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HOW I ELIMINATED 
 FEAR 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE WHARTON JAMES 
 
 L. N. FOWLEB & Co. 
 
 LUDQATE ClBCUS, LONDON, E.G. 
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 HOLYOKE, MASS. 
 
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OBItminateD Jfeat 
 
 V V] 'HEN I was a boy I was full of 
 ^SA fear; afraid of everything. I 
 dreaded the dark; was afraid of ghosts, 
 hobgoblins, churchyards and graves. Being 
 a sickly child, I was afraid of other boys; 
 their rude ways and rough treatment 
 scared me away from them, hence I 
 had no boy companions none but girls. 
 When I began to read miscellaneous 
 stories, I learned of vampires, giant spiders, 
 and the like, and they gave me many 
 hours of terror for years. Physically I was 
 afraid of high places, of horses, cows, drunken 
 men, and I never saw an animal killed until 
 I was a man grown without fainting when 
 the blood began to flow. The sight of a 
 knife, a razor, or a revolver turned me cold 
 
6 HOW 1 ELIMINATED FEAR 
 
 
 
 and sent thd shivers iip &%& dtfwn my spine, 
 and I fparddy;conffess\I: believe that is one 
 reason why' I 'have nevfeT shavfcd. When 
 religious aspirations began to stir my in- 
 most being, and Methodist theology was 
 opened up in a measure to my under- 
 standing, I became dreadfully afraid of 
 evil, of the devil, and, strange to say or 
 is it strange? of God. The thought of 
 death was terrible to me. It was the gate- 
 way to punishment for an ill-spent life. I 
 had that awful picture ever before me of 
 "the lake burning forever with fire and 
 brimstone," where "the smoke of their 
 torment ascends forever and ever," varied 
 with the pleasant contemplation of being 
 among those who "hid themselves in the 
 caves and in the rocks of the mountains; 
 and say to the mountains, and to the rocks, 
 Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him 
 that sitteth on the Throne, and from the 
 wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of 
 
HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 7 
 
 their wrath is come; and who is able to 
 stand it." I was constantly examining my- 
 self to find out whether there was any chance 
 for my name not being "blotted out of the 
 book of life." 
 
 When I began "to enter society" I was 
 afraid of my manners. I was always humil- 
 iated by our poverty. I was afraid my 
 clothes, my collars, my cuffs, were not "the 
 correct thing," yet I knew it was hopeless 
 to try to change these, for I was afraid of 
 the battle of life and knew I never could win 
 enough money in it to secure any of the 
 rewards given to the brave. Indeed, so 
 lamentable was my mental condition of ser- 
 vitude to fear that I had no ambitions, as 
 most boys had. I never once looked for- 
 ward to attaining any high position; never 
 once had visions of myself honored and 
 flattered by my fellows, and all the rest of 
 it; never once saw myself a rich man, doing 
 what other rich men did. 
 
8 HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 
 
 I would not have my readers think I am 
 exaggerating my fearful condition. I am 
 speaking the truth in strict soberness. I 
 lived a very somber life as a boy. There 
 was little or no sunshine in it. I was ever 
 in a land of clouds. Day and night I was 
 afraid, and as I now look back I wonder 
 that I ever came out into the joy and sun- 
 light, the blessedness and happiness of 
 living. 
 
 When it was I began to work hard I really 
 cannot remember, but I know I must have 
 begun to do so early. I do not mean physi- 
 cally, for I have never been an athlete, and 
 my physical labors did not begin until I was 
 climbing mountains, riding down canyon 
 trails, and the like, after I came to this 
 country. The hardest work I ever did in 
 my life until I came to the United States 
 was to ride a bicycle. Intellectually, how- 
 ever, I was alert, and must have worked hard, 
 though at the time I did not realize it. 
 
HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 9 
 
 But it was that hard work that, ultimately, 
 was to be my salvation from fear. As I have 
 read New Thought literature I have seen 
 much of the need for making affirmations. 
 The helpfulness of this method is constantly 
 set forth. The teachers say : Let your affir- 
 mations be clear, strong, many, and positive. 
 Personally I know nothing of this method of 
 attaining. I do not criticise it, reject it, re- 
 fuse it. I know simply nothing of it. My 
 mental make-up has seemed to require differ- 
 ent treatment, and I can truthfully state that 
 with me power, health, whatever I have 
 sought has come with slow, plodding, diligent 
 work, and the affirmation has come after -?- 
 not before the power. In other words, 
 when I was sick and ailing, I did not affirm: 
 "I am strength, I am health!" I knew 
 nothing of that method of attaining what I 
 desired. I began to eat carefully, bathe, 
 breathe deeply, exercise and the like, and 
 as the years went by I slowly realized very 
 
10 HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 
 
 slowly, yet surely my heart's desire for 
 health, and then I was able to affirm: "I am 
 health." 
 
 When I was so fearful I did not affirm: "I 
 have no fear. There is no fear in me. I will 
 walk, live, talk, fearless and unafraid," for I 
 knew I was afraid, I was often almost para- 
 lyzed with terror, and I had not learned to 
 differentiate between the real "I" of me, and 
 the cowardly body of me that was subject to 
 all these craven feelings. But I did reso- 
 lutely strive to overcome my fears by prayer, 
 and work mental and physical. 
 
 Now, as I look back, I can see that it was 
 the result of my reading, the suggestions of 
 good men and women, the promptings of 
 my own spirit, the inspirations of the Holy 
 Spirit of the Everywhere, that ultimately 
 led me to freedom from fear. And I believe 
 I owe more to the poems the thought 
 of Robert Browning than to all else com- 
 bined. When I began to read him, the 
 
HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 11 
 
 dark cloud of Pauline theology began to 
 dissipate. I was thrilled, uplifted, inspired 
 by the newer, larger, more noble concep- 
 tions. Hitherto I had been afraid of God, 
 in spite of all that my Methodist theology 
 taught me of His goodness. I knew He 
 was good at least I supposed so yet He 
 was still the "judge of all the earth." He 
 was keeping tab on me all the time, and 
 every "sin" I committed was written down 
 in the book of remembrance, and, being a 
 sensitive youngster, I sinned a great deal in 
 my own estimation. In other words, the 
 Pauline theology had made me morbidly 
 self-conscious. I was on the stool of repent- 
 ance all the time. Had I lived in medieval 
 times I should have been a monk, wearing 
 sackcloth and putting ashes on my head all 
 the time mortifying the flesh in order 
 that the spirit might live. 
 
 Now, however, Browning opened up a 
 new world of life, hope, and joy to me. He 
 
12 HOW 1 ELIMINATED FEAR 
 
 showed me God as I had always felt He 
 ought to be, but as I never had dared assert 
 He was. He did the affirming for me, and 
 I began to dare to affirm with him. Never 
 shall I forget the thrill that went through my 
 whole being when I read in Abt Vogler: 
 "Doubt not that Thy power can fill the 
 
 heart that Thy power expands!" 
 Of course if God expands my heart to de- 
 sires for good, He must intend that it shall 
 be filled, or He is a cruel monster thus to 
 mock me. Then in Rabbi Ben Ezra I read: 
 
 "Grow old along with me! 
 
 The best is yet to be, 
 The last of life, for which the first was made: 
 
 Our times are in His hand 
 
 Who saith: "A whole I planned, 
 Youth shows but half ; trust God: see all nor 
 be afraid.'" 
 
 Read it again carefully so that you get the 
 full beauty and joy of the thought that came 
 to me. God planned my life, or I should not 
 
HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 13 
 
 have come into being. He planned. Then 
 if He planned, He must have planned some- 
 thing perfect. If it was imperfect, or seemed 
 imperfect, the fault could not be in Him. 
 Where was it? I didn't know, but from that 
 time on I resolved I would believe that my 
 life was planned by the All Creator to be a 
 perfect life. And neither man, devil, nor 
 myself could hinder God hi the accom- 
 plishment of His purpose. 
 
 Then, later on in the same poem, I came 
 to this stanza: 
 
 "He fixed thee mid this dance, 
 
 Of plastic circumstance, 
 This Present, thou, forsooth, wouldst fain 
 
 arrest: 
 
 Machinery just meant 
 To give thy Soul its bent, 
 Try thee, and turn thee forth, sufficiently 
 
 impressed." 
 
 What? God fixed me in these apparently 
 adverse circumstances? In this poverty, 
 
14 HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 
 
 fear, ill-health, and other evils? And it was 
 all done with a purpose? Then what a con- 
 summate fool I was to kick against the pur- 
 pose of God! Why not learn the lesson? 
 Why not conform myself to the Divine plan, 
 and welcome the poverty, the ill-health, the 
 fear, the everything, provided I had the 
 warming assurance in my inmost Soul that 
 out of it all God was preparing the way 
 that the motive for it all was my good, my 
 perfect health, happiness, freedom from 
 fear, my serenity, peace, joy. 
 
 From that moment I began to improve. 
 I began to rise to have confidence, to say 
 to my fears, Begone! I took on a new lease 
 of life the first real joy-lease I had had. 
 I held my head up. I was the King's son ! I 
 had the Eternal Power behind me. I 
 mighty near became a fatalist, in that I felt, 
 as I now feel, that if whatever comes is 
 planned by the Divine ill-health, failure, 
 taxes, fears, even death itself these are 
 
HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 15 
 
 the very best things that can come, so let 
 them come! I'm ready for them, will joy- 
 ously welcome them, for I know, now, that 
 these are only the disciplinary preparations 
 I need for the larger, fuller, surer, blesseder 
 life that I know is mine. What room then 
 for fear? And can you not see how that 
 my affirmations have come after my ex- 
 periences, rather than before? 
 
 Afraid? Now? I am afraid neither of 
 God, man nor devil! Why should I be of 
 God, who is the loving All Father who 
 planned everything for my good? And as far 
 as being afraid of man is concerned; what 
 man is there that is more than a man? I 
 am a man among men, therefore neither 
 president, king, kaiser nor emperor can 
 make me afraid. None of them can do 
 more than imprison, hurt, kill the body, 
 and what does that amount to? They 
 never can touch the "me," the inner self, 
 the "I," that is of God, under His protec- 
 
16 HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 
 
 tion, and that will go back to Him. So 
 I now go through life with my head held 
 aloft, fearless and unafraid, for, as far as 
 the old devil of my Methodistic days is con- 
 cerned, I just tell him to go to hell, where 
 he belongs, and attend to his own business; 
 I and mine are no concern of his. 
 
 As soon as these blessed assurances took 
 full possession of me there came the belief 
 that I ought to be free from the ill-health 
 that so long had cursed me. God was a God 
 of health, not of disease. The world was full 
 of health. It was mine to call upon. I re- 
 solved I would do so. For years I had felt 
 the hopelessness of my own case. I had 
 seen the terror the world felt of disease: the 
 bondage most people were in to the doctors, 
 medicines and the drugstore. I came to 
 the conclusion that, fundamentally) as a 
 matter of principle, of right, of justice, of 
 God's planning, this was all wrong; must 
 be wrong, or there was no God. As I was 
 
HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 17 
 
 assured there was a loving power in the 
 Universe, I determined to break loose from 
 this incubus of fear of disease. I began to 
 call upon the powers of the Universe. I 
 breathed deeply as I walked, and allowed 
 sun, air, rain and fog to caress my whole 
 body. I sought to be as near "natural" 
 as I could; took pattern from the Indians; 
 went to bed early, got up early, ate little, 
 ate simply, bathed often and soothingly, 
 and worked hard. 
 
 For I had begun to gain insight into the 
 greatest lesson I think I have ever learned, 
 viz., that the natural way, God's way, to get 
 more of anything is to use what you have. 
 
 As I got health I worked harder, in what 
 I conceived to be work that would benefit 
 mankind. I resolved that I could easier 
 starve to death than do work that would in- 
 jure mankind. I could never be a wine- 
 maker, wine-seller, beer-seller, whisky-seller, 
 cigar-maker, tobacconist, even a pill- maker 
 
18 HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 
 
 or druggist. I must do something for a 
 living that commended itself to my judg- 
 ment and conscience as beneficial to man- 
 kind, and whatever it was, I would work 
 at it for all I was worth. 
 
 Thus I grew stronger yearly until now, as 
 I near the sixtieth milestone, I am younger hi 
 feeling than I was at twenty-five; I am able 
 to do ten times the work I did then and I 
 do it easily. Three days ago I met a promi- 
 nent physician of the city where I am now 
 working. He did not know me, though he 
 said we had been introduced to each other at 
 a convention, and that was why he presumed 
 to stop me, but he wished to tell me that I 
 was the most healthy-looking and acting man 
 he knew. I walked with the springiness of 
 youth; my face and whole body radiated 
 perfect health, and he was sure I should 
 live to be over a hundred. I told him I ex- 
 pected to make it 150 years, and he seri- 
 ously remarked as I passed on, "There's 
 
HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 19 
 
 nothing to hinder! I should not be sur- 
 prised but that you'd do it!" 
 
 And I confidently expect to. Anyhow, 
 I'm having a great deal of fun and joy in 
 planning my work for the next ninety years, 
 and living now as if I had all that time at 
 my disposal. 
 
 May I here state what is my habitual mode 
 of thought in regard to the things men and 
 women generally are afraid of in matters of 
 health? If I am seated in a draft and my 
 friends say, "You'll take cold," my invari- 
 able reply is, "I'll stay then, for I'd rather 
 take cold and die than go back to the old 
 bondage of fear." If I fear I mustn't eat 
 anything, if it is mere fear that stands 
 in the way, I immediately eat the for- 
 bidden thing and kill the fear. If I fear, 
 or other people try to make me fear, any- 
 thing, I deliberately do that thing. I flaunt 
 fear in the face, I challenge him, provoke 
 him, dare him, defy him, until now, instead 
 
20 HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 
 
 of being something to be afraid of, he comes 
 slinking around like a trodden-down hobo, 
 begging me not to kill him off entirely, as 
 he doesn't want to be banished entirely 
 from the earth. 
 
 For a time I overworked indoors, when I 
 was longing to get out-of-doors. I brought 
 on a well-defined, apparently chronic case of 
 asthma. My friends became afraid for me. 
 As soon as I felt their fear and as long as 
 I felt it I resolutely determined to let the 
 asthma kill me before I would yield fear of 
 it. Then, when I was ready, I broke loose 
 from my work, went and fasted fifteen days, 
 then, a little later, took off all my clothes and 
 got into the air and sun for two weeks, took 
 nothing but milk, and then went off into 
 the wildest part of our United States, among 
 the Navajo Indians, slept out with few 
 covers many nights when the temperature 
 was below zero, ate simply, and came back 
 better than I had been for years. 
 
HOW I ELIMATED FEAR 21 
 
 Now and then I am urged by the exigencies 
 of work to do things that are not good for 
 me, but I go ahead, trusting in the All Health 
 for health. When I seemed to fail as I did 
 a couple of months ago, when I had a severe 
 attack of grippe that took hold of my bron- 
 chial tubes, I went where I could take off 
 my clothes and get the air and sun on my 
 body, fasted for four days, lived on nothing 
 but milk the next ten days, and then went 
 and delivered seven lectures a day to show 
 that I was convalescing. 
 
 I am now lecturing in a hall capable of 
 seating crowded a hundred and fifty 
 people. It has little ventilation. My au- 
 diences often run up to 250 and even 300, 
 and one lecture follows another sometimes 
 for four consecutive hours. I ought to get 
 sick, according to all the accepted ideas, 
 but I feel that if, in the discharge of my 
 duty, under adverse conditions, I cannot 
 call for the extra help the Universe of Love 
 
22 HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 
 
 is full of, what is the use of there being such 
 a universe? So I go on, am content, happy, 
 and except for the experience related 
 above am vulgarly healthful and radi- 
 antly happy hi my work and life. 
 
 But there were other fears I had to over- 
 come. I believe I was, and am, naturally, a 
 coward. I used to be afraid of a horse run- 
 ning away with me; of drowning when I 
 went in swimming; starving to death if I 
 got lost. Soon after I began my exploring 
 life in the wilds of our West I made up my 
 mind to kill all these fears, I determined 
 to use all the caution my brain could sug- 
 gest, all the foresight, knowledge, and ex- 
 perience of others as well as myself, and 
 then go fearlessly and bravely to my work. 
 For instance, I wanted to explore the run- 
 away Colorado River, when it broke loose 
 and made the Salton Sea. No one knew 
 where it went and how it reached the 
 Salton. In a lecture I announced I was 
 
HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 23 
 
 going to follow it and find where it went. 
 Two or three adventurous souls asked if 
 they might go along. A party was made 
 up of seven. I engaged two Indians to go 
 and aid us. The engineers who were spend- 
 ing hundreds of thousands, that later were 
 to become millions of dollars, in curbing the 
 runaway river and get it back to its natural 
 courses, told us we could never get through 
 the country. They had sent expert men, 
 men familiar with the country, with their 
 best Indians, and they all had given it up. 
 They even called upon these men to give 
 me their experiences. One said it was 
 "hell boiled down." Another said the 
 river ran out into a sandy desert, seeped 
 through into some rocky channel and thus 
 worked its way to the Salton Sea, and there 
 were other dreadful things conjured up, as 
 that we should get stranded in the midst of 
 quicksands and be unable to get out, etc., 
 etc. 
 
24 HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 
 
 Now this is what I wish to make clear. 
 The more these people sought to dissuade 
 me, the more scared I got. But I was de- 
 termined to kill my fear. I resolved to go 
 ahead, for I knew I had rather die trying 
 than back out to live and be afraid, and 
 forever after have the feeling that I had not 
 dared. 
 
 We started. We found all the warnings 
 were true. It was "hell boiled down." For 
 fifteen days and nights we were constantly 
 wet through. One night I slept in my boat, 
 which sank in quicksand nearly up to the 
 gunwale, opened its seams and let in water, 
 so that when I awoke I was in water up to 
 the chin. Yet so weary was I that I slept 
 through it. 
 
 At the end of the fifteen days five of the 
 seven and one of the Indians had had enough, 
 and as an opportunity arose to leave the 
 party they went. Two of us and one In- 
 dian went on to such adventures as few 
 
HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 25 
 
 would care to repeat, but that give me a 
 thrill of joyful triumph as I recall. I won! 
 I killed the fear! I have been the better 
 man for it ever since. 
 
 A few years ago an eastern editor, having 
 read of some of my adventures, asked me to 
 tell of the times I had "faced Death," and 
 write out the story of each experience. That 
 led me to count them up, and I found I had 
 sat face to face with Death twenty-seven dif- 
 ferent times; three times by near drowning; 
 once by being thrown down a twenty-five 
 foot precipice from the back of a runaway 
 mule; once by falling when alone and 
 where no one could ever have found me 
 down a precipice, where I lay, the whole 
 of my lower body paralyzed for several 
 hours; thrice for want of water; once by 
 being caught in quicksands; once from at- 
 tack of a panther; once from the bite of a 
 rattlesnake; once in a railway collision; 
 three times from guns in the hands of 
 
26 HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 
 
 drunken, infuriated men; once by a fren- 
 zied and angered man in one of my audiences: 
 once by having a horse jump on to me and 
 break one of my ribs; another time by being 
 thrown from the back of an unbroken horse; 
 again through a severe operation I was com- 
 pelled to undergo as the result of being in- 
 jured by a bucking horse, etc., etc. 
 
 So that now the Arch Fear, Death himself, 
 literally has no terrors for me. I laugh at 
 him, defy him, dare him to touch me for 
 I know, deep down in my inner conscious- 
 ness, that there is no such thing as Death. 
 The Universe is not controlled by Death; 
 it is under the benign forces of Life, and I 
 AM, and I always shall be I AM, for there, 
 is no time, only the Eternal Now. 
 
 Another fear, however, I had to learn to 
 master. When I was a Methodist preacher 
 I was afraid of offending people, and es- 
 pecially those who paid my poor and meager 
 salary. I had a family. Money was essen- 
 
HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 27 
 
 tial. What fights I had when threats came 
 as they did that I must quit preach- 
 ing on this, that, or the other line, or so 
 and so would cut out his subscription! But, 
 thank God, there was a streak of stubborn 
 conscience in me that refused to be silent 
 at such times, and I dared the loss of my 
 salary and said my say. I am free to con- 
 fess one of the most pitiable things in our 
 civilization to me today is this moral fear, 
 this cowardice that is engendered lest one 
 lose his job. The truckling subservience 
 of employees to employers; the fear of 
 business men offending their patrons; the 
 pandering, yielding of the professional men 
 to the rudenesses, vulgarities, indignities, 
 insults even, of those who employ them, 
 are a sad sight to me. I have had my 
 share of the temptations, but am doing my 
 best to kill every fear of this kind. 
 
 Then there came another development of 
 fearlessness. I had ever been afraid to reach 
 
28 HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 
 
 out and do things that required energy, 
 strength, money, and long life to accomplish. 
 I had been deterred by the fear that I had 
 not the strength, and could never raise the 
 money, and could not live long enough to 
 accomplish anything. But now new ideas 
 of fearlessness took the place of these 
 thoughts of dread. Why should I be afraid? 
 Life was eternal, and was the gift of God. 
 If I wanted to live for God and mankind I 
 had the right to call upon the inexhaustible 
 resources of God. In Browning's Abt Vogler 
 I had learned that when God expanded my 
 heart in a desire for good I could absolutely 
 rest assured that sometime, somewhere, 
 somehow, that desire would be fulfilled. 
 There came with this assurance another 
 equally satisfying, and that was that there 
 was, with those who knew, loved and 
 trusted God, "no more near nor far" no 
 time it was all one Eternal Now. There- 
 fore I began to plan large things. I started 
 
HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 29 
 
 to write books, that ten years before no 
 one on earth ever could have convinced me 
 I could accomplish. I should not live long 
 enough! I did not know enough! I had 
 never been educated in the schools, and 
 was incompetent; But first one book, then 
 another, came from my pen, and now I have 
 about twenty-five works that are recognized 
 as standards to my credit, four others half 
 written, two more urgently ordered, and a 
 contract with one publisher for a book a 
 year for the next twenty years. 
 
 Then I decided to become a rancher. I 
 bought 280 acres of land from a railroad on 
 a ten-year contract. To pay for it would 
 require far more each year for ten years than 
 I had ever earned in any year in my life. 
 But I had the confidence of my new as- 
 surance. God was in His heaven. He 
 had inspired me to this step. He would 
 see that it worked out all right. Hence 
 I have gone ahead with confidence. And, 
 
30 HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 
 
 without any wire-pulling on my own part, 
 I have been kept so busy at the work I de- 
 light in, and at such fair pay, that my in- 
 come has more than taken care of the 
 first four of my yearly payments. And, in 
 addition to making these payments, I have 
 paid off in full on eighty of the 280 acres, 
 and now have a deed for them; I have paid 
 $1500 for an artesian well; $200 for a 
 stable; $600 for a house; $100 for fencing; 
 $1000 for mules, horses, cows, etc.; have 
 cleared and planted about a hundred of the 
 280 acres, and am ready next year to plant 
 out another 100 in a crop that will prove 
 profitable. 
 
 But and here I suppose I may run 
 counter to the ideas of many of my New 
 Thought friends "suppose," they say, 
 "you were to fail in this. Your health were 
 to break down; you were unable to keep 
 up your payments; you were to lose the 
 land?" Ah! Can you not see in what I 
 
HOW I ELIMINATED FEAR 31 
 
 have written above, the answer to these 
 questions? I am a child of the King of 
 Wisdom and Love. He has planned my 
 life. He plans ever wisely and well. // / 
 am to lose I will lose joyfully, gladly, as well 
 as bravely, for I can never lose. "I" am 
 the important thing; the land and my plans 
 are nothing but temporary and insignificant, 
 compared with myself. 
 
 So I have no fear none whatever. 
 Love has overcome fear; I am fearless and 
 unafraid, because I love and am beloved 
 of the Supreme Power of the Universe. 
 
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