What we are is determined every moment by the sum total of these impressions on the mind. What i am just at this moment, is the effect of the sum of total of all the impressions of my past life. This is really what is meant by character; each man's character is determined by the sum total of these impression. If good impressions prevail,the character become good; if bad,it become bad. If a man continuously hears bad words,
thinks bad thought, does bad act, his mind will be full of bad impressions; and they will influence his thought and work without his being conscious of the fact. The bad impression will always be working and there resultant must be evil, and the man will be a bad man, he can not help it. The sum total of these impressions in him well create a strong motive power for doing bad acts. He will be like a machine in the hand of his impressions, and they will force him to do evil. Similarly,if a man thinks goods thoughts and does good work, the sum total of their imperssions will be good; and this,in a similar manner,will force him to do good even in spite of himself. When a man has done so much good work and thought so many good thoughts that there is an irresistible tendency in him to do well in spite of himself and even if he wishes to do evil, his mind, as the sum total of his tendencies, will not allow him to do so; these will hold him back. When such is the case the man's good character is said to be established. "
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