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The Science of Getting Rich 

   Author(s): Wallace Delois Wattles  

        Publisher: Forgotten Books, Year: 2008   

                                        

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The author of the bestselling The Secret has quoted this little 'prosperity awareness' book as a primary source. It remains to be seen, somewhat representative of the periodical literature on this belief system, if the current version of this has anything new to say that has not been said here, as in several other texts. Wallace Delois Wattles (1860 - 1911)Wallace Delois Wattles (1860 - 1911) was an American author. (Quote from sacred-texts.com)About the author, He remains individually somewhat unknown as a pioneer achievement researcher, but his writing has become widely prominent in the trends of New Thought and self-help. The best-known work of Wattles is a 1910 book called The Science of Getting Rich in which he discussed how to become wealthy. He seemed to have personally "tested" the ideals he outlined and they evidently succeeded, for while he had spent much of his life in poverty, he was a wealthy man in his later years. What little is known about Wattles' life comes from the text of a letter written to the New Thinking author Elizabeth Towne by his daughter Florence after his death? (Towne was the editor of the secular New Thought journal Nautilus and wrote several articles by Wattles from the establishment of the magazine in 1898 until the death of Wattles in 1911.) From the letter from Florence, one discovers that Wattles was born in the United States shortly before the American Civil War, encountered a great deal of disappointment in his early years, and later in life started to research the different religious beloveds.

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