Good society is made up of good individuals; individuals are measured by their qualities of mind and character; and mind and character are pure and good according as their constituent elements are pure and good. Fearthought is a weak element of mind and its influence on character is blighting. In chemistry and in mechanics we analyse and test with greatest care the material we use, to learn its value as related to our purpose. If it have any element of weakness we discard it. Measure, and weigh well, thought about the future; if it partake of fearthought, expel it from the mind, for it is evil; if it be filled with strength, and hope, and confidence, nurse it tenderly, for it is good. _Harmony is strength._ * * * * * Forethought is strong thought. Fearthought is weak thought. Nervousness is frequently discreditable, and, therefore, not-respectable. Nervousness is the "scapegoat" for much cowardice, ignorance and perversion, sometimes of prenatal, but generally of post-natal, origin. It is not as respectable as scrofula, for the reason that scrofula may have been inherited or contracted by the accident or evil doing of another, and can be corrected only by process of regeneration; while nervousness is an expression or reflection of fearthought which can be corrected by one's own right-thinking. Whoever is not nervous when he is asleep _need not be_ nervous when he is awake. Eminent physicians have recently authorized the above assertions relative to nervousness. If it is evil and unnecessary, it is, therefore, not-respectable. _When nervous, seek within the habit-of-thought for a cause._ * * * * * Attraction rules the universe. The rivalry between attraction and counter-attraction is friendly. Evolution is the result of being attracted to increase and to growth, and not the result of being _pushed_ to growth. All plant life inclines towards the light and the sun. Plant life that is strong enough to withstand the storms, turns its back in protest to the wind. Pessimists snarlingly assert that attraction is the _pushing of desire_ for change, but pessimists are diseased themselves, and therefore call things by wrong names, and give the wrong construction to everything. Appreciation and resultant Love are caused by attraction, and not by fear. Whatever is attracted forward or upward, will remain in advance or above. Forethought is eagerly receptive and seeks progress through attraction. Fearthought _pushes_ to action by its own cowardice, and accomplishes nothing useful. _Altruism is a powerful magnet; good men are "as true as steel."_ * * * * * Consideration is practical altruism. Consideration for others is evidenced by desiring to do for them what is most desired by them, or, what is best for them. It _assumes_ no superiority.