This psychological idea should not of course keep us from cultivating the principle of modesty. If a man without learning says, "I am learned," it does not mean that he will become learned. If without having a voice he claims to be a tenor, this will not make him a tenor. If he has not got those qualities he should not profess them, though he may anticipate them and expect them. He should not say that he is not entitled to them; he should say, "I am entitled to all that opens the door to progress." But as soon as a man admits to himself that he has not got that quality, that intelligence, that power, that gift in him, he himself drives spirit out of that world.