文档介绍：Thought-Force In Business
& Everyday Life
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by William Walker Atkinson
New Thought Publishing Co., Chicago, 1906.
This ebook edition is Copyright 2002 © Cornerstone Publishing.
All Rights Reserved
TO THE MEMORY OF
PRENTICE MULFORD
A DIAMOND WHOSE RADIANCE HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY
OBSCURED BY THE MERETRICIOUS GLITTER OF
PASTE IMITATIONS, THIS LITTLE BOOK IS
REVERENTLY DEDICATED, BY ONE WHO
REGRETS HIS INABILITY TO LAY
A MORE WORTHY OFFER-
ING UPON THE
NEGLECTED
SHRINE.
.
"LEST WE FORGET."
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"The nearer to the practical men keep-
The less they deal in vague and abstract things-
The less they deal in huge, mysterious words-
The mightier is their power."
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"The simple peasant who observes a truth,
And from the fact deduces principle,
Adds solid treasure to the public wealth.
The theorist who dreams a rainbow dream,
And calls hypothesis philosophy,
At best is but a paper financier
Who palms his specious promises for gold.
Facts are the basis of philosophy,
Philosophy the harmony of facts."
-- Thomas L. Harris, in "Lyrics of a Golden Age."
PREFACE
In justice to myself, I think it well to state that this work has been somewhat
hastily prepared from the notes used by me in certain of lectures, the lessons give
herein practically being the syllabi of the said lectures. In the lectures, and in this
work, my one and only purpose has been to acquaint the students with the means
of developing, and effectively using the mighty forces latent within him - Personal
ism and Psychic Influence. To this end I have scarified all pretensions to
literary style, all attempts to secure felicity of diction.
I have felt that I had a message to deliver, and I endeavored to deliver it promptly,
clearly and plainly, without any attempt at "fine writing." If a homely word
seemed to express my thought - I used it. If a slang term or semi-slang phrase
seemed