Copyright 1922 by Charles F. Haanel. All Rights Reserved.
Man is Mind, and evermore he takes the tool of thought, and, shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand ills. He thinks in secret and it comes to pass. Environment is but his looking-glass. — James Allen.
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He thinks in secret and it comes to pass. Environment is but his looking-glass.
First Printing December, 1922. Second Printing January, 1923. Third Printing May, 1923.
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation.
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Chapter Essence
The front matter introduces Mental Chemistry by Charles F. Haanel, author of The Master Key System, published in Saint Louis in 1922. It sets the book's governing premise through James Allen's verse. that man is mind and thought is the creative tool by which he shapes his world. and lays out a table of contents that carries the reader from chemistry, the laboratory, and biology upward through medicine and psychology into metaphysics, philosophy, and religion.
Key Takeaways
The work is authored by Charles F. Haanel, already known for The Master Key System, establishing continuity of method and authority.
The epigraph from James Allen frames the central law of the book: thought is a creative force and environment merely its reflection.
The contents chart a deliberate ascent from the physical sciences to the spiritual, treating religion as the culmination rather than the opposite of scientific inquiry.
