Think and Grow Rich online for free - and a little bit about Solomon's Treasure

[tracyrtwyman]

Hi All,

I just wanted to let you guys know that Napolean Hill's classic Think and Grow Rich is now available at sacred-texts.com for free: [LINK]

Of course, it's always better to have the book, but this will tide you over until you get around to buying it.

BTW, I am the author of a non-fiction book called Solomon's Treasure: The Magic and Mystery of America's Money. The upshot of the book is that money has a sacred origin, and that modern fiat currency is based upon the magical principles of alchemy. It's mainly a book about history, economics, and the occult, not a self-help book about how to get rich. However, I am currently working to adapt it to a self-help format, and creating a speaking presentation to go with it. I think this would be valuable to people.

At any rate, for the curious, here is a link to an article I wrote based on the concepts behind Solomon's Treasure: [LINK]

And here is a link to an interview I did about Solomon's Treasure *(actually a pre-interview before my appearance on Coast to Coast A.M. with Ian Punnett):[LINK]

Finally, here's a link to a page where you can buy Solomon's Treasure directly from me, with an autograph if you like, at a discounted price for Christmas: [LINK]

Or, if you prefer, here's where you can buy Solomon's Treasure on amazon: [LINK]

Also of possible interest to the Pavlina crowd, my biography of economist Thorstein Veblen: [LINK]

His life, like that of so many intellectuals, was sad and uninspiring, but his ideas were very interesting.

Best wishes to all,

Tracy R. Twyman

[stephencp]

How is it that Think and Grow Rich is in the public domain given that it's copyright is 1937 (and that 1923 if often the milestone public domain stuff).

Stephen
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[tracyrtwyman]

You can get away with it if the author's dead and doesn't have any family asserting their ownership of the copyright. I don't know the status of this particular author's estate. But I imagine that, if he has any heirs, they're probably all so rich right now they couldn't give a rip. And if they're anything like their wise ancestor, they probably want as many people as possible to benefit from his wisdom.

[Joel Chue]

There are different versions of Think and Grow Rich lying around on the Internet.
Not all of them really belong to public domain. Take a look at gutenbeng.org, you can't find the book there.

[Baltar]

Originally Posted by stephencp

How is it that Think and Grow Rich is in the public domain given that it's copyright is 1937 (and that 1923 if often the milestone public domain stuff).

That's a good question. You're right that anything published before 1923 is in the public domain. For everything else it gets tricky based on what I've found. According to this, the book would be in the public domain right now if: it was originally published without a copyright notice, or it was published with a copyright notice but copyright was not renewed. If copyright was renewed then it would be copyrighted for 95 years from date of publication (for Think and Grow Rich that would be 2032). From looking around a bit, my understanding is that the copyright for the first edition (from 1937) either wasn't renewed or it was placed into public domain by the copyright holders.

[thef0x]

Originally Posted by tracyrtwyman

Hi All,

I just wanted to let you guys know that Napolean Hill's classic Think and Grow Rich is now available at sacred-texts.com for free: [LINK]

Of course, it's always better to have the book, but this will tide you over until you get around to buying it.

BTW, I am the author of a non-fiction book called Solomon's Treasure: The Magic and Mystery of America's Money. The upshot of the book is that money has a sacred origin, and that modern fiat currency is based upon the magical principles of alchemy. It's mainly a book about history, economics, and the occult, not a self-help book about how to get rich. However, I am currently working to adapt it to a self-help format, and creating a speaking presentation to go with it. I think this would be valuable to people.

At any rate, for the curious, here is a link to an article I wrote based on the concepts behind Solomon's Treasure: [LINK]

And here is a link to an interview I did about Solomon's Treasure *(actually a pre-interview before my appearance on Coast to Coast A.M. with Ian Punnett):[LINK]

Finally, here's a link to a page where you can buy Solomon's Treasure directly from me, with an autograph if you like, at a discounted price for Christmas: [LINK]

Or, if you prefer, here's where you can buy Solomon's Treasure on amazon: [LINK]

Also of possible interest to the Pavlina crowd, my biography of economist Thorstein Veblen: [LINK]

His life, like that of so many intellectuals, was sad and uninspiring, but his ideas were very interesting.

Best wishes to all,

Tracy R. Twyman

PLEASE STOP ADVERTISING YOUR SERVICES ON THIS COMMUNITY WEBSITE THANK YOU

[TheColonel]

Your post doesn't bother me at all. If it did, I would simply ignore it. You may be promoting your book, but it didn't come across as spammy to me. More power to you..

[stephencp]

I agree with the Colonel. You've provided plenty of info for free as well as promoting yourself. There's nothing wrong with that.

Stephen
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[Mycroft]

The reason the original version of T&GR is in the public domain is because Hill revised it in the early 60's and didn't renew the copyright on the original. So the revised version is under copyright, but the original is in the public domain.

[Kirby Barkley]

The text of Napoleon Hill's classic 1937 "Think and Grow Rich" is indeed available to be read, for free, on sacred-texts.com . The only problem I have with this edition -- and frankly with just about every other version of the book you can find (and there are many) -- is the "obsolete" quality of much of the content.

TGR is the greatest book on personal success ever written, no question about it. But it WAS written back in 1937. It uses some terminology and scientific concepts that have become completely obsolete. While this does not detract from Hill's basic ideas in the least, it makes understanding them more difficult simply because informed readers today know, for example, that there is no such thing as "the ether," but that we now know that the "electromagnetic spectrum" better describes how energy travels throughout the universe.

Hill wrote in an era when few women worked outside the home. What he said at times was perfectly suitable for the 1930s, but would today be considered sexist and discriminatory (although Hill didn't have a discriminatory bone in his body). He also made some statements that would have been considered fine for the 1930s, but which today could be considered racially offensive. Again, none of these things detracts from Hill's basic ideas and message, but they do create unnecessary obstacles for many of today's readers, especially women and members of various minorities.

Hill also wrote about people, events, and customs that the average reader would have been thoroughly familiar with in the 1930s to 1960s, but about which most modern readers just don't have a clue. I am a serious student of Napoleon Hill and his philosophy of success. I collect TGRs and own every edition, I believe, that has been published since 1960. I even have a 1938 edition. Of all the editions, I have found only one that solves all of the problems that exist with other editions such as the one found at sacred-texts.com. The book is titled "Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised," edited by Ross Cornwell.

Through some very subtle editing, Mr. Cornwell has cleared up the sexist, racist, and obsolete language that detracts from Hill's message at certain points. In a huge endnotes section he explains who all the people, events, and customs were that Hill wrote about but which are unfamiliar today. Why nobody else thought to give the book an index all these years is a mystery to me, so Cornwell has given TGR the first real index it has ever had (and it's a comprehensive one). This is just a big (400 plus pages), well-done book the size of a hardback. It has plenty of margin space for note taking. It's my personal favorite of all the various editions because it's the most informative and easiest to read and study. I have based my business and my personal life on what I have learned from Napoleon Hill and this great book, but I'm afraid the ebook and online versions (and the others that also repeat the same old mistakes) just don't cut it.

A final point about a comment by another poster: I read somewhere a few weeks ago that the 1937 edition moved into the public domain in the early 1960s. Other new editions since then carry their own copyrights, but the 1937 text is indeed in the public domain.

[stephencp]

"informed readers today know, for example, that there is no such thing as "the ether," but that we now know that the "electromagnetic spectrum" better describes how energy travels throughout the universe. "

Many authors in that period (like Frank Channing Haddock) also used the "ether" in discussions. While dismissed for a long time, it's coming back.

Echo of Black Holes; December 2005; Scientific American Magazine; by Theodore A. Jacobson and Renaud Parentani;"Sound waves in a fluid behave uncannily like light waves in space. Black holes even have acoustic counterparts. Could spacetime literally be a kind of fluid, like the ether of pre-Einsteinian physics?"

More importantly, the reason these authors were citing the "ether" was that there was a universal force that you "transmitted" your thoughts and intentions throughout the universe. That's still true.

Stephen
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[Balthazar]

Hi folks,

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but I was interested in your information on Think and Grow Rich.

As the 1937 copy isn't copyrighted does that also mean the name is available to be used, eg for a seminar - Think and Grow Richer?

Many thanks,

Balthazar.

[Technicolor Tim]

If I'm not mistaken, W. Clement Stone's company own the copyrights to Hills work, and they're apparently a very, very mean lot when it comes to copyright stuff, so I'd personally take great care in distributing this material.