A great many cases of bad, _i.

e._, indifferent scholarship, are due to bad teaching of the rudiments by adults who took no _interest_ in their pupils, and therefore inspired none.
_To determine what course to follow in any Emergency_.

Many a man often wishes with all his heart that he had some wise friend to consult in his perplexities.

What to do in a business trouble when we are certain that there is an exit if we could only find it--a sure way to tame an unruly horse if we had the secret--to do or not to do whate'er the question--truly all this causes great trouble in life.
But, it is within the power of man to be his own friend, yes, and companion, to a degree of which none have ever dreamed, and which borders on the _weird_, or that which forebodes or suggests mysteries to come.

For it may come to pass that he who has trained himself to it, may commune with his spirit as with a companion.
This is, of course, done by just setting the problem, or question, or dilemma, before ourselves as clearly as we can, so as to know our own minds as well as possible.