Law Of Attraction

bundant? These are but a few of the ways in which the principle of social heredity might be used to advantage in business, Attract the children and you attract the parents! lf nations can build soldiers of war to order, by bending the minds of their young in the direction of war, business men can build customers to order through the same principle. . . . . . We come, now, to another important feature of this lesson through which we may see, from another angle, how power may be accumulated by cooperative, organized effort. 36 In the plan for the abolition of war, you observed how co-ordination of effort between three of the great organized powers of the world (the schools, churches and the public press) might serve to force universal peace. We learned many lessons of value from the world war, outrageous and destructive as it was, but none of greater importance than that of the effect of organized effort. You will recall that the tide of war began to break in favor of the allied armies just after all armed forces were placed under the direction of Foch, which wrought about complete coordination of effort in the allied ranks. Never before, in the history of the world, had so much power been concentrated in one group of men as that which was created through the organized effort of the allied armies. We come, now, to one of the most outstanding and significant facts that we found in the analysis of these allied armies, namely, that they were made up of the most cosmopolitan group of soldiers ever assembled on this earth. Catholics and Protestants, Jews and Gentiles, blacks and whites, yellows and tans, and every race on earth were represented in those armies. If they had any differences on account of race or creed, they laid them aside and subordinated them to the cause for which they were fighting. Under the stress of war, that great mass of humanity was reduced to a common level where they fought shoulder to shoulder, side by side, without asking any questions as to each others racial tendencies or religious beliefs. If they could lay aside intolerance long enough to fight for their lives over there, why can we not do the same while we fight for a higher standard of ethics in business and finance and industry over here? 37 Is it only when civilized people are fighting for their lives that they have the foresight to lay aside intolerance and co-operate in the furth