the Masters of our Fate, the Captains of our Souls. He should have told us, with great
emphasis, that this power makes no attempt to discriminate between destructive
thoughts and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality
thoughts of poverty, just as quickly as it will influence us to act upon thoughts of riches.
He should have told us, too, that our brains become magnetized with
the dominating thoughts which we hold in our minds, and, by means with which
no man is familiar, these "magnets" attract to us the forces, the people, the
circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
He should have told us, that before we can accumulate riches in great
abundance, we must magnetize our minds with intense DESIRE for riches, that we
must become "money conscious until the DESIRE for money drives us to create
definite plans for acquiring it.
But, being a poet, and not a philosopher, Henley contented himself by stating a
great truth in poetic form, leaving those who followed him to interpret the philosophical
meaning of his lines.
Little by little, the truth has unfolded itself, until it now appears certain that
the principles described in this book, hold the secret of mastery over our economic fate.