Self Help
The purpose of these Fifteen Laws is to develop or help
you organize all the knowledge you have, and all you acquire in the future, so you
may turn this knowledge into POWER.
You should read the Law of Success course with a note-book by your
side, for you will observe that ideas will begin to "flash" into your mind
as you read, as to ways and means of using these laws in advancing
your own interests.
You should also begin teaching these laws to those in whom you are most interested, as it is a well known fact that the more one tries to teach a subject the more he learns about that subject. A man who has a family of young boys and girls may so indelibly fix these Fifteen Laws of Success in their minds that this teaching will change the entire course of their lives.
The man with a family should interest his wife in studying this course with him, for reasons which will be plain before you complete reading this Introduction.
POWER is one of the three basic objects of human endeavor. POWER is of two classes-that which is developed through coordination of natural physical laws, and that which is developed by organizing and classifying KNOWLEDGE.
POWER growing out of organized knowledge is the more important because it places in man's possession a tool with which he may transform, redirect and to some extent harness and use the other form of power. The object of this reading course is to mark the route by which the student may safely travel in gathering such facts as he may wish to weave into his fabric of KNOWLEDGE.
There are two major methods of gathering knowledge, namely, by studying, classifying and assimilating facts which have been organized by other people, and through one's own process of gathering, organizing and classifying facts, generally called "personal experience."
This lesson deals mainly with the ways and means of studying the facts and data gathered and classified by other people. The state of advancement known as "civilization" is but the measure of knowledge, which the race has accumulated. This knowledge is of two classes - mental and physical.
Among the useful knowledge organized by man, he has discovered and catalogued the eighty-odd physical elements of which all material forms in the universe consist. By study and analysis and accurate measurements man has discovered the "bigness" of the material side of the universe as represented by planets, suns and stars, some of which are known to be over ten million times as large as the little earth on which he lives.