Show the capacity for steady thinking I 1 have lave asked and ami it is a good test can you on a lon long railway journey think out a problem on a great social subject will you begin to think out that problem when you have before you two hours in a railway carriage this is simply a faini of mental indolence they can not concentrate themselves and brin bring their thoughts sufficiently together to do spontaneous work it partly comes from this again that they will not give themselves time from that they get out ot of the habit of steady thought and they will vill riot not dwell long upon one subject both in ill reading and in thinking you never get far unless you will bavel have a long iong consecutive tete a tete with your book 0 or r with your your problem people read and think in the same way that they the visit their acquaintances and friends they have lave an exciting conversation t ion for fora a few minutes and then the visit is over I 1 you wish to see a landscape or explore a character yon must take time and it must bo be done by steady cansis consistent tent and continuous thought lit I 1 bespeak therefore for reading and for thinking greater deliberation more careful choice of material more consecutive ness and continuity and above all that it should never become necessary to hurry through anything whether it be lecture or book or leni mr Goscher Gos chens ls lecture |