The Best of Wallace D. Wattles: Science Getting Rich, Being Well & Great

The Best of Wallace D. Wattles gathers the essential teachings of one of New Thought's most pragmatic voices, drawing from works such as The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, and The Science of Being Great. Its prose is direct, aphoristic, and practical, translating metaphysical idealism into disciplines of thought, gratitude, action, and self-mastery. In early twentieth-century American self-culture, Wattles writes as a manualist rather than a mystic, joining transcendentalist confidence to success literature. Born in 1860 and active until his death in 1911, Wattles lived amid economic instability, reform politics, and popular mental-healing movements. Acquainted with hardship, he joined New Thought circles and absorbed influences from Emersonian self-reliance, practical Christianity, and social idealism. His belief that thought could cooperate with a lawful, abundant universe was not mere optimism; it was a program for dignity, efficiency, and moral enlargement. This collection is recommended for readers seeking the historical roots of personal-development writing and the spiritual grammar of prosperity literature. Read critically, it offers more than formulas for wealth: it reveals a formative American conviction that inward discipline and outward achievement might be ethically continuous. Wattles remains essential to understanding the genre he helped define.

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