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Prentice Mulford (1834–1891) wrote humorous pieces for various journals in California before he helped found the New Thought movement. Mulford was also an avid prospector for many years, jumping claims all over California in his search for gold. Much of his writing career focused on the unimportance of money and material things. He often wrote that those who suffered from lack of money were forced to become more intelligent that those that had it: “Poverty argued for us [in] possession of more brains”²⁹ Mulford played a fairly large role at the beginning of the New Thought Movement with the publication of his popular book, Thoughts Are Things. The writing in this book offers New Thought ideals combined with humor.

The surest way for a young woman to become ugly is to be discontented, peevish, cross, complaining and envious of others. Because in these states of mind she is drawing to her the invisible substance of thought, which acts on and injures her body. It ruins the complexion, makes lines and creases in the face, sharpens the nose and transforms the face of youth into that of the shrew in very quick time.

The more you get into the thought current coming from the Infinite Mind, making yourself more and more a part of that mind (exactly as you may become a part of any vein of low, morbid, unhealthy mind in opening yourself to that current), the quicker are you freshened, and renewed physically and mentally. You become continually a newer being. Changes for the better come quicker and quicker. Your power increases to bring results. You lose gradually all fear as it is proven more and more to you that when you are in the thought current of Infinite Good there is nothing to fear. You realize more and more clearly that there is a great power and force which cares for you. You are wonderstruck at the fact that when your mind is set in the right direction all material things come to you with very little physical or external effort. You wonder then at man’s toiling and striving, fagging himself literally to death, when through such excess of effort he actually drives from him the rounded-out good of health, happiness and material prosperity all combined.³⁰