Some of these visionaries, strangely enough, deal in the art of attracting earthly things. A good deal of New Thought and Christian Science is like the ostrich. It buries it head in the sand, holding the thought of prosperity the while, and refuses to see the slum in which God compels it to live. It becomes excited to the point of purple ecstasy with its vision of riches yet to come. But alas! When that vision fades down the years through the hard refusal of facts to accommodate themselves to our theories, bewilderment comes like a blasting wind, yet brings an aftermath of enlightenment to those who have been forced to think.
It seems to me that the average New Thoughtist wants to deal himself all the aces of life, leaving the poorer sort of cards for the lesser and unfortunate mortals.
-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 8 : Christian Science, Other Spiritual Movements > # 76
