Divine Mind, of which we are all reflectors or
mediums, our bodies must have a right environment.

To get this right environment became the chief business and study of his
life.

To think that a man who always considers "the other fellow" should be a
great success in a business way is to us more or less of a paradox.
"Keep your eye on Number One," we advise the youth intent on success.
"Take care of yourself," say the bucolic Solons when we start on a
little journey. And "Self-preservation is the first law of life," voice
the wise ones.

And yet we know that the man who thinks only of himself acquires the
distrust of the whole community. He sets in motion forces that work
against him, and has thereby created a handicap that blocks him at every
step.

Robert Owen was one of those quiet, wise men who win the confidence of
men, and thereby siphon to themselves all good things. That the
psychology of success should have been known to this man in Seventeen
Hundred Ninety, we might call miraculous, were it not for the fact that
the miraculous is always the natural.

Those were troublous times when Robert Owen entered trade. The French
Revolution was on, and its fires lit up the intellectual sky of the
whole world. The Colonies had been lost to England; it was a time of
tumult in Threadneedle Street; the armies of the world were lying on
their arms awaiting orders. And out of this great unrest emerged Robert
Owen, handsome, intelligent, honest, filled with a holy zeal to help
himself by helping humanity.

Robert Owen was born in the village of Newtown, Wales, in Seventeen
Hundred Seventy-one. After being away from his native village for many
years, he returned, as did Shakespeare and as have so many successful
men, and again made the place of his boyhood the home of his old age.
Owen died in the house in which he was born. His body was buried in the
same grave where sleeps the dust of his father and his mother. During
the eighty-seven years of his life he accomplished many things and
taught the world lessons which it has not yet memorized.

In point of time, Robert Owen seems to have been the world's first
Businessman. Private business was to him a public trust. He was a
creator, a builder, an economist, an educator, a humanitarian. He got
his education from his work, at his work, and strove throughout his long
life to make it possible for others to do the same.

He believed in the Divinity of Business. He anticipate