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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

Are You Alive?

WANDERING over this big little world, and studying the people in many lands, one must be impressed with the vast preponderance of living dead creatures, who cumber the earth with their bodies, and rob the air of its oxygen, and disturb the silence with their complaints.

People whose minds are dead to every thought save the needs of the body; whose souls are asleep so soundly that they are deaf to the call continually sounding through space to each immortal spirit on every sphere --- the call come higher --- and whose bodies are, in consequence, sources of discomfort, pain, misery and disease, or else of trivial worry.

With thoughts bound to the wheel of physical anxieties, the days go around and around, and their minds rise never beyond what to eat, what to wear, what to do to find amusement, what to do to "get even" with somebody for a fancied wrong, or to "get ahead" of a rival; how to get well of this and that ailment; what to take to obtain personal strength; and, for a slight variation of thought, how to make a fortune in a hurry.

For mental recreation, they indulge in criticisms of others who have erred, who have fallen by the wayside, or who have risen too high upon the wave of fortune.

There are thousands, and tens of thousands --- yes, millions --- of such people on earth.

Are you one of these?

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