文档介绍：TTHHEE
LLAAWW OOFF
EESSSS
IN SIXTEEN LESSONS
Teaching, for the First Time in the
History of the World, the True Philos-
ophy upon which all Personal ess
is Built.
BY
NAPOLEON HILL
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PUBLISHED BY
The RALSTON UNIVERSITY PRESS
MERIDEN, CONN.
Ebook version ©Minding the Future Ltd, 2003, All Rights Reserved
COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY
NAPOLEON HILL
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Lesson Three
SELF-CONFIDENCE
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AMIDST all the mys-
teries by which we are
surrounded, nothing is
more certain than that
we are in the presence
of an Infinite and
Eternal Energy from
which all things
proceed.
- Herbert Spencer
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THE LAW OF ESS
Lesson Three
SELF-CONFIDENCE
"You Can Do It if You Believe You Can!"
BEFORE approaching the fundamental principles
upon which this lesson is founded it will be of benefit
to you to keep in mind the fact that it is practical -
that it brings you the discoveries of more than twenty-
five years of research-that it has the approval of the
leading scientific men and women of the world who
have tested every principle involved.
Skepticism is the deadly enemy of progress and
self-development. You might as well lay this book
aside and stop right here as to approach this lesson
with the feeling that it was written by some long-
haired theorist who had never tested the principles
upon which the lesson is based.
Surely this is no age for the skeptic, because it is
an age in which we have seen more of Nature's laws
uncovered and harnessed than had been discovered in
all past history of the human race. Within three
decades we have witnessed the mastery of the air; we
have explored the ocean; we have all but annihilated
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distances on the earth; w