* * * * * Fearthought is the devil. Fearthought is the arch-enemy of man, whose influence can be traced in every form of calamity and unhappiness. Fearthought is the cause of indecision, suspicion, apprehension, jealousy, envy, indifference, self-degradation and all other forms of weakness which separate the afflicted from the tide of success and happiness, and which condemn them to the whirling and restless eddy of isolation and non-progression. Fearthought is blasphemy, because it gives the lie to the fixed promises of God, as evidenced by experience. Fearthought is like carbonic-acid gas pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death--death to energy, death to tissue and death to all growth. _Fearthought is a liar, and the father of lies._ * * * * * Quarantine against Fearthought first. Fearthought is more contagious than any other disease. Fearthought is the chief distributer and promoter of other contagious diseases. Fearthought can be guarded against by anti-toxic means, just as smallpox and diphtheria can be guarded against. The serum to be used against fearthought is intelligent, persistent right suggestion. Fearthought can also be quarantined against, the same as other contagious diseases. Society can quarantine against fearthought by refusing to tolerate it as a necessity of civilized life--by classing it as not-respectable, and by refusing to feed it with sympathy. Quarantine against fearthought in the individual is an easy matter to any one who will learn that it is only evil and never good. _Fearthought should be kept "without the gates."_ * * * * * Forethought for others is the most intelligent altruism. Forethought is the natural condition, but can exist only in the absence of fearthought. Forethought growing out of disagreeable or disastrous experience is a useful and worthy fruit; but fearthought taken from the same experience adds to the evil. If a child be guarded against fearthought, he will enjoy immunity from it during life--a life twice or thrice prolonged in consequence. Parents should note the responsibility. * * * * * The consensus of the experience of parents, of physicians, of biologists, and of everyone who has observed child-life, is that the premises and deductions here given are correct, but as yet there has been no systematic effort made to eliminate fearthought out of the atmosphere of children, as there has been to eliminate weeds, malaria, contagious diseases, and other evils. Society should unite for defense against, and the extermination of, _childhood's worst enemy_. * * * * * Fearthought is the most pregnant cause of disaster and death. Whoever teaches fearthought to a child, by either legend or example, may be a murderer by so doing.