared.
