Summary
In Chapter 3 – Wattles helps people who feel “Us” vs. “Them” phenomenon. He addresses the issue of people believing that others control all the wealth. Many times in my life I met people who believe for some strange reason that they are not allowed to do things. The one that always frightens me are people who say only “those kind of people” can be Doctors, as if they were given some special blessing that the rest of us don’ have.
Wattles addresses Us vs. Them and introduces the “The Law Of Wealth”. He passionately declares that The Law Of Wealth states that their is enough wealth and material goods so that every single person can have wealth and riches in abundance.
This is totally in keeping with modern economic thought. Our economy assumes that new wealth is created daily and that economy will keep growing. In personal terms, this means if I get wealthy, somebody else does not have to become poor. We both become wealthy when we create something new.
On a macro level – only when our economy goes into a recession or a depression is wealth destroyed. But don’t forget, even in the worst of the 1930′s depression, people made money and created wealth.
I got my first job in the early 1980′s recession and I had many job offers. While the economy as a whole shrinks – parts of it grow and those parts are the leading industries once the recession ends.
Here is a hint – if the economy are enters into a recession – find the parts of the economy that will be growth in two to three years. If you are part of it now, you will rise to the top when it ends.
[ZT - Wattles discusses the difference between union and management. And demonstrates that nobody is forced to be union.]
NO ONE IS KEPT POOR BECAUSE OTHER PEOPLE HAVE MONOPOLIZED THE WEALTH and have put a fence around it. You may be shut off from engaging in business in certain lines, but there are other channels open to you. At different periods the tide of opportunity sets in different directions, according to the needs of the whole and the particular stage of social evolution, which has been reached. There is abundance of opportunity for the person who will go with the tide, instead of trying to swim against it. So workers, either as individuals or as a class, are not deprived of opportunity. The workers are not being “kept down” by their masters; they are not being “ground” by the trusts and big business. As a class, they are where they are because they do not do things in a certain way. The working class may become the master class whenever they will begin to do things in a certain way.
[ZT Wattles introduces The Law Of Wealth]
The law of wealth is the same for them as it is for all others. This they must learn, and they will remain where they are as long as they continue to do as they do. The individual worker, however, is not held down by an entire class’s ignorance of these laws; he can follow the tide of opportunity to riches, and this book will tell him how. No one is kept in poverty by shortness in the supply of riches; there is more than enough for all. A palace as large as the capitol at Washington might be built for every family on earth from the building material in the United States alone, and under intensive cultivation this country would produce wool, cotton, linen, and silk enough to clothe each person in the world finer than Solomon was arrayed in all his glory, together with food enough to feed them all luxuriously.
The visible supply is practically inexhaustible, and the invisible supply really is inexhaustible. Everything you see on earth is made from one original substance, out of which all things proceed. New forms are constantly being made, and older ones are dissolving, but all are shapes assumed by one thing. There is no limit to the supply of formless stuff, or original substance. The universe is made out of it, but it was not all used in making the universe. The spaces in, through, and between the forms of the visible universe are permeated and filled with the original substance, with the formless stuff — with the raw material of all things. Ten thousand times as much as has been made might still be made, and even then we should not have exhausted the supply of universal raw material. No one, therefore, is poor because nature is poor or because there is not enough to go around.
Nature is an inexhaustible storehouse of riches; the supply will never run short. Original substance is alive with creative energy, and is constantly producing more forms. When the supply of building material is exhausted, more will be produced. When the soil is exhausted so that foodstuffs and materials for clothing will no longer grow upon it, it will be renewed or more soil will be made. When all the gold and silver has been dug from the earth, if humanity is still in such a stage of social development that it needs gold and silver, more will produced from the formless. The formless stuff responds to the needs of mankind; it will not let the world be without any good thing. This is true of man collectively.
[ZT - Wattles reinforces that their is a process and if you follow the process, you too can be wealthy.]
The race as a whole is always abundantly rich, and if individuals are poor it is because they do not follow the certain way of doing things that makes the individual rich. The formless stuff is intelligent; it is stuff which thinks. It is alive and is always impelled toward more life. It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more; it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression. The universe of forms has been made by formless living substance throwing itself into form in order to express itself more fully. The universe is a great living presence, always moving inherently toward more life and fuller functioning. Nature is formed for the advancement of life, and its impelling motive is the increase of life. Because of this, everything, which can possibly minister to life, is bountifully provided. There can be no lack unless God is to contradict himself and nullify his own works. You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches. It is a fact that I shall demonstrate a little farther on that even the resources of the formless supply are at the command of the man or woman who will act and think in a certain way.
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About The Science of Getting Rich – The Science Of Getting Rich was first published in 1910. The book became the inspiration for the DVD movie The Secret. Bob Proctor and Jack Canfield have created a program using the ideas called The Secret of Getting Rich. Sign up to get their free 7 lessons. Brian Tracy applies some of Wattles theories in his Maximum Achievement series which you should investigate. You can find some of Wattles ideas in my Success Through Balance articles.
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