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the Soul. There is but one sure foundation for individual and for national integrity, but one sure foundation for character, and that is SELF RELIANCE. Self-reliance must find its rise in Self Knowledge and Self Respect. For this reason I feel that I am in my work practicalizing America's greatest essay... Emerson's "Self-Reliance." All my writings are pitched to the one keynote. BE THYSELF!
The object of this book, and all my books, magazines and lessons is to assist others in finding themselves, for each is Power to overcome all conditions and circumstances, and the Power with each is directed in the Will. This Will is trained and directed only through faith in self. "I Can is the Affirmation of Character, Health and Happiness. Self assertion its one name.
Through the success of these books I became aware of the world-wide interest now manifested in New Thought, and felt that this stream needed guiding and clarifying. Therefore I wrote my "New Thought Primer; Origin, History and Principles of the Movement." This book is also a child of "How to Control Fate," for my purpose was, as much as anything, to bring to the intelligent the thought this movement was also Evolution, and that human enfoldment had ever been controlled by the Law of Suggestion.
There is no creation. Progress is but the coming into expression of that which eternally has been. New movements arise in a conception which is but an extension of a previous conception, and that of a previous conception, and so on back to primitive man, of a divine, infinite and eternal idea, which finds expression through human ideals. These ideals become incorporated into institutions, and a civilization which later ideals modify. Thus external conditions are but the materialization of Thoughts born
