Sidney, Samuel and Some Americans most widely read among " New Thought," writers is Mr. Orison Swett Marden, an American who has produced a prodigious number of books all inspired with the passionate hope of making the The reader may have noticed from meanest of mortals sit up and take time to time an advertisement in) notice. The fact that Mr. Marden the local press modestly inviting repeats himself in his books with the public to become interested in astonishing fertility, and never what is called the "New Thought' tires of quoting himself in success movement: To many, doubtless, the|Sive volumes, does not necessarily phrase New Thought? carries an detract from the value of the few air of novelty; but, as may have 8t@ins of wheat scattered over his uninitiate, there is nothing new in cally a "best seller" in the philoso-been shrewdly guessed by even the} Wide literary field. He is emphatic new thought except its name. New Phic line, sufficient proof of his Thought' is simply a recasting of ancient ideas on the subjects of health, wealth and happiness—with particular emphasis upon wealth. Professors of the new way of life—their name is legion in America—have consciously or otherwise acquired and re-interpreted the philosophy of all the schools from Marcus Aurelius to Professor Wil liam James, and their chief merit lies in having fashioned a way of looking at lite which can be understood of the people and acted upon with good results, bration are all of them lineal de-These apostles of the new cerescendants of the late Samuel Smiles, (What a splendid trade name, by the way, for a teacher of optimism). In "Self Help," the late Doctor administered a'mild and we trust beneficial stimulant to the youth of a by-gone generation. The imagitation of its worthy author, however, never for a moment soared Above the homely virtues of thrift and plodding industry; and even so, the old Victorian suffered scornful rebuke when Mr, Sidney Webb and his clever Fabian collaboraters discovered that thrift among the poor was a snare anda delusion, leading nowhere except into a blind alley—possibly up a tree, "Self Help" fell into disrepute among the rising proletarian intellectuals and its lesson on pro-Press through individual effort has been superseded by the doctrine afore a poor man may get Part of the nation's wealth he must obtain the whole of it—Socialism.
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