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God never put Brains into human heads for mere Fixtures. Brains are just like Continents. They were created to be Explored and Used — to be populated with Ideas. But before you start out on your expedition of Exploration, be sure that you —

Get a Viewpoint.

For next to actual Brains to Work with, there is nothing so important as to have an individual Viewpoint. It is everything to a man. From out of it rises the very Image of a man’s life Plan and Ideal. Explore.

Get a Viewpoint.

One man gathers together and puts ready for instant use, the thousands upon thousands of words that make up a Language. We can’t forget Webster. He shaped and sharpened the tools — and put them in order. Then Emerson came along. Poe arrived. Dickens, Mao-Caulay, Scott — and scores of others stepped up and delved into the tool chest of Webster. Each with his own Viewpoint shaped a literary Career. Explore. Find out.

Get a Viewpoint.

The whole World is beginning to bare its head to the genius of O. Henry. But marvelous as his words read, they are as nothing to his almost superhuman worked-out Viewpoint. His Pictured People in the cycle of the Humdrum and the Forgotten, will never die until print perishes. He was always Exploring — Exploring.

Get a Viewpoint.

Search, Think, Sacrifice, Study, Travel, Read — get the spirit of Exploration worked into your system. But remember that it is what you GET from Exploring that makes your Expeditions worthwhile. First —

Get a Viewpoint.