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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 Onward March

WHEN the sentimentalists talk of the vulgarity of this mechanical age, and bemoan the increase of machine work, they do not realize that they are bemoaning the eventual evolution of man to something greater and more godlike than his present state.

When the workingman sets his face against the introduction of a labor-saving machine he does not know it, but he is setting his face against the betterment of the lives of his children or his grandchildren.

When the stage coach, with its regular mails, was first introduced into the country the men who had carried mails on horseback across country declared the stage a monster which took bread from poor men's mouths. After the railroad came the stage coach devotee made the same protest; and the steamship was anathematized by the sailboat, and the trolley by the railroad; gas was considered the destruction of the lamp industry, and electric light was an invention of the devil to the gas company.

Yet each new invention made new industries for labor and created new occupations and new interests for humanity.

The sewing machine brought consternation to the seamstresses and tailors; and the mower was regarded as an enemy of the poor man who had supported himself by wielding the scythe at haying and harvesting seasons.

Yet what one of us to-day would like to see this country dependent upon a mounted man riding across

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