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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

The Trapeze Performer

WATCHING the wonderful work of a tight-rope and trapeze performer, the question arose: What good does it all do? Where is the benefit to the human race in such a sacrifice of time, as this athlete has been obliged to make, in order to reach his astonishing proficiency in a seemingly useless achievement?

Yet this man, and all others who have attained skill in the same difficult line of endeavor, are benefactors to the human race, if we will look at the matter analytically.

They teach us what can be accomplished in any direction by unswerving purpose, unflagging will and persistent patience.

To jump through the air, to catch the hands of another man who is hanging by his feet from a trapeze and oscillating to and fro, to drop those hands and turn the body completely around in midair and then catch the perch from which the original leap is made and vault as lightly to a seat as a bird settles upon a branch, is an achievement which no human being can accomplish, save by one method.

And this method is direct purpose, unfaltering effort and daily practice.

And this method will bring success to any effort, in any line, for any human being who puts it into execution.

When I think of the marvelous control over his body, and over the laws of gravitation which this

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