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This Adaptation of THE Science of Getting Rich for the 21st Century is for us and about us. Originally written by Wallace D. Wattles in 1910, this classic of prosperity literature has been rediscovered in recent decades and is now part of the public domain. While the timeless financial principles in this classic will transform our lives when we adopt them, certain aspects of the original manuscript* simply aren't a match for modern sensibilities. This Inclusive Edition is carefully edited to align with 21st century thought. Early readers of The Science of Getting Rich would understand that Wattles called his method of getting rich a "science". His contemporaries believed that the discoveries of science were infallible. Our great-great grandparents had no idea that our knowledge and understanding of our world is constantly changing as we build on the foundation of the past. The world-view of Newtonian physics, for example, has been superseded by quantum physics. This change is reflected in our Adaptation for modern readers.According to the science of Wattles' era, all things are formed of matter. At the ultimate level, everything is physical, reducible only to smaller and smaller particles of matter. Wattles believed what Newtonian physics proved: that all things that exist in our world are made up, at their most indivisible source, of matter, or what he called 'substance'. Substance, according to my contemporary dictionary (Funk & Wagnall, 1915) is "the material of which anything is made." Quantum physics, however, has since discovered that energy, not matter, underlies all material forms. I have therefore boldly substituted the word "Energy" for Wattles' "Substance" in this Adaptation for 21st Century readers.This Newtonian bias is just one of Wattle's prejudices. Writing with the cultural milieu of his century, he wrote almost exclusively for men and about men.** Gender bias, like Newtonian physics, has been superseded. This new, inclusive edition of the Science o