A young Englishman once failed to pass the medical examination on which he thought his future depended.
"Never mind," he said to himself. "What is the next thing to be done?" and he found that policy of "never minding," and going on to the next thing, the most important of all policies for practical life. When he had become one of the greatest scientists of the age, Huxley looked back upon his early defeat and wrote:
"It does not matter how many tumbles you have in life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble. It is only the people who have to stop and be washed who must lose the race."
