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This brings us to the question — What is New Thought? I can think of no more perfect, full and complete definition of it than we find in those wonderful words of Schopenhauer — "Clear Vision of the World."

New Thought stands for a tremendous movement of the human mind toward the understanding of things as they really are. From the beginning of human life on this planet, from our earliest savage ancestors, it has been a long, hard voyage of exploration and discovery, without a chart to guide, except that of pain or pleasure.

I believe that Man has always instinctively sought the Truth, but has encountered it veiled; hence his false beliefs regarding it. In the evolution of a germ of Truth existing in each false belief lies the advance to "Clear Vision of the World."

We cannot imagine what this earth appeared to primal Man, but we know that it seemed under the dominion of grim, cruel forces, always arrayed against him in the struggle for existence.

Now, in his clear vision he sees those forces as beneficent, all working toward his highest evolution, all tending toward ultimate health, joy and general well being. These states of mind and body cannot be laid on Man from the outside; they must be worked out from within, as a spider weaves its web out of its own substance. God does not confer Joy as an unearned gift upon Man. He brings it forth from him by means of the Divine Urge.

As Man's enlarging intelligence compasses more