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Today's talk was edited and adapted from The Eight Pillars of Prosperity by James Allen, published in 1911.

Human society is held together by its sincerity.

A universal falseness would beget a universal mistrust,

which in turn would bring about a universal separation, if not destruction.

Life is made sane, wholesome, and happy by our deep-rooted belief in one another.

It is easy for the insincere to imagine that everybody is like themselves, and to speak

of the rottenness of society.

People who cannot see anything good in the constitution of human society should overhaul

themselves. Their trouble is near home. They call good evil.

They have dwelt cynically and peevishly on evil, till they cannot see good, and everything

and everybody appears evil. Society is rotten from top to bottom, I heard a man say recently,

and he asked me if I did not think so too.

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