But so far as you yourself are concerned, do not stop to excuse any delinquency or half-heartedness or defeat by the plea of circumstance or environment.
The great nature makes its own environment, and dominates circumstance.
It all depends upon the amount of force in your own soul.
While you apply this rule to yourself and make no scapegoat of "fate," you must have consideration for the weakness of others, and you must try and better the conditions of the world as you go along.
You are robust and possessed of all your limbs. You can mount over the great boulder which has fallen in the road to success, and go on your way to your goal all the stronger for the experience.
But behind you comes a one-legged man—a blind man—a man bowed to the earth with a heavy burden, which he cannot lay down.
It will require weeks, months, years of effort on their part to climb over that rock which you surmounted in a few hours.
So it is right and just for you to call other strong ones to your aid and roll the boulder away or blast it out of the path.
That is just exactly the way you should think of the present industrial conditions.
In spite of them, the strong, well-poised, earnest and determined soul can reach any desired success.