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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 New Thought of Economy

ONE of the first lessons drilled into the youthful brain by the gimlet of continual homilies is the idea of economy.

"Waste not, want not:" "Save the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves," and a score of other old adages are given the young mind, to train it in the way it should go.

But while economy is a virtue, parsimony is a crime; and few parents draw a distinction between the two in talking to their children. I believe in saving a portion of one's earnings; I believe in keeping in advance of necessity, because it means usefulness, instead of dependence; lifting, instead of leaning; hopefulness, instead of fear, in facing the future.

But of two misfortunes, I would rather see a child lean toward extravagance, if that extravagance were coupled with generosity, than toward a miserly tendency to accumulate and save.

Nothing dwarfs the whole nature more than parsimony. A young man whose leading thought is economy, and who counts every cent over and over with miserly care before indulging in a necessary expenditure or a graceful courtesy toward a friend, is certain to grow narrow in his sympathies and prejudiced in his opinions, and, like a dwarfed, perverted vine, his tendrils will turn in and cling about himself instead of reaching out to adorn the world.

If you are just setting forth in life with an ambition to achieve, let generosity stand side by side with

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