The Secret of Ages is a pseudo-scientific self-help book that purports to contain the key to human happiness. Author Robert Collier claims throughout the book that positive thinkers actively collect a force equivalent to luck or cosmic goodwill and that through this process they acquire the objects of their desire. This belief, while unsubstantiated by controlled research or any evidence, is expounded on enthusiastically over the course of the volume.
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