Excerpt from Turning-Points in Life
Any one who has arrived at that era of his own history in which Memory more than Hope governs the horizon of human life - who analyzes the motives and muses on the events of his own life-story, and who learns to watch with intense human interest that drama of life which day by day is unfolding in all the relationships that surround him - will, I think, understand the title of this work, and the line of thought indicated by the phrase. There are, unquestionably, "turning-points" both in the history of the race and in the history of the individual. Such are the great battles, the great revolutions, the great discoveries of history. Each art, each science, has its "turning-points" - its moments. Such are evermore to be found in the lives of individuals. These turning-points are not mere accidents. They have generally a moral significance, and are fraught with special lessons.
In what men regard as mere chance-work there is often order and design. What we call a "turning-point" is simply an occasion which sums up and brings to a result previous training. Accidental circumstances are nothing except to men who have been trained to take advantage of them.
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