Peale may have modified his position since he wrote this book, but the book is still in circulation and being read. And in that book it seems clear that his positive thinking is in the end merely a synonym for wishful thinking. The same is true of Mr. W. Clement Stone, the philanthropist and founder of “Positive Mental Attitudes,” who claims that “President Nixon would have been a soured, second-rate ex-politician if he had not thrown off his emotional immaturity by discovering PMA.” “We make supermen