Hence we state
THE FIRST GREAT PRINCIPLE OF FEAR-CONQUEST.
Timidity, apprehension, fear, alarm, fright, consternation,
terror, panic, desperation, are all false imitations of reason's
interpretation of the warning signals of Nature, to be displaced
by reason itself, which may then determine whether the occasion be
real or unreal, and always to be disregarded and overcome if
evidently refering to causes which do not actually exist.
This principle is adduced in the interest of three things: peace,
health, power. You are invited to note how vital these interests
really are.
The truest peace, of which courage is a sublime bloom, is a growth
solely of honorable living and robust self-respect.
Health is of the following realities: body, mind, soul--the deeper
self. Health is soundness. A sound human is a triune wholeness.
Physical soundness with weak intellect is often the athletic field
of superstitions innumerable. Intellectual greed in an unsound
body may breed the direst fears of life.
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