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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

What Is Optimism?

IN THIS era, when Metaphysical "New Thought" is talked more continually than it is lived consistently, we hear much of "Optimism."

Yet, who can define the exact meaning of that word?

The man who was told to "look on the bright side of things" replied that he "looked on the side that was up.

To forever declare the side that is up, bright, though undeniably black, is not optimism --- it is nonsense.

To turn things over and find a bright side, to polish them and make a bright side, that is practical optimism.

Without doubt, the mental attitude helps, or hinders, the actual effort. The man who enthusiastically thinks success while working for it, achieves more than double the results attained by one who couples the same effort with an indifferent or unbelieving mind.

Genius is not a mere capacity for hard work.

Hard work done without enthusiasm never stirred the pulse of the world nor fired a human heart. Genius is the child of enthusiasm, but it remains a child and dies mute and inglorious, unless clothed with action, and crowned with persistence.

Enthusiasm, Genius, Optimism --- they are great words; they are powerful factors in the development of the individual and of the race --- mighty movers in the world of progress; but they possess no lasting

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