SELF-CONFIDENCE 251It was faith that cut the shackles of limitation from the mind of
Professor Einstein and revealed to him mathematical principles that the
world had not even suspected to exist. No fear-bound mind could have
uncovered such a miracle.
It was faith that sustained our own beloved Washington and drove
him on to victory in opposition to vastly superior physical forces-a
form of faith born of his love for freedom for mankind.
The profound principle known as faith is as available to you as it
ever was to any human being who has passed this way.
If your world is one of limitation, misery, and want, it is because
you have not yet realized that you have in your own mind a laboratory
that is equipped to engender the power of faith.
lj we may judge the possibilities oj the future by the achievements oj the past,
the miracles remaining to be uncovered are vastly greater in number and nature
than those that have been revealed in the past. It is not yet revealed what our
destiny may be.
This is an age of revelation!
Those who believe that the power of revelation passed away with
the superstition and ignorance which prevailed a few hundred years ago
have but little comprehension of our modern history.
Men like Edison, the Wright brothers, Columbus, Copernicus,
Arthur Nash, Gandhi, Einstein, and Washington are all miracle men.
They have removed the horizons of men's minds and discovered unto
us new worlds. Ours is a day of miracles; and this is an age of faith.
The world is passing through an experience that will call for many
forms of readjustment of human relationships. The real Leadership will
be found among those who have great capacity for faith. There will
be no place in the immediate future for the weaklings and those who
still believe that miracles belong only in the age of the dead past, or
that they are wrapped up in unfathomable mystery.
The miracles oj the future will be revealed by science.