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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

masculine a nature as hers could not have dwelt in a femininely beautiful body.

The great beauties who have ruled their worlds to any important extent have always coupled brains and tact with their physical charms.

Ninon de L'Enclos was exceptionally gifted mentally, and so was Madame Recathier. Neither woman could have exerted so vast and permanent an influence by beauty alone.

Very many of their subjects who imagined they worshiped at beauty's shrine were undoubtedly held in bondage by other qualities.

Without question, the world respects and admires intellect in women more to-day than in former eras. There was a time --- the time of Aspasia and her contemporaries --- when a woman was obliged to rank herself among the declasse, if she wished for a general education.

To think outside of domestic and sentimental subjects was supposed to unsex her. A woman was forced to defy conventionalities and forego domesticity, if she insisted upon being intellectual.

The progress of the world has changed all that. Woman is allowed to do as she pleases in the mental realm, and her achievements are applauded and respected. The intelligent girl puts the ignorant beauty to confusion.

But the really wise, as well as brainy woman, knows the value of beauty, and cultivates it. Beauty is, after all, a matter of individual opinion. There is no standard by which it can be decided to please everybody.

The most exquisite brunette of personal attractions will be found lacking in charm by somebody who

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