Self Help

By Smiles, Samuel

Book Id: WPLBN0000115688
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Self Help
Author:	Smiles, Samuel
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Ebook Library


Citation APA MLA Chicago Smiles, S. (n.d.). Self Help. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
Heaven helps those who help themselves is a well-tried maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of vast human experience. The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Whatever is done FOR men or classes, to a certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves; and where men are subjected to over-guidance and over- government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively helpless.

Table of Contents
· CHAPTER I - SELF-HELP - NATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL · CHAPTER II. - LEADERS OF INDUSTRY - INVENTORS AND PRODUCERS · CHAPTER III. - THE GREAT POTTERS - PALISSY, BOTTGHER, WEDGWOOD · CHAPTER IV. - APPLICATION AND PERSEVERANCE · CHAPTER V. - HELPS AND OPPORTUNITIES - SCIENTIFIC PURSUITS · CHAPTER VI. - WORKERS IN ART · CHAPTER VII. - INDUSTRY AND THE PEERAGE · CHAPTER VIII. - ENERGY AND COURAGE · CHAPTER IX. - MEN OF BUSINESS · CHAPTER X. - MONEY - ITS USE AND ABUSE · CHAPTER XI. - SELF-CULTURE - FACILITIES AND DIFFICULTIES · CHAPTER XII. - EXAMPLE - MODELS · CHAPTER XIII. - CHARACTER - THE TRUE GENTLEMAN