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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 High Calling of Motherhood

IT is not so much what you are doing, my dear madame, before your child is born, as what you are thinking, which molds its character.

Over and over I would reiterate what I believe to be a great truth --- children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents --- those things of which the parents think and dream and long to do.

Therefore, cultivate your mind to dwell upon good and worthy and beautiful desires. Read tales of noble achievements and histories of great characters, and infuse all your thoughts with high aspirations.

A story comes to me from a personal friend who sings. Before the birth of her son she sang hours at a time day after day, and week after week. Her voice was in excellent condition, and she gave full vent to her song impulses.

The child cries at the sound of music and shows an evident distaste for it. He is nearly eight years old now and cannot carry the simplest air. This is because the mother exhausted her own desire to sing during the prenatal period.

Had she thought of music, listened to it and enjoyed it mentally and with the imagination, it is more than probable that her child would have been musical. Mothers who exhaust their nervous systems in any line of endeavor do not bestow the ability to achieve in this same line upon their children.

The camera which receives the impression must be still.

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