Napoleon Hill

THE LAW OF SUCCESS IN SIXTEEN LESSONS by Napoleon Hill Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy upon which all Personal Success is Built. PUBLISHED BY The RALSTON UNIVERSITY PRESS MERIDEN, CONN. COPYRIGHT 1928, BY NAPOLEON HILL

Lesson Fifteen TOLERANCE 4 THERE are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and of leaving it behind them everywhere they go. - Faber 5 THE LAW OF SUCCESS Lesson 15 TOLERANCE You Can Do It if You Believe You Can! THERE are two significant features about intolerance, and your attention is directed to these at the beginning of this lesson. These features are: First: Intolerance is a form of ignorance which must be mastered before any form of enduring success may be attained. It is the chief cause of all wars. It makes enemies in business and in the professions. It disintegrates the organized forces of society in a thousand forms, and stands, like a mighty giant, as a barrier to the abolition of war. It dethrones reason and substitutes mob psychology in its place. Second: Intolerance is the chief disintegrating force in the organized religions of the world, where it plays havoc with the greatest power for good there is on this earth, by breaking up that power into small sects and denominations which spend as much effort opposing each other as they do in destroying the evils of the world. But this indictment against intolerance is general. Lets see how it affects you, the individual. It is, of course, obvious that anything which impedes the progress of civilization stands, also, as a barrier to each individual, and, stating it conversely, anything that beclouds the mind of the 6 individual and retards his mental, moral and spiritual development, retards, also, the progress of civilization. All of which is an abstract statement of a great truth: and, inasmuch as abstract statements am neither interesting nor highly informative, let us proceed to illustrate more concretely the damaging effects of intolerance. I will begin this illustration by describing an incident which I have mentioned quite freely in practically every public address that I have delivered within the past five years: but, inasmuch as the cold printed page has a modifying effect which makes possible the misinterpretation of the incident here described, I believe it necessary to