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Tender handed grasp a nettle,

And it stings you for your pains.
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as down remains.
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Chapter XX.
The Marks of the Negative Will.
By way of contrast and warning, we now call your attention
to the characteristics of those possessing negative Will
Power that is those who lack positivity in Will.
Lack of Perception. This is one of the marks of the negative
will. The person fails to see and know what is going on about
him, and in the world. He lacks an awareness of things, and
consequently his world is narrowed and petty. This being so, he
fails to see things which would arouse his ambition and laudable
desires, which in turn would lead to the activities of will. Lack
of perception is practically akin to lack of the senses. Without
the use of the perceptive faculties man lives a vegetative life. He
does not know the world around him at all. He does not know
things, people, occurrences, and all that go to make up an
active life. Not seeing, he cannot think. Not seeing, he cannot
use his imagination properly. Not seeing, his desires are simply
the inherited desires of the race. Not desiring, he cannot Will.
The world is filled with these human-vegetables, cabbages in
human form.
Lack of Aspiration. This is another mark of the negative will.
The person fails to manifest the emotive activities which urge him
upward and onward. His desires and emotions are all concerned
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