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Title: The Investment of Influence
A Study of Social Sympathy and Service

Author: Newell Dwight Hillis

Release Date: December 10, 2005 [EBook #17274]

Language: English

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The Investment of Influence

A Study of Social Sympathy and Service

Newell Dwight Hillis

Author of "A Man's Value to Society," "Foretokens of Immortality," Etc.

NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO

Fleming H. Revell Company

LONDON AND EDINBURGH

MCMXII

Copyright 1897

By Fleming H. Revell Company.

New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 125 North Wabash Ave. Toronto: 25
Richmond Street, W. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 100
Princes Street

DEDICATION

Many years have now passed since we first met. During all this time
you have been an unfailing guide and helper. Your friendship has
doubled life's joys and halved its sorrows. You have strengthened me
where I was weak and weakened me where I was too strong. You have
borne my burdens and lent me strength to bear my own.

Because I have learned from you in example, what I here teach in
precept, I dedicate this book

TO YOU

--whether toiling in field or forum,
in home or market place,

TO YOU--MY FRIEND

FOREWORD.

The glory of our fathers was their emphasis of the principle of
self-care and self-culture. Finding that he who first made the most of
himself was best fitted to make something of others, the teachers of
yesterday unceasingly plied men with motives of personal
responsibility. Influenced by the former generation, our age has
organized the principle of individualism into its home, its school, its
market-place and forum. By reason of the increase in gold, books,
travel and personal luxuries, some now feel that selfness is beginning
to degenerate into selfishness. The time, therefore, seems to have
fully come when the principle of self-care should receive its
complement through the principle of care for others. T