approach this age, not with fear and trembling, but with hope and eager anticipation.
If you want evidence that most men do not begin to do their best work before
the age of forty, study the records of the most successful men known to the American
people, and you will find it. Henry Ford had not "hit his pace" of achievement until
he had passed the age of forty. Andrew Carnegie was well past forty before he began
to reap the reward of his efforts. James J. Hill was still running a telegraph key at the
age of forty. His stupendous achievements took place after that age. Biographies of
American industrialists and financiers are filled with evidence that the period from forty
to sixty is the most productive age of man.
Between the ages of thirty and forty, man begins to learn (if he ever learns), the
art of sex transmutation. This discovery is generally accidental, and more often
than otherwise, the man who makes it is totally unconscious of his discovery. He may
observe that his powers of achievement have increased around the age of thirty-five
to forty, but in most cases, he is not familiar with the cause of this change; that
Nature begins to harmonize the emotions of love and sex in the individual, between
the ages of thirty and forty, so that he may draw upon these great forces, and apply
them jointly as stimuli to action.
Sex, alone, is a mighty urge to action, but its forces are like a cyclone-they are
often uncontrollable. When the emotion of love begins to mix itself with the emotion