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An Iron Will

by Marden Orison Swett

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One of the representatives of the New Thought Movement was an American author Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924). He was not only a writer but also a doctor and a prosperous hotel owner. When being a student, he worked in a hotel and then purchased several hotels and a resort. He had some financial problems and had to give up this job. In 1893 he started working again and gained a position of a hotel manager in Chicago. It was at the time when many tourists from all over the world used to come to Chicago to see the World's Columbian Exposition. At that period of time he started to note his philosophical ideas as he wanted to inspire others like Samuel Smile gave inspiration to him. In 1894 Pushing to the Front, Marden's first novel appeared. His next several books were devoted to the questions of success, will-power and positive thinking. In 1897 Swett Marden started Success Magazine and for the next 23 years he wrote regularly for Elizabeth Towne's New Thought magazine Nautilus.

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...solidity, decision, confidence and power, determination, vigor and individuality, in theround, ringing tone which characterizes its delivery. It talks to you oftriumph over difficulties, of victory in the face of discouragement, ofwill to promise and strength to perform, of lofty and daring enterprise, of unfettered aspirations, and of the thousand and one solid impulses bywhich man masters impediments in the way of progression. "As one has well said: "He who is silent is forgotten; he who does notadvance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed; hewho ceases to become greater, becomes smaller; he who leaves off givesup; the stationary is the beginning of the end--it precedes death; tolive is to achieve, to will without ceasing. " Be thou a hero; let thy might Tramp on eternal snows its way, And through the ebon walls of night, Hew down a passage unto day. _Park Benjamin_. CHAPTER II. THE RULERS OF DESTINY. There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent, or...