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From Pat Deveney's database:
Essence of Common Sense, The. The journal's policy, announced in its first issue, was "to keep within the limits of common sense in every department"-a claim perhaps cast in doubt by its emphasis on astrology and by an article by Alexander J. McIvor-Tyndall on "Prophecy and Prediction." The journal advocated a pure strain of New Thought: "If we are true to Nature and her principles, there can and will be no limit to our Health," and published a series of Common Sense Rules to enable the reader to be true to Nature: "To eat pure food in moderation; to be clean in living; to drink pure water in abundance, with regular bathing; and to have confidence, without fear, anger, malice, revenge, dishonesty, jealousy or strife, will bring about Health, Happiness and Prosperity." Poems by Grace M. Brown. As a premium, the journal offered its reprint of The Higher Socialism, book and a year's subscription for $1.00.
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| Essence of Common Sense V1 N1 August 1906 | |
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The Essence of Common Sense is a New Thought eclectic organized around the subconscious mind and its promised harvest of success, prosperity, and abundance. Its distinctive move is to fold the whole field of psychic phenomena into a single mental-science hypothesis, borrowing Thomson Jay Hudson's theory of telepathic communication to explain mediumship and seance-room marvels without leaving the mind. Around that spine it ranges freely — a zodiac read through the biblical patriarchs, a macrocosm-microcosm doctrine that makes man 'an epitome of the universe' — so that astrology and spiritualism enter only as tributaries to the mental gospel. Its talk of 'faculties' is philosophical, not phrenological. The paper is best read as practical New Thought with a psychical and cosmological fringe. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Astrology | New Thought | Socialism and Labor Reform |
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