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Title: Fundamentals of Prosperity
What They Are and Whence They Come

Author: Roger W. Babson

Release Date: May 16, 2007 [EBook #21502]

Language: English

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Fundamentals of Prosperity

What They Are and
Whence They Come

By

ROGER W. BABSON

_President Babson Statistical Organization_

NEW YORK CHICAGO

Fleming H. Revell Company

LONDON AND EDINBURGH

Copyright, 1920, by
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

New York: 158 Fifth Avenue
Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave.
London: 21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street

Contents

FOREWORD
I. HONESTY OR STEEL DOORS?
II. FAITH THE SEARCHLIGHT OF BUSINESS
III. INDUSTRY VS. OPPORTUNITY
IV. COOePERATION--SUCCESS BY HELPING THE OTHER FELLOW
V. OUR REAL RESOURCES
VI. STUDY THE HUMAN SOUL
VII. BOOST THE OTHER FELLOW
VIII. WHAT TRULY COUNTS
IX. WHAT FIGURES SHOW
X. WHERE THE CHURCH FALLS DOWN
XI. THE FUTURE CHURCH

Foreword

Some two thousand years ago the greatest teacher who ever walked the
earth advised the people of Judea not to build their houses on the sand.
What he had in mind was that they were looking too much to the structure
above ground, and too little to the spiritual forces which must be the
foundation of any structure which is to stand. Following the war we
enjoyed the greatest prosperity this country has ever witnessed;--the
greatest activity, the greatest bank clearings, the greatest foreign
trade, the greate