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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


Famous and Infamous Women

IF YOU have access to a good library (as you surely have in these days of many libraries), devote a half hour a day, at least, to reading history.

Select histories which will tell you about the famous rulers, kings, queens, emperors, statesmen, senators of old.

Read about the Medicis, Catharine of Russia, Cleopatra, Napoleon, the doges of Venice, the queens of England, the kings of France and the famous and infamous women who ruled their courts --- and, after you have read, think about the poor little fleeting time of glory mixed with misery which these people enjoyed.

They were all eaten up with fear, jealousy, rivalries and hatred. Fathers and sons, mothers and sons, became enemies when personal ambition stood between them; enemies to the death. Charles V. of Spain was a party to the murder of his own son; Cleopatra led an army against her son; Nero plotted to kill his own mother, and a hundred instances could be cited where men and women famous in the annals of history as great rulers connived at the murder or imprisonment of their own next of kin in order to retain or obtain a little fleeting temporal power.

The number of women who sold self-respect, honor, virtue and all claim to the world's respect for the sake of shining in the courts of kings is legion. One is led to question why so many such famous

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