over our dispositions, over our irritableness and peevishness and snappishness? If we want it and desire it above everything else, we can get victory. People are apt to think that these little things (as we call them) are weaknesses that we are not responsible for; that they are misfortunes, that we inherited them. I have heard people talk about their temper. They say, “Well, I inherited it from my father and mother; they were quick-tempered, and I got it from them.” Well, that is a poor place to