As a Man Thinketh, by Allen

As a Man Thinketh is a 1903 self-help "book" (you can print it on eleven sheets of paper) that was part of what William James called "the mind-cure movement." It's an ancestor of The Secret . "The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears; ..." Why do these books on literally magical thinking get anything other than laughs? They encourage a…