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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


Woman and the Cigarette

THE growing tendency of woman to smoke must be regarded as a misfortune to the race by all who think deeper than the surface of things.

It is useless to say that the vice is no more injurious to woman than to man. The subject does not end there. Until nature provides some other way for the race to obtain birth than its present method, the habits and thoughts of woman are of greater importance to the world than those of men.

Every child comes into the world strongly impressed by the prenatal condition surrounding the mother.

Science has proven that the poorly nourished and ill-fed mother produces an anemic and weakly child, and that drinking mothers produce diseased or abnormal children. In countries where great poverty exists, and where women are the burden bearers, the race is almost always undersized.

The accumulation of proofs that the thoughts of the mother affect the child before birth is overwhelming. Physically and psychically the mother's part in making her child what it proves to be is so great that it borders close upon omnipotence. Napoleon's mother read histories of war and was fired with the conquests of great warriors before his birth. A woman of my acquaintance has an abnormal appetite for fruit because before her birth her mother was living on a ranch where fruit was not to be obtained. The suppressed desires, tendencies and appetites

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