Right Is Might

The title of this book refers to the might of the almighty creator. It does not refer to the military might of a nation. When you read Richard W. Wetherill's book, Right Is Might, you discover why right really is might, and how the laws of the universe make it so.

During his lifetime, Wetherill was often described as a person who was scores of years ahead of his time. Now members of his former study group think that his day has come. Increasingly, people understand that to succeed they must be rational and honest in accord with a natural law.

In 1929, Wetherill identified that law and how it controls people's behavior. It states: only right action gets right results. So when people have problems or trouble, their thinking and conversation and their behavior somehow contradict nature's law of absolute right.

In his book Wetherill explains the outcome that results from attempted violation of nature's behavioral law. As with all natural laws, this law is self-enforcing. Persons who deviate from it install in the recesses of their minds the wrong thinking they used to justify such behavior.

While Wetherill's book, Right Is Might, was written in 1950, its contents are as applicable now as when the book was written-perhaps even more so-and, because Wetherill could not find a publisher willing to go out on a limb for honesty and right action in 1950, the manuscript was simply filed.

After his death in 1989, the manuscript was found among his papers and was carefully edited to delete some dated material. The principles of right behavior he put into words are ageless and are all preserved.

Right Is Might tells the reader how rightness is achieved in a person's private and public life. It also describes the exciting developments in the lives of persons who had applied the formula for successful living.

Following Wetherill's suggestions they recognized the challenges of life and met them head on. They squared themselves with their consciences by making certain that every personal decision was rational and honest.

People who do that do not fear the future. They know the key to every virtue is honesty, so they wage an intentional campaign of unwavering honesty.

Adopting that dynamic formula for success benefits everybody on earth. It will benefit posterity. Before it benefits others, the person who adopts it is the first to benefit. Rational, honest thoughts and behavior is a formula not open to abuse. Nobody can cause trouble for others or for himself by using it. Not using it has been and is causing trouble for everybody.

The last paragraph of Right Is Might reminds us, "It is helpful to recognize that what is wrong in life is based on emotional unreality and is temporary. What is right in life is part of the reality that unfailingly endures, establishing the principle that Right Is Might."