Think and Grow Rich!

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Realizing as I did Hill was born October 26, 1883, in a two-room log cabin in the mountains of Wise County, Virginia. It was a region marked by illiteracy, grinding poverty, and superstition. Its people led a hardscrabble existence, struggling to eke out a living by farming on difficult soils and challenging terrain. Most people born here lived their entire lives without ever leaving the mountains. Hill was one of the few who escaped and goon to travel the nation and live in some of its great cities.
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He smiled broadly This is a mystical moment in the story of Think
and Grow Rich! As usual when he delves into metaphysical matters,
Hill grasps for appropriate words to describe that which, in the end,
cannot be described. It is interesting to note that Thomas Edison once answered a question about his religious beliefs during an interview by discussing life forces in terms remarkably similar to those Hill uses here. The published interview was quite controversial, and it is unclear how literally Edison meant his remarks to betaken. Presumably, Hill

had either read the interview or else heard Edison describe the same ideas during one of his own interviews with the inventor. (Fora further discussion of the incident, see Robert Conot, A Streak of Luck,
Seaviews Books, New York, 1979, page 427, or Wyn Wachhorst,
Thomas Alva Edison An American Myth, MIT Press, Cambridge,
Mass., 1981, pages 137-138.)
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in physical bodies. In the original version of the book, this chapter ends with the following paragraph:
The Ghost of the Fear of Poverty, which seized the
minds of millions of people in 1929, was so real that it
caused the worst business depression this country has ever
known. Moreover, this particular ghost still frightens some of
us out of our wits.
Epilogue HOW TO OUTWIT THE SIX GHOSTS OF FEAR
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