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by thinking that she prefers love to social consideration, 
or vice versa. 
One woman may stay with an 
unsympathetic husband when she would really be happy 
in an attic with a lover, while another may fool herself 
into a romantic elopement when her only true pleasures 
are those of presiding at fashionable functions. Again, a 
boy's instinct may tell him to go to sea, while his 
parents insist on his becoming a doctor. In such a case, 
he will be both unsuccessful and unhappy in medicine.) 
8. A man whose conscious will is at odds with his True 
Will is wasting his strength. He cannot hope to influence his 
environment efficiently. 
(Illustration: When Civil War rages in a nation, it is in no 
condition to undertake the invasion of other countries . 
A man with cancer employs his nourishment alike to his 
own use and to that of the enemy which is part of 
himself. He soon fails to resist the pressure of his 
environment. In practical life, a man who is doing what 
his conscience tells him to be wrong will do it very 
clumsily. At first!) 
9. A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the 
Universe to assist him. 
(Illustration: The first principle of success in evolution 
is that the individual should be true to his own nature, 
and at the same time adapt himself to his environment.) 
10. Nature is a continuous phenomenon, though we do 
not know in all cases how things are connected. 
(Illustration: 
Human consciousness depends on the 
properties 
of protoplasm, 
the existence of which 
depends on innumerable physical conditions peculiar to 
this planet; and this planet is determined by the 
mechanical balance of the whole universe of matter . We 
may then say that our consicousness is causally 
connected with the remotest galaxies; yet we do not 
know even how it arises from-or with-the molecular 
changes in the brain.) 
11. Science enables us to take advantage of the continuity