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'''Wallace Delois Wattles''' (1860 – 1911) was an [[United States|American]] author. A pioneer success writer, he remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely popular in the [[New Thought]] and [[self-help]] movements. |
'''Wallace Delois Wattles''' (1860 – 1911) was an [[United States|American]] author. A pioneer success writer, he remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely popular in the [[New Thought]] and [[self-help]] movements. |
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Wattles' best known work is a 1910 book called ''The Science of Getting Rich'' in which he explained how to become wealthy. He claimed to have personally "tested" the principles he described and they apparently worked, for although he had lived most of his life in poverty, in his later years he was a prosperous man.{{Fact|date=May 2008}}<!--request citation for poverty followed by riches--> |
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Much that is known about Wattles' life comes from the text of a letter his daughter Florence wrote after his death to the [[New Thought]] author [[Elizabeth Towne]]. (Towne was the editor of the secular New Thought magazine [[The Nautilus (Magazine)|Nautilus]] and had published many articles by Wattles from the magazine's founding in 1898 until Wattles' death in 1911.) From Florence's letter, one learns that Wattles was born in the United States shortly before the [[American Civil War]], experienced much failure in his earlier years, and later in life began to study the various religious beliefs and philosophies of the world, including those of [[Descartes]], [[Spinoza]], [[Gottfried Leibniz]], [[Schopenhauer]], [[Hegel]], [[Swedenborg]], [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], and others.{{Fact|date=June 2008}} |
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According to the 1880 US Federal Census<ref>[http://www.mcigs.org/1880_FC_Index/1880FC_Wa-Wh.htm 1880 U.S. Census] - McHenry County, Illinois Genealogical Society</ref> Wallace was living with his parents on a farm in Nunda Township of McHenry County, Illinois and working as a farm laborer. His father is listed as a gardener with his mother 'keeping house'. Wallace is listed as being born in Illinois while his parents are listed as born in New York. No other siblings are recorded as living with the family. |
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The most direct influence on Wattles' thinking, outside of the books he read, came in 1896 in Chicago, when he attended "a convention of reformers" and met [[George Davis Herron]], a [[Congregational Church]] minister and professor of Applied Christianity at [[Grinnell College]] who was then attracting nationwide attention by preaching a form of [[Christian Socialism]]. Thereafter Wattles became a social visionary and began to expound upon what Florence called "the wonderful social message of Jesus." He at one time had held a position in the [[Methodist Church]], but, according to Florence, he was ejected for his "heresy".{{Fact|date=June 2008}} |
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Wattles was associated with the Chicago-based school of [[New Thought]] that centered around the teachings of [[Emma Curtis Hopkins]]. Through his personal study and experimentation he claimed to have discovered the truth of [[New Thought]] principles and put them into practice in his own life and wrote books outlining these principles.{{Fact|date=June 2008}} |
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Wattles practiced the technique of [[creative visualization]] and, as his daughter Florence related, ''"He wrote almost constantly. It was then that he formed his mental picture. He saw himself as a successful writer, a personality of power, an advancing man, and he began to work toward the realization of this vision. He lived every page ... His life was truly the powerful life."''{{Fact|date=June 2008}} |
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He had been in frail health for several years and was 51 years old when he died in 1911, about a year after publication of ''The Science of Getting Rich''.{{Fact|date=June 2008}} |
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==Bibliography== |
==Bibliography== |
Revision as of 05:00, 17 August 2008
Wallace Delois Wattles (1860 – 1911) was an American author. A pioneer success writer, he remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely popular in the New Thought and self-help movements.
Rhonda Byrne's daughter, Hailey, had given her mother a copy of the Wattles book to help her recover from her breakdown.[1]
Bibliography
- Health Through New Thought and Fasting
- Hellfire Harrison (his only novel)
- Making of the Man Who Can
- A New Christ
- The Science of Being Great
- The Science of Being Well
- The Science of Getting Rich (1910)
See also
Wallace D. Wattles. – via Wikisource.
References
- ^ The Secret life of Rhonda | Herald Sun at www.news.com.au
Further reading
- How to Master Abundance and Prosperity - Wallace Wattles - The Science of Getting Rich Decoded (An Executive Summary) ISBN 1-4257-1035-2