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Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Secret of the Ages by Robert Collier, published in 1926.

First came the Stone Age, when life was for the strong of arm and the fleet of foot.

Then there was the Iron Age, and while life was more precious,

still the strong lorded it over the weak.

Later came the Golden Age, and riches took the place of strength,

but the poor found little choice between the slave driver's whips

of olden days and the grim weapons of poverty and starvation. Now we are entering a new age,

the mental age, when every person can be their own master, when poverty and circumstance

no longer hold power, and the lowliest individual in the land can win a place side by side

with the highest. To those who do not know the resources of mind, these will sound like outlandish statements.

But science proves beyond question that in the well springs of every person's mind are unplumbed depths,

undiscovered deposits of energy, wisdom, and ability.

Sound these depths, bring these treasures to the surface,

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