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Thoughts Are Things
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Prentice Mulford's Thoughts Are Things, published in 1889, is a primary text of the early New Thought movement. Its strength is that it is the original source articulating the idea that thought acts causally on circumstance, the core New Thought doctrine that later popular self-help and prosperity literature draws on. Its limit is that it is a primary movement text presenting Mulford's own claims, not an independently verified account of whether or how thought actually affects outcomes.
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AuthorPrentice Mulford
PublisherF. J. Needham
New York, 1889 first edition, essays selected from the White Cross Library. Publication Year1889
Source Typeprimary-text
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Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2: an early primary text of its movement, the original articulation of its core doctrine rather than an independently verified account of whether it holds. NotesPrimary source for the New Thought formulation that thought acts causally on circumstance.
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