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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

"After her, the deluge," I said.

I knew a young man who wore his optimism like a boutonniere, always in evidence. Its relation to his mental powers was as a violet to his attire.

One day he came in, smiling, and said: "Congratulate me! I've lost my position."

"You did not like it, then ?" I asked.

"Oh, yes; but I am sure it is all for the best. I shall find something better soon."

"You have an opening in view?"

"Not at all. I am not even looking for a position. It will come to me."

I believe the inevitable is always right. I told the young man so. But when young birds are pushed from the nest by an inevitable law they are expected to use their wings.

If they sit on the grass under the tree where they fall and wait for something to come, that something usually takes the form of an animal with a well developed appetite for tender little birds.

The young man waited two years before the expected position came. Nor was it sent to him. He was obliged to look for it. Two years lost, through a mistaken understanding of the word "optimism." And during those two years he had been obliged to borrow from his less hopeful friends, who were not as advanced as he in metaphysics, but who believed in seeking for what they wanted to find.

Long ago I took for my motto:

This is Love's supreme decree,

Only good can come to me.

It should be a rule for each immortal soul sent into life to perfect itself.

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