Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct was a book published in 1859 by Samuel Smiles. Contents Preface Introduction to the First Edition Descriptive Contents I. Self-Help-National and Individual II. Leaders of Industry-Inventors and Producers III. Three Great Potters-Palissy, Bottgher, Wedgwood IV. Application and Perseverance V. Helps and Opportunities-Scientific Pursuits VI. Workers in Art VII. Industry and the Peerage VIII. Energy and Courage IX. Men of Business X. Money-Its Use and Abuse XI. Self-Culture-Facilities and Difficulties XII. Example-Models XIII. Character-the...

Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism," and it raised Smiles to celebrity status almost overnight.

Men of Invention and Industry is a collection of short biographies of famous inventors and industrialists written in the late 19th century.

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Men of Invention and Industry is a collection of short biographies of famous inventors and industrialists written in the late 19th century.

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This is a self help book focusing on developing character within ones self. Most of what Smiles writes about is still very relevant to today's character building. This is a great book that deals with lots of aspects in life. Samuel Smiles puts all his knowledge and wisdom in this book in which you feel you are reading "books" not one book. His arguments about the rise and fall of societies are impressive. He shows a deep understanding about the human being which gives his book a soul that will not die. "Character" will help you not only become a better person, but recognize the traits of...

I have had pleasure in editing this little book, not only because it is the work of my youngest son, but also because it contains the results of a good deal of experience of life under novel aspects, as seen by young, fresh, and observant eyes.How the book came to be written is as follows: The boy, whose two years' narrative forms the subject of these pages, was at the age of sixteen seized with inflammation of the lungs, from which he was recovering so slowly and unsatisfactorily, that I was advised by London physicians to take him from the business he was then learning in Yorkshire, and...