But I must draw to a close, or I should merit the reproach of lapsing into a sentimental peroration, and be told that I am myself indulging in that rhetoric which Lambkin so severely condemned. IV. Lambkin’s Essay on “Success” ON “SUCCESS:” ITS CAUSES AND RESULTS [Sidenote: Difficulty of Subject] In approaching a problem of this nature, with all its anomalies and analogues, we are at once struck by the difficulty of conditioning any accurate estimate of the factors of the solution of the difficulty which is latent in the very terms of the above question. We shall do well perhaps, however, to clearly differentiate from its fellows the proposition we have to deal with, and similarly as an inception of our analysis to permanently fix the definitions and terms we shall be talking of, with, and by. [Sidenote: Definition of Success] Success may be defined as the _Successful Consummation of an Attempt_ or more shortly as the _Realisation of an imagined Good_, and as it implies Desire or the Wish for a thing, and at the same time action or the attempt to get at a thing,[17] we might look at Success from yet another point of view and say that _Success is the realisation of Desire through action_. Indeed this last definition seems on the whole to be the best; but it is evident that in this, as in all other matters, it is impossible to arrive at perfection, and our safest definition will be that which is found to be on the whole most approximately the average mean[18] of many hundreds that might be virtually constructed to more or less accurately express the idea we have undertaken to do. So far then it is evident that while we may have a fairly definite subjective visual concept of what Success is, we shall never be able to convey to others in so many words exactly what our idea may be. “What am I? , . . . . An infant crying for the light That has no language but a cry” [Sidenote: Method of dealing with Problem]