Law Of Attraction
In one of the cities on the coast of California all of the land that was
suitable for building lots had been developed and put into use. On
one side of the city there were some steep hills that could not be
used for building purposes, and on the other side the land was
unsuitable for buildings because it was so low that the back-water
covered it once a day.
A man of imagination came to this city. Men of imagination usually have keen minds, and this man was no exception. The first day of his arrival he saw the possibilities for making money out of real estate. He secured an option on those hills that were unsuitable for use because of their steepness. He also secured an option on the ground that was unsuitable for use because of the back-water that covered it daily.
He secured these options at a very low price because the ground was supposed to be without substantial value. With the use of a few tons of explosives he turned those steep hills into loose dirt. With the aid of a few tractors and some road scrapers he leveled the ground down and turned it into beautiful building lots, and with the aid of a few mules and carts he dumped the surplus dirt on the low ground and raised it above the water level, thereby turning it into beautiful building lots. He made a substantial fortune, for what?
For removing some dirt from where it was not needed to
where it was needed! For mixing some useless dirt with imagination! The
people of that little city gave this man credit for being a genius; and he
was-the same sort of genius that any one of them could have been had he used
his imagination as this man used his. In the field of chemistry it is
possible to mix two or more chemical ingredients in such proportions that
the mere act of mixing gives each of the ingredients a tremendous amount of
energy that it did not possess.
It is also possible to mix certain chemical ingredients in such proportions that all the ingredients of the combination take on an entirely different nature, as in the case of H2 O, which is a mixture of two parts, hydrogen and one part oxygen, creating water. Chemistry is not the only field in which a combination of various physical materials can be so assembled that each takes on a greater value, or the result is a product entirely foreign in nature to that of its component parts.