
The Science of Prosperity
Classic Writings on Wealth, Self-Mastery, Ethical Ambition, and the Many Meanings of SuccessBy Wallace D. Wattles, William Walker Atkinson, P. T. Barnum, Benjamin Franklin, Orison Swett Marden, James Allen, Russell Conwell, Henry Harrison Brown, Thorstein Veblen, Émile Coué, Kahlil Gibran, Marcus Aurelius, Niccolò Machiavelli, Lao TzuLength104h 57m
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The Science of Prosperity assembles a wide-ranging archive of reflection on wealth, ambition, self-mastery, persuasion, and social order. Moving among aphorism, philosophical meditation, practical exhortation, entrepreneurial counsel, and cultural critique, it places optimistic doctrines of achievement beside more skeptical examinations of status and consumption. Classical wisdom, Renaissance statecraft, American self-help, and early twentieth-century theories of mind converge in a collection whose tensions are as instructive as its affirmations. Its contributors span centuries, languages, and intellectual traditions: Stoic ethics, Daoist restraint, civic republicanism, commercial folklore, New Thought, and critiques of conspicuous consumption. Rather than presenting prosperity as a single economic outcome, these voices frame it variously as disciplined character, imaginative confidence, public influence, spiritual equilibrium, or a condition compromised by social display. Their juxtaposition illuminates the historical emergence of modern success literature while preserving the philosophical questions that such literature often inherits. Recommended for students and general readers of intellectual history, business culture, and self-improvement, this volume offers an unusually rich comparative encounter. Readers can trace recurring ideals of labor, desire, leadership, and contentment across sharply different styles and assumptions. Its educational value lies not merely in practical advice, but in the dialogue it creates between competing visions of what it means to flourish.
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GenreSelf-Help, Literary Classics
Length104 hrs 57 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 10, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Achieving Prosperity - Ultimate Collection
2Wallace D. Wattles
3Preface
4Chapter 1: The Right To Be Rich
5Chapter 2: There is A Science of Getting Rich
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6Chapter 3: Is Opportunity Monopolized?
7Chapter 4: The First Principle in The Science of Getting Rich
8Chapter 5: Increasing Life
9Chapter 6: How Riches Come to You
10Chapter 7: Gratitude
11Chapter 8: Thinking in the Certain Way
12Chapter 9: How to Use the Will
13Chapter 10: Further Use of the Will
14Chapter 11: Acting in the Certain Way
15Chapter 12: Efficient Action
16Chapter 13: Getting into the Right Business
17Chapter 14: The Impression of Increase
18Chapter 15: The Advancing Man
19Chapter 16: Some Cautions, and Concluding Observations
20Chapter 17: Summary of the Science of Getting Rich
21Preface
22Chapter I. The Principle of Health
23Chapter II. The Foundations of Faith
24Chapter III. Life and Its Organisms
25Chapter IV. What to Think
26Chapter V. Faith
27Chapter VI. Use of the Will
28Chapter VII. Health from God
29Chapter VIII. Summary of the Mental Actions
30Chapter IX. When to Eat
31Chapter X. What To Eat
32Chapter XI. How to Eat
33Chapter XII. Hunger and Appetites
34Chapter XIII. In a Nutshell
35Chapter XIV. Breathing
36Chapter XV. Sleep
37Chapter XVI. Supplementary Instructions
38Chapter XVII. A Summary of the Science Of Being Well
39How to Get What You Want
40Chapter 1
41Chapter 2
42Chapter 3
43Chapter 4
44Chapter 5
45William Walker Atkinson
46The Secret of Success
47The Individual
48Spiritedness
49Latent Powers
50Soul-Force