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There are two reasons the author has for putting forth this littlevolume: he feels that the time is, as it always has been, ripe for it;and second, his soul has ever longed to express itself upon this endlesstheme. It therefore comes from the heart—the basis of his belief thatit will reach the heart.
R.W.T.
Boston, Massachusetts.
It is impossible for one in a single volume, or perhaps in a number ofvolumes, to reach the exact needs of every reader.
It is always a source of gratitude, as well as of inspiration for betterand more earnest work in the future, for one to know that the truthsthat have been and that are so valuable and so vital to him he hassucceeded in presenting in a manner such that they prove likewise ofvalue to others. The author is most grateful for the good, kind wordsthat have come so generously from so many hundreds of readers of thissimple little volume from all parts of the world. He is also grateful tothat large company of people who have been so good as to put the bookinto the hands of so many others.
And as the days have passed, he has not been unmindful of the fact thathe might make it, when the time came, of still greater value to many.In addition to a general revision of the book, some four or fivequestions that seemed to be most frequently asked he has endeavored topoint answer to in an added part of some thirty pages, under the generaltitle, "Character-building Thought Power." The volume enters thereforeupon its fifteenth thousand better able, possibly, to come a little moredirectly in touch with the every-day needs of those who will besufficiently interested to read it.
R.W.T.
Sunnybrae Farm
Croton-on-the-Hudson
New York
PREFACE.
PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.
CONTENTS.
PART I. THE PRINCIPLE
PART II. THE APPLICATION
PART III. THE UNFOLDMENT
PART IV. THE AWAKENING
PART V. THE INCOMING
PART VI. CHARACTER-BUILDING THOUGHT POWER
How can I make life yield its fullest and best? How can I know the truesecret of power? How can I attain to a true and lasting greatness? Howcan I fill the whole of life w