'New Thought Pastels' is a collection of poems written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. It is partly inspired by the New Thought spiritual movement; deriving their beliefs from accumulated wisdom and philosophy from a variety of origins, such as Ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Chinese, Taoist, Vedic, Hindu, and Buddhist cultures and their related belief systems, primarily regarding the interaction between thought, belief, consciousness in the human mind, and the effects of these within and beyond the human mind.

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This book is a collection of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, an American author and poet. Her works are often cited in the anthologies of poetry. She was also famous as the author of the proverbial expression: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." This work by Charles Burdett, published in 1860, during the lifetime of Kit Carson, is an excellent example of popular literature about heroic frontiersmen of those times.

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Best known as the longtime writer of the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American—which introduced generations of readers to the joys of recreational mathematics—Martin Gardner has for decades pursued a parallel career as a devastatingly effective debunker of what he once famously dubbed "fads and fallacies in the name of science." It is mainly in this latter role that he is onstage in this collection of choice essays. When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish takes aim at a gallery of amusing targets, ranging from Ann Coulter's qualifications as an evolutionary biologist to the logical fallacies of precognition and extrasensory perception, from Santa Claus to The Wizard of Oz, from mutilated chessboards to the little-known "one-poem poet" Langdon Smith (the original author of this volume's title line). The writings assembled here fall naturally into seven broad categories: Science, Bogus Science, Mathematics, Logic, Literature, Religion and Philosophy, and Politics. Under each heading, Gardner displays an awesome level of erudition combined with a wicked sense of humor.