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On Race Training: 

December 10, 1943

The man [Christian] was thinking, as he nearly always did, turning over and over in his mind, one thought after another, like a cow chewing a cud. Maybe some day men would be trained consciously--not by an unconscious process as the best of them were now done, but by a day-by-day do-this, do-that, eat-this, eat-that, until they would begin to know their own potentialities. Not a race of yes-men, nor a race of imbeciles open to anyone's command, but let conscious training of self be one of the cardinal points of such a program, and the results in a few years would be fantastic and unbelievable.

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