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You can build a fortune through the aid of laws which are immutable. But, first,
you must become familiar with these laws, and learn to USE them. Through rep-
etition, and by approaching the description of these principles from every con-
ceivable angle, the author hopes to reveal to you the secret through which every
great fortune has been accumulated. Strange and paradoxical as it may seem, the
"secret" is NOT A SECRET. Nature, herself, advertises it in the earth on which we
live, the stars, the planets suspended within our view, in the elements above and
around us, in every blade of grass, and every form of life within our vision.

Nature advertises this "secret" in the terms of biology, in the conversion of a tiny
cell, so small that it may be lost on the point of a pin, into the HUMAN BEING
now reading this line. The conversion of desire into its physical equivalent is, cer-
tainly, no more miraculous!

Do not become discouraged if you do not fully comprehend all that has been stat-
ed. Unless you have long been a student of the mind, it is not to be expected that
you will assimilate all that is in this chapter upon a first reading.

But you will, in time, make good progress. The principles which follow will open
the way for understanding of imagination. Assimilate that which you understand,
as you read this philosophy for the first time, then, when you reread and study
it, you will discover that something has happened to clarify it, and give you a
broader understanding of the whole. Above all, DO NOT STOP, nor hesitate in
your study of these principles until you have read the book at least THREE times,
for then, you will not want to stop.

HOW TO MAKE PRACTICAL USE OF IMAGINATION

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. Ideas are products of the imagina-
tion. Let us examine a few well known ideas which have yielded huge fortunes,
with the hope that these illustrations will convey definite information concerning
the method by which imagination may be used in accumulating riches.

THE ENCHANTED KETTLE

Fifty years ago, an old country doctor drove to town, hitched his horse, quietly
slipped into a drug store by the back door, and began "dickering" with the young
drug clerk. His mission was destined to yield great wealth to many people. It was
destined to bring to the South the most far-flung benefit since the Civil War.

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