allow the maxims of a
low prudence, dinned daily into his ears in this money-getting age, to
repress the longings for a higher life; that the hand can never safely
reach higher than does the heart.

The author's aim has been largely through concrete illustrations which
have pith, point, and purpose, to be more suggestive than dogmatic, in
a style more practical than elegant, more helpful than ornate, more
pertinent than novel.

The author wishes to acknowledge valuable assistance from Mr. Arthur W.
Brown, of W. Kingston, R. I.

O. S. M.

43 BOWDOIN ST., BOSTON, MASS.

December 2, 1896.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. WANTED--A MAN

God after a _man_. Wealth is nothing, fame is nothing. _Manhood is
everything_.

II. DARE

Dare to live thy creed. Conquer your place in the world. All things
serve a brave soul.

III. THE WILL AND THE WAY

Find a way or make one. Everything is either pusher or pushed. The
world always listens to a man with a will in him.

IV. SUCCESS UNDER DIFFICULTIES

There is scarcely a great truth or doctrine but has had to fight its
way to recognition through detraction, calumny, and persecution.

V. USES OR OBSTACLES

The Great Sculptor cares little for the human block as such; it is the
statue He is after; and He will blast, hammer, and chisel with poverty,
hardships, anything to get out the man.

VI. ONE UNWAVERING AIM

Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Try to be somebody
with all your might.

VII. SOWING AND REAPING

What is put into the first of life is put into the whole of life.
_Start right_.

VIII. SELF-HELP

Self-made or never made. The greatest men have risen from the ranks.

IX. WORK AND WAIT

Don't risk a life's superstructure upon a day's foundation.

X. CLEAR GRIT

The goddess of fame or of fortune has been won by many a poor boy who
had no friends, no backing, or anything but pure grit and invincible
purpose to commend him.

XI. THE GRANDEST THING IN THE WORLD

Manhood is above all riches and overtops all titles; character is
greater than any career.

XII. WEALTH IN ECONOMY

"Hunger, rags, cold, hard work, contempt, suspicion, unjust reproach,
are disagreeable; but debt is infinitely worse than all."

XIII. RICH WITHOUT MONEY

To have nothing is not poverty. Whoever uplifts civilization is rich
though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.

XIV. OPPORTUNITIES WHERE YOU ARE