Wallace Wattles

Wallace Delois Wattles was an American New Thought writer, born in 1860 and dead on 7 February 1911 in Ruskin, Tennessee, at the age of 51. He remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and remains in print in the New Thought and self-help movements. His best known work is the 1910 book The Science of Getting Rich, in which he explains his spiritual ideology on how to become wealthy, and in the same year he also published The Science of Being Well. After meeting the Congregational minister George Davis Herron in 1896 he became a social visionary preaching a Christian Socialist message, and he ran as a Socialist Party candidate in 1908 and 1910 without winning. He studied the writings of Hegel and Emerson and encouraged his readers to test his methods on themselves rather than take his word as an authority.