As a Man Thinketh (version 3)

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <br/><br/> <h1> AS A MAN THINKETH </h1> <br/> <h3> BY </h3> <h2> JAMES ALLEN </h2> <br/> <h4> Author of "From Passion to Peace" </h4> <br/><br/> <p class="poem"> <i>Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,<br/> And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes<br/> The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,<br/> Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:&mdash;<br/> He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:<br/> Environment is but his looking-glass.</i><br/></p> <br/><br/> <h4> Authorized Edition <br/><br/> New York </h4> <br/><br/><br/> <h2> CONTENTS </h2> <h4> <SPAN href="#thought">THOUGHT AND CHARACTER</SPAN> <br/> <SPAN href="#circumstances">EFFECT OF THOUGHT ON CIRCUMSTANCES</SPAN> <br/> <SPAN href="#health">EFFECT OF THOUGHT ON HEALTH AND THE BODY</SPAN> <br/> <SPAN href="#purpose">THOUGHT AND PURPOSE</SPAN> <br/> <SPAN href="#achievement">THE THOUGHT-FACTOR IN ACHIEVEMENT</SPAN> <br/> <SPAN href="#visions">VISIONS AND IDEALS</SPAN> <br/> <SPAN href="#serenity">SERENITY</SPAN> </h4> <br/><br/><br/> <h3> FOREWORD </h3> <p>THIS little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the truth that&mdash;</p> <p>"They themselves are makers of themselves."</p> <p>by virtue of the thoughts, which they choose and encourage; that mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness.</p> <p>JAMES ALLEN. <br/> BROAD PARK AVENUE, <br/> ILFRACOMBE, <br/> ENGLAND</p> <br/><br/><br/> <SPAN name="thought"></SPAN> <h2> AS A MAN THINKETH </h2> <br/><br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />