PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION.
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 .
FOOTNOTES
SELF HELP
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF
CONDUCT AND PERSEVERANCE.
By SAMUEL SMILES, LL.D.,
AUTHOR OF “LIVES OF THE ENGINEERS,” ETC.
“This above all,—To thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Then canst not then be false to any man.”
Shakespeare.
“Might I give counsel to any young man, I would say to him, try
to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life,
that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the
great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admired;
they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely and
worship meanly.”—W. M. Thackeray.
POPULAR EDITION.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1897.
