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Several Things That Have Helped People
BY
WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON
ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF "NEW THOUGHT," CHICAGO; AUTHOR OF
"THOUGHT FORCE," "THE LAW OF THE
NEW THOUGHT," ETC.
PUBLISHED BY
THE PSYCHIC RESEARCH COMPANY,
3835 Vincennes Ave.
CHICAGO, ILL., U. S. A.
1902
COPYRIGHT, 1902,
BY THE PSYCHIC RESEARCH COMPANY,
CHICAGO, ILL.
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I do not like writing a preface—it seems too much like an apology. Ihave no special apology to tender for offering this collection of NewThought nuggets. They may possess no literary merit, but they havehelped men and women. With the exception of "The Secret of theI Am," these essays appeared from month to month in "New Thought," ofwhich magazine I am associate editor. They were written hastily,principally upon the demand of the printer for "copy," and, for themost part, were printed just as they were written, there being no timefor revision or polishing up. You may pick up any one of them and findmany sentences needing straightening out—many thoughts which could bebetter expressed by the change of a few words. Knowing these things, Ifirst thought that I would go over each essay and add a little here,and take away a little there, polishing up and burnishing as I wentalong. But when I looked over them, my heart failed me. There theywere just as they were written—just as they were dug out of mymind—and I hadn't the heart to change them. I remembered thecircumstances surrounding the writing of every one of them, and I letthem alone. A "nugget" polished up would be no longer a nugget. Andthese thoughts are nuggets—I dug them myself. I will not say muchregarding the quality of the metal—that is for you—but you see themjust as they came from the mine—rough, unpolished, mixed with therock, queerly shaped. If you think that they contain metal ofsufficiently good quality, refine them, melt them and fashion theminto something useful or ornamental. For myself, I like things withthe bark on—with the marks of the hammer—with the original quartzadhering to the metal. But others are of different taste—they likeeverything to feel smooth to the touch. They will not like thesenuggets. Alas, I cannot help it—I cannot produce the beautifullyfinished article—I have n