CHAPTER XXVIII.

SELF-RELIANCE—PERSEV ERANCE.

Ler the distrustful man look about him,
and watch the progress of children learning
to walk, or to run, to swim, or to ride; then
let him lift up his eyes and watch the pro-
gress of all beginners in business, the vast
business of life. Beginners are always timid;
yet, in business, beginners are almost always
successful. And it is mostly after they have
become in a degree successful, when they
have enlarged their business, when they
have lost their timidity and become over-
confident in themselves, or presumptuous,