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Is Opportunity Monopolized?
NO ONE IS KEPT POOR BECAUSE OTHER PEOPLE HAVE MONOPOLIZED THE WEALTH and have put a fence
around it. You may be shut off from engaging in business in certain lines, but there are other channels
open to you.
At different periods the tide of opportunity sets in different directions, according to the needs of
the whole and the particular stage of social evolution which has been reached. There is abundance of
opportunity for the person who will go with the tide, instead of trying to swim against it.
So workers, either as individuals or as a class, are not deprived of opportunity. The workers are not
being “kept down” by their masters; they are not being “ground” by the trusts and big business. As a
class, they are where they are because they do not do things in a certain way.
The working class may become the master class whenever they will begin to do things in a certain
way. The law of wealth is the same for them as it is for all others. This they must learn, and they will
remain where they are as long as they continue to do as they do. The individual worker, however, is not
held down by an entire class’s ignorance of these laws; he can follow the tide of opportunity to riches,
and this book will tell him how.
No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches; there is more than enough for all.
A palace as large as the capitol at Washington might be built for every family on earth from the building
material in the United States alone, and under intensive cultivation this country would produce wool,
cotton, linen, and silk enough to clothe each person in the world finer than Solomon was arrayed in all
his glory, together with food enough to feed them all luxuriously.
The visible supply is practically inexhaustible, and the invisible supply really is inexhaustible.
Everything you see on earth is made from one original substance, out of which all things proceed. New
forms are constantly being made, and older ones are dissolving, but all are shapes assumed by one thing.
There is no limit to the supply of formless stuff, or original substance. The universe is made out of
it, but it was not all used in making the universe. The spaces in, through, and between the forms of the
visible universe are permeated and filled with the original substance, with the formless stuff — with the
raw material of all things. Ten thousand times as much as has been made might still be made, and even
then we should not have exhausted the supply of universal raw material.
No one, therefore, is poor because nature is poor or because there is not enough to go around.
Nature is an inexhaustible storehouse of riches; the supply will never run short. Original substance
is alive with creative energy, and is constantly producing more forms. When the supply of building
material is exhausted, more will be produced. When the soil is exhausted so that food stuffs and materials
for clothing will no longer grow upon it, it will be renewed or more soil will be made. When all the gold
and silver has been dug from the earth, if humanity is still in such a stage of social development that it
needs gold and silver, more will produced from the formless. The formless stuff responds to the needs of
mankind; it will not let the world be without any good thing.
This is true of man collectively. The race as a whole is always abundantly rich, and if individuals are
poor it is because they do not follow the certain way of doing things which makes the individual rich.
The formless stuff is intelligent; it is stuff which thinks. It is alive and is always impelled toward
more life.
It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more; it is the nature of intelligence to
enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression. The
universe of forms has been made by formless living substance throwing itself into form in order to
express itself more fully.
The universe is a great living presence, always moving inherently toward more life and fuller
functioning.
Nature is formed for the advancement of life, and its impelling motive is the increase of life.
Because of this, everything which can possibly minister to life is bountifully provided. There can be no
lack unless God is to contradict himself and nullify his own works.
You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches. It is a fact which I shall demonstrate a little
farther on that even the resources of the formless supply are at the command of the man or woman who
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