The Heart of the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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The Heart of the New Thought is a book by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, first published in 1902. In a compact, plain-spoken style Wilcox sets out the essentials of the New Thought movement: the centrality of right thinking, the practical power of optimism, and the idea that our inner mental life shapes health, happiness and destiny. The book is arranged as short essays and aphorisms (chapters such as “Common Sense,” “Wisdom,” “Self-Conquest,” and “Destiny”), making it easy for readers to return to particular ideas about thought power, positive thinking, and personal responsibility. Wilcox approaches New Thought with the confidence of a seasoned writer and a wary eye toward simple-minded optimism — she insists that thought must be disciplined, not merely sentimental. The result reads like early self-help written from a traditional moral outlook: it blends practical advice on mindset and self-control with spiritual reflections that influenced later positive-thinking and New Age authors. For readers interested in historical self-help, the law-of-attraction tradition, or turn-of-the-century metaphysical writing, this short volume remains a useful, readable introduction to the movement’s core claims.

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