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enables them to master the sources of worry and petty annoyance which beset
their pathway on the lower plane.

Unfortunately, only the genii have made the discovery. Others have accepted
the experience of sex urge, without discovering one of its major potentialities-a
fact which accounts for the great number of "others" as compared to the limited
number of genii.

For the purpose of refreshing the memory, in connection with the facts available
from the biographies of certain men, we here present the names of a few men
of outstanding achievement, each of whom was known to have been of a highly
sexed nature. The genius which was their's, undoubtedly found its source of pow-
er in transmuted sex energy:

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GEORGE WASHINGTON
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
ROBERT BURNS
THOMAS JEFFERSON
ELBERT HUBBARD
ELBERT H. GARY
OSCAR WILDE
WOODROW WILSON
JOHN H. PATTERSON
ANDREW JACKSON
ENRICO CARUSO

Your own knowledge of biography will enable you to add to this list. Find, if you
can, a single man, in all history of civilization, who achieved outstanding success
in any calling, who was not driven by a well developed sex nature.

If you do not wish to rely upon biographies of men not now living, take inventory
of those whom you know to be men of great achievement, and see if you can find
one among them who is not highly sexed. Sex energy is the creative energy of all
genii. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder, or artist
lacking in this driving force of sex.

Surely no one will misunderstand these statements to mean that ALL who are
highly sexed are genii! Man attains to the status of a genius ONLY when, and IF,
he stimulates his mind so that it draws upon the forces available, through the