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The Science of
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By Wallace D. Wattles
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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents ............................................................................iii
Introduction ...................................................................................... v
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Author’s Preface ................................................................................ ix
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Chapter 1:
The Right To Be Rich ................................................. 1
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There Is A Science of Getting Rich .......................... 5
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Is Opportunity Monopolized? ................................. 9
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The Science of Getting Rich v
Introduction
n the spring of 1998, a man I’d never met sent me a book I’d
“ ... there are Universal
never heard of, written long ago by a man by a man who’d
Laws at work.”
I.. been dead nearly 90 years.
That little book changed my entire life. As I put into practice
the principles you’ll learn about in this book, the results were
astonishing — and they began almost instantly and continue to
this day.
When The Science of Getting Rich arrived in the mail that after-
noon I immediately ripped open the package, sat down, and read
it with an open mind — mostly because the title was just so in-
triguing. And even though I must admit I found some of the
old-fashioned language and some of the ideas in the first part a
bit confusing, there was something about it that compelled me
to reread those little confusing bits two or three times until — I
got it!
Once I did that, I couldn’t stop reading until I’d read the whole
thing!
Right away I began to put into practice what the book outlines
... and everything began to change. “Coincidences" happened
— happy ones that led to connections with people ... that led to
more connections ... that led to money beginning to flow toward
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nels, including new and unexpected ones.
And even though changing your habitual thinking is difficult
and I’m still not as good at it as I intend to be, my businesses
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Until this book arrived, nothing I had ever read or heard be-
fore had explained to me so clearly that there are universal laws
at work regarding wealth and success and that if we’ll just work
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with those laws — go with the tide instead of trying to swim
against it (usually unknowingly) — the results we want will be-
gin to come to us. That if we will scientifically reproduce the
causes of wealth, we will invariably reproduce the results.
Now, right off the bat author Wallace D. Wattles says that in-
stead of questioning how these principles work, you’ll need sim-
ply to accept them and begin to practice them. So I did that, even
though as I read I did find myself resisting from time to time
and thinking, “Well, I don’t know if I can agree with that.” But
I’d already decided just to accept (at least temporarily) each
premise as if I did thoroughly believe it.
By the time I finished the book I understood why he had in-
cluded that warning. You see, some of what you’ll read will most
likely challenge some of your previous thinking. That seems to
be the case for most people. But keep on, and you’ll soon see
how Mr. Wattles beautifully builds each chapter on what he pre-
sents in the preceding ones. I think you’ll find yourself saying —
as I and many others have — “Oh, now I see why he said that.
Now I see how it all fits together.”
“Some of what you”ll
I believe, also, that you’ll find it absolutely refreshing to know
read will most likely
that to get rich by the method outlined here, it is essential that
challenge some of your
you embrace and practice what we all know as the Golden Rule
previous thinking. But
... that the daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by
keep on ...”
which your wealth will come to you ... and that by accomplish-
ing your financial dreams through this method, everyone with
whom you come into contact will also have more.
A far cry from the dog-eat-dog, claw your way to the top,
anything for a buck mentality so many believe to be the only
way to wealth!
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You WILL see results!
You already have within you everything you need to turn your
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son, and even if you’ve failed before, and even if you think you’ve
Editor’s Note:
tried everything, open your mind to this book.
I’ve lightly edited the 90-
You’ve probably heard the saying, “When the student is ready,
something-year-old
the teacher appears.” That has certainly held true for me and
manuscript to
many, many others, and perhaps you’re ready, too — right now.
accommodate modern
If you’re not yet where you want to be in terms of income and
readers. Unfortunately,
your own personal success, the problem may not be what you’re
though, there is as yet
doing so much as how you’re doing it. And that begins with how
no graceful way in
you think.
English to avoid
If you want to change your life, you may just need to change
completely the use of
your mind!
the masculine gender to
represent all people,
Rebecca Fine
especially in working
Olympia, Washington, USA
with such an old book.
November, 1999
Luckily for us women,
we have vast experience
in reading ourselves
back in — just as we
have learned to dance
backward!
Where it does not
interfere with the
gracefulness of the
writing, I have changed
man to person, men to
people, mankind to
humankind, and have
made other similar
small changes.
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credit, although writing
just after the turn of the
20th century, he makes
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Author’s Preface
his book is pragmatical, not philosophical — a practical
“Failure is impossible.”
manual, not a treatise upon theories. It is intended for the
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.... men and women whose most pressing need is for money,
who wish to get rich first, and philosophize afterward. It is for
those who want results and who are willing to take the conclu-
sions of science as a basis for action, without going into all the
processes by which those conclusions were reached.
It is expected that the reader will take the fundamental state-
ments upon faith, just as he would take statements concerning a
law of electrical action if they were promulgated by a Marconi
or an Edison, and, taking the statements upon faith, that he will
prove their truth by acting upon them without fear or hesitation.
Every man or woman who does this will certainly get rich, for
the science herein applied is an exact science and failure is im-
possible.
In writing this book I have sacrificed all other considerations
to plainness and simplicity of style, so that all might understand.
The plan of action laid down herein was deduced from the con-
clusions of philosophy. It has been thoroughly tested, and bears
the supreme test of practical experiment: It works.
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Document Outline

• Table of Contents
• Author's Preface
• Chapter 1: The Right To Be Rich
• Chapter 2: There Is A Science of Getting Rich
• Chapter 3: Is Opportunity Monopolized?
• Chapter 4: The First Principle in
• Chapter 5: Increasing Life
• Chapter 6: How Riches Come To You
• Chapter 7: Gratitude
• Chapter 8: Thinking in The Certain Way
• Chapter 9: How To Use The Will
• Chapter 10: Further Use of The Will
• Chapter 11: Acting in The Certain Way
• Chapter 12: Efficient Action
• Chapter 13: Getting into The Right Business
• Chapter 14: The Impression of Increase
• Chapter 15: The Advancing Person
• Chapter 16: Some Cautions and
• Chapter 17: A Summary of
• Appendix A: How To Get More out of This Book
• Appendix B: Get This Life-Changing Book on Tapes or CDs!
• Appendix C: The Science of Getting Rich for
• Appendix D: Join The Science of Getting Rich Network
• Your Free Subscription to The Certain Way’ Ezine!

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