Self Help & Duty (Timeless Wisdom Collection) - Softcover

Samuel Smiles (1812 – 1904), was a  Scottish author and government reformer who concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His masterpiece, 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. It inspired dozens of authors, including Orison Swett Marden. Besides Self Help, this volume contains Duty , a very hard to find book and last of his series, in which the reader will find, numerous examples given of the best and bravest men and women in the career of well doing.