The Experiment of Self-Help
Self-help and personal improvement books have been gaining momentum for so long. Among all these books, topics on wealth creation and personal finance are the center of all these interest. However, some books just separate themselves from the substance that it presents rather than the form that most self-help books possess. The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles is definitely one of these books that hold much substance.
From the title, this book contends that there is an exact science in wealth creation which can be compared to the hard sciences today like chemistry in physics. Thus, there is an assumption that there are laws that guides the process of how to get rich and be financially free. This puts the pressure on the reader to follow the methods rather than the rhetoric. In addition, the reader is given the certainty that one can get rich with these laws.
Wattles wrote this at a time when the period of enlightenment is slowly turning into a period of modernism. That is why there are many parallel books about getting rich that is anchored on modernism; that is having a sense of certainty in achieving wealth if one...