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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 235, 5 October 1870, Page 2

How Success is gained. — In what I am going to say now I am aware that I shall be touching on very delicate ground, as there are one or two persons present who have had some success in the world. But I must say what I think, and I think that not only is success not gained by merit, but depends to a great extent upon demerit. I find that there is a touch of the quack, or the ruffian, or the hard man, ir. everybody who succeeds pre-eminently. In all public assemblages in free countries, who are those who mostly succeed ? It is either the blatant and reckless orator, or the man who speaks clearly and roundly

and forcibly because his views are so limited that he cannot appreciate the reasoning pn the other side. By the way, the more free the country, the more does blatancy of some kind or other succeed. It is not the wise man who governs ; it is the blatant man. And not only in public life, but in private life and in domestic life, demerits enable a man and woman to prevail. The earth is given up to snobs and to the merely prudent people. There is very little room for the Christian or the gentleman. He is evidently not intended to do much here. Sensitiveness, refinement, honesty of thought or purpose, are against a man. To succeed, a mau must always give himself, and not others, the benefit of the doubt, which is just what a Christiau or a gentleman never does. I tell you that it is better to be feared than to be loved in order to get on iu the world. — Conversation and a Ston/, by the author of '" Friends in Council."