Who Was James Allen? And Why He Matters

We are the result of what we think.

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James Allen, born in Leicester, England, in 1864, wrote nineteen books in nine years, the most well-known, his fifty-nine-page masterpiece, As A Man Thinketh.

In a publication after his death in 1912, his wife Lily described her husband's literary mission saying,

“He never wrote…