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The Ancient Lineage of New Thought - The Anti-toxin of Common Sense - Are You Doing the Best You Can? - Be Not Easily Offended - For What Are You Living? - Ignore Misfortune - The Power of Personality - Common Sense and "Goodness" - "Good Business" - The Trapeze Performer - The High Calling of Fatherhood - The High Calling of Motherhood - Thought Building for Children - The New Thought Economy - What Is a Good Woman? - The Color of Your Thoughts - "In God We Trust" - Are You Alive? - Something About Celibacy - The Old and the New Thought View of Life - The Cities Beyond - The Onward March - Common Sense Ideas in Marriage - The Shading of the Picture - Woman and the Cigarette - Sinning Against the "Holy Ghost" - New Thoughts and Beauty - Famous and Infamous Women - Enemies to Happiness - The New Year - Enthusiasm - Brace Up - Universal Need - Every Day Opportunities - The Masters - Building Kindness Cells - What Is Optimism? - What Is the Loving Thing to Do? - A New Thought Rosary - Unto the End - Keep Still and Wait - What Life Means to Me - Contents - Index

There is no amount of education you can bestow upon your boys and girls which will make them cultured or well-bred members of society unless you build this groundwork of decent manners and habits in their early youth.

For now the plastic brain cells are being formed, and you are the potter who can shape your children as you will, if you care to give the great work your careful, loving attention.

I talked recently with a gifted young man, whose only obstacle to great success in his chosen work is lack of self-confidence. This man was brought up by a father who continually ridiculed his son, in early youth, in order to prevent him from becoming egotistical.

Whatever the boy attempted to do, the father declared impossible, and laughed at his conceit for supposing he possessed the requisite qualities for such an endeavor.

The son was specially dowered by nature and temperament for the dramatic profession and is now playing in third-class companies, while he would be a capable leading man in the best theatrical companies, had he been encouraged and made to believe in himself.

"Always when I approach a manager," he said, "I shrink in my own estimation, and remember things my father said to me of my egotism and presumption.

And the manager, of course, takes my own estimate of myself, and I do not get the role I want."

There are many mothers making the same deplorable mistake with a young daughter.

They are so concerned lest the girl become vain and silly with pride of beauty or attainments, that they

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