Note: This is a little biography of Wallace D. Wattles, what happens is there's not much biography on the net about it. Wallace Wattles DeLois (1860 - 1911) was an American writer, and one of the best known exponents of New Thought . His most famous work is his 1910 book, The Science of Getting Rich , which explains how to overcome mental barriers and other constraints to, through the creation and not competition, to attract wealth.
Shortly after the death of Wallace Wattles, his life was described by his daughter Florence in a letter published in a magazine outreach of New Thought, The Nautilus Magazine, edited by Elizabeth Towne. The Nautilus published articles by Wattles in almost every edition, along which Towne also edited his books. Florence A. Wattles wrote that his father was born in the United States in 1860, received little formal education, and initially was excluded from the world of trade and the possibility of achieving economic independence.
According to the 1880 U.S. Federal Census Wallace lived with his parents on a farm in Nunda Township, McHenry County, Illinois, where he worked as a farmer. His father appears as a gardener and his mother and homemaker. Wallace was listed as born in Illinois and his parents in New York. Not recorded other family members.
Florence wrote that "he made much money, and had good health, except for their extreme fragility" in the three years prior to his death in 1911. His death at age 51, was considered "premature" for her daughter. During the past year not only published two books ("The Science of Feel Good" and "The Science of Getting Rico "), but also ran for public office.
Ora Ellen Cox, writing for" The Socialist Party in Indiana "in 1916, said Wattles lived in or near Kokomo, Indiana by the end of his life. His daughter identified the village where he lived as Elwood, Indiana.
In 1896 in Chicago, Illinois, Wattles attend "a convention of reformers he met George Davis Herron, a Congregational Church minister and professor of applied Christianity in Grinnell College who drew national attention by preaching a form of Christian Socialism.
After his meeting with Herron, Wattles became a social visionary and began to expose what Florence called "the wonderful social message of Jesus." According to Florence, he reached a certain position within the Methodist Church, which was removed for his "heresy." Two of his books (A New Christ and Jesus: The Man and His Work) analyzed the Christian Socialist perspective.
The election of 1908, was a candidate of the Socialist Party of America in the Eighth Congressional District in 1910 was presented as Socialist candidate for the office of the Prosecutor of Madison County, Indiana 50th. district. but did not win the election. Florence Wattles Socialist remained after the death of his father, and delegate to the National Socialist Party in 1912 and 1915. New Thought
As an inhabitant of the Midwest, Wattles traveled to Chicago, where he resided many representatives of New Thought, including Emma Curtis Hopkins and William Walker Atkinson, and shared his "Lessons from Saturday night in Indiana, but its first editor was Elizabeth Towne of Massachusetts.
studied the writings of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Ralph Waldo Emerson. and recommended the study of their books to readers who wanted to delve into what he called the theory "monistic cosmos."
Through personal study and experimentation have proclaimed Wattles discovered the truth of New Thought principles and put them into practice in your own life. He also defended the then-popular theories of health of "The Great Chewing" Horace Fletcher and the "Plan Without Breakfast" by Edward Hooker Dewey, which claimed to have applied in their own lives. He wrote books outlining these principles and practices, such as Health Through New Thought and Fasting and The Science of Being Great. His daughter Florence stated that he "lived every page of his books.
as practical author, Wattles suggested to his readers to test their theories themselves instead of taking his word as an authority and said that he had tested his methods on himself and others before publication.
Wattles practiced the technique of creative visualization. In the words of his daughter Florence, he "formed a mental picture" or visual image, and then "worked toward the realization of that vision,"
He wrote almost constantly. It was then that he formed his mental picture. He saw himself as a successful writer, a personality of power, a man advanced, and began to work towards achieving that vision. He lived every page ... His life was truly a powerful life.
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