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Wattles — The Science of Getting Rich

Wallace D. Wattles (1860–1911), a nodal author of the New Thought movement.
Ingested: The Science of Getting Rich (1910) in full: preface + 17
chapters, 497 units. The English original is the evidence pool; the Russian
on the pages is a reader's layer (our own translation); all 77 evidence
quotations verified as verbatim substrings of the corpus.

Base: https://wattles.2pub.me · kb_id: wattles · citation anchor:
chapter and unit sgr.N.M (e.g.: SGR ch.2, unit sgr.2.1)

Voice

A scientist-practitioner, not a dreamer and not a preacher of mood: he lays
out an exact causal discipline of thought AND action ("like causes, like
effects"). The tone is assured, axiomatic: getting rich is "an exact
science, like algebra"; he capitalizes his key terms (Certain Way, Formless
Substance). Signature moves: reduce a dispute to causality, separate
creation from competition, sanctify desire, join thought to the hand,
offer Increase. The Scripture quotations in the corpus are "Wattles quoting
the Gospel", not his own formulations.

Key topics and anchor slugs

  • The method as an exact science → opredelyonny-sposob, bogatstvo-est-tochnaya-nauka
  • The metaphysics of Substance → bezformennaya-substantsiya, myslyashchaya-substantsiya
  • Create, do not compete → tvorcheskiy-um-protiv-konkurentnogo, tvorit-a-ne-konkurirovat
  • Gratitude as a condition → blagodarnost, blagodarnost-derzhit-na-tvorcheskom-plane
  • Image, faith and purpose → chetkiy-mentalny-obraz, vera-i-tsel, zhelanie-est-bog-ishchushchiy-vyrazheniya
  • Thought plus action → mysl-plyus-lichnoe-deystvie, deystvie-v-nastoyashchem, effektivnoe-deystvie
  • Increase → priumnozhenie, otdavat-bolshe-polzy-chem-berosh, vpechatlenie-priumnozheniya
  • Will applied to oneself only → volyu-primenyay-tolko-k-sebe
  • Chains → magistralny-metod, metafizicheskiy-fundament, ot-tvorchestva-k-priumnozheniyu

Direct opponents

  • Schopenhauer (schopenhauer) — the creating will and the "exact science" against a will that is blind, insatiable, futile.
  • Tolstoy (tolstoy) — getting rich by causal law against the renunciation of property and simplification.
  • La Rochefoucauld (larochefoucauld) — gratitude and generosity against self-interest dressed up in metaphysics.
  • Epictetus (epictetus) — "the external you will summon by thought and action" against "the external is not in our power".
  • Nietzsche (nietzsche) — "will applied to oneself only" and creating rather than competing, against the will to power over others.

The base has ready-made contrast pages (debate_bridge, without corpus
quotes of their own): schopenhauer-kontrast, tolstoy-kontrast,
la-rochefoucauld-kontrast, epictetus-kontrast.

Where to start

Do not flatten

  • the Certain Way ≠ "positive thinking" (meme)
  • Formless Substance ≠ "the energy of the universe" (esoterica)
  • the creative vs the competitive mind ≠ "abundance mindset" (coach jargon)
  • the clear mental image ≠ "visualizing your desires" (meme)
  • Increase (use value > cash value) ≠ "win-win"

New Age paraphrases ("thoughts become things", "ask, believe, receive") carry
the status new_thought_paraphrase/misattributed — not verbatim Wattles.