Plenty: PART I

by P.C. Simon


Is it possible to have everything in abundance?

Yes, it is possible! Abundance is available through a fool-proof
system. When the Austrian  monk, Gregor Mendel, quietly worked out
the gene theory by cross-breeding pea plants, Karl von Nageli, the
reputed Swiss botanist, refused to accept the gene theory Similarly
my assertion that
the Creator has provided everything  will be laughed at. If we
persist, we will work out the mysteries of the Creator as to how we
can have this abundance.

But the trouble is that some of us do not believe that there is a
Creator. Those who believe that there is one do not attempt to know
His nature or His purpose in  creating human beings. Some  believe
that  he created   man with the dust of the earth and  do not know
from  where the dust came. They  believe to ask what, where, why,
how and who
is wrong and that  reasoning  is against religion.

If one tries to investigate, there will be great opposition. Thomas
Aquinas was asked to stop investigating the proof for the existence
of a god.

To avail this abundance we have to believe and  convince ourselves
that there is abundance available to us.  To convince us, we have to
prove it to ourselves.  The story of Cornelius Vanderbilt is a good
example.  A descendent of the Dutch Farmers, Vanderbilt,  left
school at 11.  At 16,  with the money borrowed from his parents and
bought a small boat to ferry people from Staten Island to New York.
By charging low fares and providing better service, he drove his
competitors out of business.

Then he started another  business   to transport  people  to
California for gold mining. He offered the cheapest fare for
prospectors to the gold country in California.

By 1887, he  became America's  richest man  at the age of 82.

Rockefeller after finishing high school went to work as a clerk at
age 14. In Cleveland Ohio. At age 20 he started his own business of
selling grain, hay and  meat on the Cleveland docks. Recognizing the
possibilities in oil refining he  branched into that business.  He
became disgusted about the inefficiency in many departments,  and by
careful cost cutting and eliminating wastage, became the most
successful oil refining operation.  He became America's greatest
philanthropist

The story of Henry Ford is the story of  America's rags to riches.
He began life on a farm but his aptitude for mechanics drew him to a
machine shop in Detroit. Joined Edison's Illuminating Company.

He formed  the Ford Motor Company to produce cheap, efficient
automobiles for every American. In 1908, his model T Ford sold for
$850, half the price of all other cars available. In 1914,  he paid
his workers $ 5.00 per eight hours work, above the norm among
automobile workers at that time.

William Carnegie, father of Andrew Carnegie, was a handloom weaver.
Young Andrew began work as a bobbin boy at age 12 in a cotton
factory. At 14 he became a messenger in a telegraph office. He came
to the attention of Thomas Scott, Superintendent of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and became his private secretary and personal
telegrapher. When Scott retired, Carnegie took over and founded the
J.Edgar Thompson Steel Works near Pittsburgh which eventually became
Carnegie Steel Company.

By introducing accounting and technological innovations to reduce
cost and by recruiting efficient subordinates, he created great
profits to the American steel industry.

His famous article "Wealth" in the North American Review became a
gospel for top wealth seekers. He advocated the principle that a man
who accumulated wealth must use it for improvement of mankind. He
said that a man who dies rich is disgraced . He advocated that the
proper administration of wealth should  bind the rich and the poor
in harmonious relation ship.  Competition is not only necessary but
essential for the future progress of the race. Talent for
organization and management must  secure for its possessor
enormous   rewards. Those who do not sow must not reap.
Accumulation of wealth by those who are capable of doing it is an
asset to the society and not a danger as the communist philosophy
dictates. Only good and not evil comes from accumulation of wealth.

Part Two  will explain how to achieve plentitude.

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Dr. Simon is a retired research microbiologist, philanthropist, and
author. Two of his books are The Missing Piece to Paradise and The
Philosopher's Notebook. They explain how abundance can be obtained
and how he is using the abundance by giving scholarships to students
of poor parents during the last ten years.

More information can be found on his website:
http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/psimon/book2.htm
http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/psimon/fund.htm

If you know clever students from poor families studying at U.B.C. or
Simon Fraser University, ask them to apply for scholarship.