TOLERANCE 939An important objective of this course, and particularly of this
lesson, is to educate more than it is to inform. It should awaken the
power within you that awaits some appropriate stimulus to arouse
you to action.
In conclusion, I leave with you my personal sentiments on Tolerance,
in the following essay which I wrote in the hour of my most trying
experience, when an enemy was trying to ruin my reputation and
destroy the results of a lifetime of honest effort to do some good
in the world.COMMENTARY
The Tolerance essay on the following page also appears in the After-
the-Lesson Visit with the Author at the end of Lesson Five. The slight
variations in each of the two versions in this revised edition are the same
as they were in the original edition of this book.
With the 1928 edition of the book, and with the course on which it
was based, a wallhanger of this essay was sent to each person who
returned the Personal Analysis Questionnaire referred to at the end of
Lesson Seventeen. In the version on the following page we present the
essay in a similar format.