Audiobook Producer
7f0b598441
Root cause: clean-up found paragraph breaks from the layout indent of pdftotext -layout
(columns, relative to the smallest indent in the whole chapter). Chapter 1 happened to
have a clean left margin; later pages are skewed and drift 1-2 columns, drop caps push
the first lines right by varying amounts, and some pages wrap text around a label, so
continuation lines were taken as paragraph starts (a blank line inside a sentence).
Fix (all deterministic, all logged to warnings.log):
- pdftext: read each line's position in points (pdftotext -bbox-layout) and attach it to
the layout line it belongs to (units() now carries 'geom'; merged/partial lines get none).
- cleanup: a paragraph starts when a line sits >= 4.5 pt right of the line before it, or
>= 2.5 pt lower than the page's normal line pitch. A line without a position or starting
in lower case never starts a paragraph. Text wrapped beside a drop cap is not a start.
Without positions the old indent rule is still used.
- cleanup: drop cap + small caps on ONE layout line ('F OR MANY YEARS') is repaired like
the two-line form (chapters 4 and 5).
- pageparts.header_zone: the running header is found even when text follows it without a
blank line, and the right-hand header (chapter title, page number sometimes misread as
't5' or 'a') is recognised from the chapter title.
- cleanup: all-capitals lines below the text are captions (removed); an all-capitals line
above the text is kept as a section heading in title case ('The Deferred Preface');
'Right: MARK TWIN' style captions removed; '5. JOY' labels set inside a sentence removed.
- cleanup: paragraph starting with a lone quote mark + lower-case word joins the paragraph
before it; paragraph-leading ' + capital becomes '"' (not elisions such as 'Tis); a bullet
in place of an opening quote becomes '"'; closing quote with no opening quote, and a '1'
that is probably the letter I, are logged only.
- cleanup: mid-line 'worth- while' joined only when certain, otherwise logged.
- tests: new _pipeline/tests/test_cleanup.py (36 tests, 27 fail on the previous code);
test_pipeline.py helper test_piece renamed make_test_piece so pytest stops collecting it.
Chapter 1 text is byte-identical to the approved pilot text.
Re-run for chapters 1-6: cleanup, figures, script, license. Text, script, warnings and
book.json for chapters 2-6 added.
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"text": "Chapter Four. We Meet the Man of Action."
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"text": "For many years he lectured upon the philosophy of life, self-multiplication of the individual, and ethical principles in business to the officers and salesmen of International Business Machines Corporation, in the effort to build a finer race of manhood through greater comprehension of the Light of omniscience which is in all men awaiting their awareness of it. During these years he shook the very foundations of the caveat emptor principle which was in common usage when he began to infiltrate the Sermon on the Mount principles into big business. In his first lecture to this great organization he told its directors that he was utterly shocked at the two slogans which were then the very fundamentals of business. These were: \"Let the buyer beware,\" and \"The sale is the only thing that counts.\""
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"text": "In those early days there was a general opinion that a businessman could not be honest and make money or be successful. \"Business is business,\" was the slogan, with the connotation that no matter how sharp your practice, it was all right if you did it legally."
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"text": "\"That is the jungle philosophy of every man for himself,\" commented Mr. Russell. \"It can no longer be practiced in the business world for it works against natural law. The future of great business lies in man's comprehension of the principle of Balance in Natural Law and his determination to work WITH it instead of against it."
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"text": "\"The underlying principle of Balance in Nature's One Law is equality of interchange between the pairs of opposites in any transaction in Nature. That principle must eventually be observed by big business, and the go-getter salesman who selfishly thinks that the sale he makes is the only thing that counts is not giving equally for what he takes. Therefore, I say that equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern businessman awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics.\""
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"text": "Thus it was that he was enabled to sow the first seeds of his philosophy of achievement in a large way in a field of business."
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"text": "In his pleasures and in distasteful tasks alike, he carried out that principle of demanding masterliness of himself in all things. In skating, for example, he brought the best instructors of the world here under his own personal subsidy to improve his already skilled art of figure skating and to encourage the art in this country. For this purpose he organized the New York Skating Club, became its first president, gave the first four carnivals—now one of the great annual Madison Square Garden features—that brought the fine art of figure skating to a high point."
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"text": "During this period he passed the high tests which automatically would give him the National Amateur championship, but did not even claim it. He has skated with the greatest of professionals from the days of the spectacular Charlotte to the present day. At the request of the Hippodrome management he skated a single and double program one night with Charlotte, \"just for fun,\" as he said."
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"text": "At forty-nine years of age he skated a program for Pathe News at Lake Placid with the then national woman champion, Beatrice Loughlin. For several years he was one of the judges in the Lake Placid figure skating contests. He represented the United States as judge at the international contest for the Duke of Connaught trophy in Ottawa and led the grand march at the night carnival with the Duchess of Devonshire."
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"text": "At sixty-nine he won three first prizes in figure skating against competitors all under thirty. He still [in 1946] skates at Radio City and at the various private skating clubs."
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"text": "For many years he was an ardent and skilled horseman. Desiring to be \"tops,\" he obtained the world's best instructors and became so skilled in the art that he trained black stallions as show horses such as one sees at the circus. Seven to nine every morning found him in the ring at Durland's Riding Academy, working with tremendous enthusiasm upon one or more of the famous Arabian stallions which were a part of the twenty-seven Arabian horses which he kept at Oyster Bay for years to crossbreed with Henry Clay stock; his intent was to produce an American type equal to, or better than, the famous Orloff Russian type. Four o'clock to six every day found him riding black Arabian stallions in Central Park, always black stallions. After setting such a standard he would never ride an inferior horse."
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"text": "He became possessor of these horses through the habit of exchanging horses while riding with President Theodore Roosevelt. The owner of the Huntington Stud in Oyster Bay was only too glad to let the President and his artist friend exercise his wonderful stallions!"
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"text": "The artist became enamored of one named Black Diamond and another pure bay of the Anazeh tribe of Arabia named Khaled. He offered Mr. Huntington five thousand dollars for either one, but the breeder said he would sell all or none. He bought them all at $50,000."
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"text": "An hour later the President was so concerned at what he called Mr. Russell's impetuosity that he wanted to go to Mr. Huntington personally and ask for a return of the ten-thousand dollar deposit check and cancel the deal."
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"text": "\"What in heaven's name,\" said the President, \"will you do with them? Where will you keep them? You will have to buy oats by the carload, and they will eventually break you as they did Mr. Huntington.\""
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"text": "\"I bought the place also, a house and forty acres. I have arranged to keep all his help, and I will place a fine man whom I know in charge. It won't take much of my time and will interest me immensely,\" was Mr. Russell's reply."
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"text": "Years later he disposed of the horses for as high as fifteen thousand dollars for one horse, and the property value increased so greatly that his losses were practically voided by his gains. In telling me of it he said, \"That was one of the greatest experiences of my life. I wouldn't have missed it for a million.\""
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"text": "He carried out this principle even in his distasteful tasks. \"There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life,\" he said. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for it develops body-destructive toxins, and you become fatigued very soon."
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"text": "\"You must love anything you must do. Do it not only cheerfully, but also lovingly and the very best way you know how. That love of the work which you must do anyhow will vitalize your body and keep you from fatigue.\""
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"text": "At his splendid country home he often had to mow the lawns himself, a task which he disliked. In order to make it interesting he developed patterns and designs in the grass as he cut it, then gradually eliminated the patterns with regret that the game had to come to an end. That was his method of transforming work into play."
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"text": "In his written philosophy are these words: A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it."
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"text": "\"What about defeat? Have you ever failed in anything?\" I asked."
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"text": "\"Oh, yes!\" he replied. \"I have had my share of what one calls defeat, and in plenty. I have made and lost fortunes and seen great plans of mine topple through my own errors of judgment or through other causes. In the panic of 1907 I lost$300,000. In the Miami fiasco I lost a $10,000 dollars-a-month retainer on architectural contracts for designing over $80 million dollars worth of mass structures for Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, and other Florida resorts. Two of these were complete civic centers, and one included seven miles of beach near Jacksonville."
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"text": "\"But I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success. Defeat is a condition which one must accept in order to give it reality. I refuse to give it reality by accepting it. In my philosophy I have written these words: Defeat I shall not know. It shall not touch me. I will meet it with true thinking. Resisting it will he my strengthening. Rut if, perchance, the day will give to me the hitter cup, it will sweeten in the drinking."
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"text": "\"One of the most heart-rending so-called defeats I have ever experienced was in my youth. At twenty-eight years of age I had painted an extremely ambitious allegory entitled The Might of Ages to symbolize the power of thought in the making of civilization. I had envisioned great things arising from its exhibition at the National Academy. Much to my consternation the Academy rejected it, whereupon the plenipotentiaries of the King of Italy accidentally saw it at my dealers and invited it, exempt from jury, as a representative American picture at the Turin International Exposition of Art to be held in 1900 in commemoration of the Twentieth Century. This aroused nationwide criticism of the National Academy for not encouraging its own. The picture was exhibited in other European cities and gave me several honorable mentions, a membership to the Spanish Academy of Arts and Letters, a decoration (one of those scarlet ribbon things which I have lost long ago), and the pleasure of a personal visit from King Albert of Belgium to my studio in New York to again see that picture."
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"text": "\"How can one call that a defeat? There is no such thing.\""
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"text": "\"What is the great passion of your life?\" I asked. \"Beauty,\" he replied without hesitation. \"Beauty, and worthiness to live life as a masterful interpreter of the Light.\" \"What do you mean by beauty?\" 1 asked. \"Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, one's thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures, and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore one must think beauty always if one desires vitality of body and happiness.\" In his life philosophy this principle is stated as follows: I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune."
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"text": "Mr. Russell is now on the eve of his last transitional epoch in which he will major in science and philosophy, but will never quite give up painting, music, or sculpture."
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"text": "He pioneered in foreseeing two of the greatest discoveries of modern times: the isotopes of hydrogen, which led to the discovery of heavy water, and the two new elements used in the atomic bomb. He announced the complexity of hydrogen to a body of distinguished scientists years before the truth of his statement was verified. But it is the atomic bomb that will prove to be the earthshaking, epoch-making discovery of the future. The two newly discovered elements that formed the basis of the atomic bomb, called Neptunium and Plutonium, were published in his charts of the elements in 1926. He named them Uridium and Urium. He also predicted that if they were ever discovered, the pressures of this planet would not be sufficient to hold them together."
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"text": "\"It is almost humorous to speak of 'guarding the secret, locking it up in American and British archives.' Knowledge cannot be locked up. It is cosmic, wide open to every thinker, and limited only to his knowledge. There is enough new knowledge right in this country today to make this present value of atomic secrecy worthless in a very few years.\""
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"text": "When asked to give some clues as to this new knowledge that could harness the new discovery for common usage, he stated that we must reverse all electrochemical practice by ceasing to rely upon substance primarily and electricity secondarily. \"In fact,\" he said, \"it is better practically to forget substance, for the varying pressures of electricity in different sections of the wave alone determine the variations of substance and perform all the miracles of the laboratory of Nature, as well as that of the chemist. The number of electrons and protons has nothing whatsoever to do with the determination of difference in the elements, as commonly believed."
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"text": "\"That which man calls matter, or substance, has no existence whatsoever. So-called matter is but waves of the motion of light, electrically divided into opposed pairs, then electrically conditioned and patterned into what we call various substances of matter. Briefly put, matter is but the motion of light, and motion is not substance. It only appears to be. Take motion away and there would not be even the appearance of substance."
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"text": "\"Electricity manufactures all of the qualities and attributes of light in wave motion which we think of as substance. Density, alkalinity, acidity, conductivity, pressures of heat and cold, and even appearance is given to waves of light by the two electrical workers which build up the universe and tear it apart in polarized fields measured out by the two magnetic surveyors which keep all electric actions in balance with their reactions."
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"text": "\"You pick up one of these products of wave motion and say, This is a piece of steel,' or This is an apple,' without the slightest realization that sudden withdrawal of the electric power which brought that state of motion into being would blow you and it, and a mile or more around you, into the nothingness of the equilibrium from which you were electrically assembled."
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"text": "\"That is what radioactivity is: a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe. And that is what a lightning flash is, as contrasted to flame which is a slower return, or to decay which is a still slower return."
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"text": "\"And so,\"said Mr. Russell, \"our creative thinkers in the laboratories of the world must look primarily to light, which is the foundation of the universe, and to the wave, within which the secrets of creation lie, and to what electricity does with light, and to the why of it, and to the why of energy electrically expressed instead of to substance to perform tomorrow's miracles.\""
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"text": "\"Tell me how you acquired your scientific knowledge,\" I asked. \"You say you never studied physics and have read but few books in your life.\""
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"text": "\"It is because I always looked for the CAUSE behind things and didn't fritter away my time analyzing EFFECTS,\" he replied. \"ALL KNOWLEDGE EXISTS as CAUSE. And it is simple. It is limited to LIGHT OF MIND and the electric wave of motion which records God's thinking in matter."
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"text": "\"EFFECT is complex—infinitely complex—but one can have no KNOWLEDGE of effect. One can but be INFORMED of effect. Information is not knowledge. Our educational processes INFORM us, but until we have recognized the eternal truth that underlies that information, we have no knowledge of it. Like food in the grocery store, it is not nourishment until it is converted to the blood stream. ALL -KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone—and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible."
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"text": "\"Can you tell me the process by which this ALL-KNOWLEDGE came to you? Was it always a gradual process, the result of earnest, patient seeking, or was there a high point, a period of revelation or illumination?\""
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"text": "Mr. Russell replied, \"I will put it very simply. In May of 1921 God took me up into a high mountain of inspiration and intense ecstasy. A brilliant Hash like lightning severed my bodily sensation from my consciousness, and I found myself freed from my body and wholly in the Mind universe of Light, which is God."
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"text": "\"And then God said to me, 'Behold thou the unity of all things in Light of Me, and the seeming separateness of all things in the two lights of my divided thinking. Sec thou that I, the Undivided, Unchanging One, am within all divided things, centering them, and I am without all changing things, controlling them.\""
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"text": "\"And the secrets of the universe were unfolded to me in their great simplicity as the doors to the Light opened fully to my consciousness. In less time than it takes to put it into words, I knew all there was to know of the CAUSE of all effect, for there was very little to know. In that hour it was as though the infinity of complexity within the moving kaleidoscope were suddenly taken apart, and it was shown to me that the entirety of its illusion was but three mirrors and a few bits of broken glass. Likewise the universal kaleidoscope was but moving mirror waves of dual light extending from their equilibrium in God from Whom all creating things spring in octave electric waves just as the ocean waves spring from the calm sea."
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"text": "\"Thus knowing the static Light of God, the two dynamic lights of His thinking, and the electric processes by means of which His thinking is recorded in 'matter,' I at once had the key to all the sciences: mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, and mechanics; and likewise to all the underlying principles of creation: of life and the healing principle; of continuity in a universe in which there is no death; of energy which is not what man thinks it to be; and of matter which is not substance as man supposes it to be; and of the forces which act upon it which man has learned how to use somewhat, but knows not the why of that which he uses."
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"text": "\"And likewise the mystery of the soul was mine to know; and of growth; and the patterns of things in the seeds of things; and the manner of their unfolding, their repetition, and their evolution."
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"text": "\"And the LAW was mine to know, the ONE LAW which governs all things extending from the Source through the universal pulse beat which motivates all things. And it was made known to me that I must extend knowledge of this law into all human relations to help remake the world in its new day which God has planned."
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"text": "\"For very many days and nights I was made to write down all these things which I knew in The Divine Iliad, which is my record of my teachings while in the Light. In that one volume of many thousands of words, there was never an erasure nor correction, and the language of that divine message was not mine. I could never have written such rhythmic essence of knowledge, nor have created its exalted style."
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"text": "\"Thus I was made to see the universe as a whole and its simple principle of creation as one unit, repeated over and over, endlessly and without variation, as evidenced in the universal heartbeat to which every pulsing thing in the light-wave universe is geared to act as ONE UNIT OF THE WHOLE."
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"text": "\"So simple is this underlying Principle of Creation that I have been enabled, throughout these years, to state it in one paragraph and one octave-wave diagram so simply that every law or theory ever propounded in the past or future by man can be tested by that paragraph and that diagram. If they will not fit into this unitary principle, they are outside of Natural Law and must be discarded. It will be found that most of even the most fundamental laws and theories of the past and present do not come anywhere near fitting into this underlying principle. They will, therefore, have to be discarded in favor of immortal Truth."
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"text": "\"And so it happened that I, who had never had any school or university training above the primary grades, thus knew instantly, while in the Light, what all the universities in the world could never teach."
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"text": "\"By this rarest of all experiences ever to happen to any man, it was made known to me just what Jesus meant when He spoke of 'the Light of the world.' He meant just that, yet it has been misinterpreted as metaphor or symbol."
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"text": "\"No greater proof than my experience is needed to prove to the doubting world that all knowledge exists in the Mind universe of Light—which is God—that all Mind is One Mind, that men do not have separate minds, and that all knowledge can be obtained from the Universal Source of All-Knowledge by becoming One with that Source.\""
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