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IF WE EVER WONDER about our ability to persevere, we need only to watch an infant who is ready to walk. He stands and falls and stands and falls again and again, until at last he achieves a fair sense of equilibrium. Then he makes the supreme effort to put one foot forward. Again it is a battle of balance. But the baby persists; to stand and walk becomes his chief waking effort until the day comes when he takes a step or two on his own and unsupported.