PERTINENT PAGES. FEARTHOUGHT. Fear is fear_thought_ only. Fear is caused by the _self-imposed_ or _self-permitted_ suggestion of _inferiority_. Fear is not a physical thing, but it causes physical derangement. Fearthought is _self-imposed_, and is therefore unnecessary. Fearthought, being evil and unnecessary, is therefore _not-respectable_. Fearthought is a habit which is altogether irrational and illogical. Fearthought is a parasite which, in civilized man, is entirely abnormal. _Fearthought can be eliminated from the mind._ * * * * * Fearthought is the tap-root of all evil and trouble. _Anger_ and _worry_ are expressions of fearthought. All forms of worry are directly caused by fearthought. Anger is directly or indirectly caused by fearthought. All of the evil passions which group themselves under the class-names of anger and worry are therefore the result of fearthought. Fearthought is the result of egotism. Egotism is the reverse, or, rather, perverse, of Egociation. It is caused by self-separation from Co-operative-Strength, from Universal-Good--from God. Selfishness is the fruit and the evidence of egotism. Fearthought is the first expression of selfishness. _Fearthought is_, therefore, _the tap-root of evil and consequent unhappiness_. * * * * * Forethought invites success. Fearthought invites failure. The future is the vital part of life--the dead past furnishing only food for reminiscence and experience. Consideration of the future must partake of either forethought or fearthought--it cannot partake of both at the same time. Fearthought is in no way related to forethought except as the shadow is related to the tree behind which it hides from the light--the light of right-thinking. Forethought stimulates, aids, fosters, encourages, and insures success of honest aims--its child is growth. Fearthought relaxes, hampers, strangles, and thereby retards growth, to the end of dwarfing, if not killing, it--its children are paralysis, disease, unhappiness and death. Forethought is a producer. _Fearthought is a robber._ * * * * * Forethought is constructive. Fearthought is destructive. Forethought suggests the building of houses for shelter wherein there can be no fearthought about storms. Fearthought fusses and worries over the possibility of not getting the shelter ready in time to protect against inclement weather, and thereby wastes the available energy, and delays the completion of the shelter. Forethought calmly proceeds to perform a useful task without fearthought of the extent of it. It does all that it can do--it can do no more. Fearthought wrings its hands, and wastes its time in saying, "How can I ever do it?" There is no difficulty in determining between forethought and fearthought. Whatever thought is constructive, is forethought. _Whatever thought is destructive or wasteful is fearthought._