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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

But the drone is finally driven from the hive --- and dies, however cheerful may be his views. Bees demand work, not opinions.

I remember a woman who prided herself upon her optimism. She was forever projecting it, like a glaring searchlight, into the eyes of the unprotected. Often, when I saw her approaching, I wished for blinders.

She dashed in through my door one day, when a howling northeaster was laying three days' siege on the countryside. She wore an oilskin suit and carried no umbrella.

"What a glorious day," she said rhapsodically, while she held the door open leisurely, letting in a blast of wind and a deluge of rain. Then she sat down on a cushioned divan, and little rivers of rain ran down her skirt upon my floor.

"It is a perfectly beautiful day to go about," she continued. "I just love it."

I was glad she loved it, but I would have preferred a caller who disliked it sufficiently to carry an umbrella and leave it outside my door.

This "optimist" made work for others by her peculiar phase of optimism. That is frequently the result of undiscriminating optimism.

"I always see the silver lining under clouds like these," she said, "and I know what lovely sunshine follows this weather."

I knew it, too, but, meanwhile, I saw the puddles of rain forming pools on the floor and running under the edge of my rug.

My optimistic caller tramped triumphantly away, to teach other benighted people how to be happy though wet, and the maid and I set about cleaning up the flood.

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