Such are the principal qualities necessary for advancement in life, though any one of them, without much or any of the other, will, if not counteracted by negative properties, be sure to command a certain degree of success. He who is about to start in the race would do well to ponder upon the difficulties he has to encounter, and make up a manful resolution to meet them with a full exertion of all his powers. To revert to the general question—what is it that enables one man to get in advance of his fellows? The answer is obvious: it can only be his _doing_ more than the generality of them, or his _enduring more privation_ than they are generally inclined to do [that is, self-denial], in order that he may acquire _increased power of doing_. The fault of most unsuccessful persons is their want of an adequate idea of what is to be _done_, and what is to be _endured_. They enter business as into a game or a sport, and they are surprised, after a time, to find that there is a principle in the affair they never before took into account—namely, the tremendous competition of other men. Without being able to do and suffer as much as the _best_ men of business, the _first_ place is not to be gained; without being able to do and suffer as much as the second order of men of business, the _second_ place is not to be gained; and so on. New candidates should therefore endeavour to make an estimate of the duties necessary for attaining a certain point, and not permit themselves to be thrown out in the race for want of a proper performance of those duties. They should either be pretty certain of possessing the requisite powers of exertion and endurance, or aim at a lower point, to which their powers may seem certainly adequate. FOOTNOTES: [6] This remark is borrowed from the conversation of a medical friend. CONTROLLERS-GENERAL.