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A Man's Value to Society
By NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS
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A Man's Value to Society
Studies in Self-Culture and Character
Newell Dwight Hillis Author of "The Investment of Influence," "Foretokens of Immortality," etc.
"_Spread wide thy mantle while the gods rain gold._" --FROM THE PERSIAN.
TWENTY-FIFTH EDITION
Chicago New York Toronto Fleming H. Revell Company MCMII
Copyright, 1896, by Fleming H. Revell Company
Copyright, 1897, by Fleming H. Revell Company
_TO MY WIFE_
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I The Elements of Worth in the Individual 9
II Character: Its Materials and External Teachers 33
III Aspirations and Ideals 55
IV The Physical Basis of Character 77
V The Mind and the Duty of Right Thinking 99
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Man's Value to Society by Newell Dwight Hillis
- 2: His recklessness blows up engines
- 3: Statisticians reckon the average man's value at $600 a year
- 4: Some staves are sound and solid
- 5: But rugged common sense is sanity of nerve and brain
- 6: In the final analysis it is ignorance that wastes
- 7: How the misfits of life affect man's value
- 8: Disobedience to law of fire or water or acid is death
- 9: Hath wrought their destruction
- 10: Sow an act and you reap a habit
- 11: Thenceforth he lifts up the axe upon the tree
- 12: Slowly these laws mature manhood
- 13: And by duties that are irksome
- 14: He dwelt amid the solitude of the sand hills around Sinai
- 15: Making up what prosperity lacks
- 16: They flash a splendor past our eyes
- 17: And ideals lure to the long voyage
- 18: And there unveiled Achilles as the ideal Greek
- 19: Finds his growth in manhood threatened
- 20: Then is the luster of life all dimmed
- 21: But bankrupt toward the unseen realm
- 22: Mysterious ideals throb and throb within
- 23: Therefore my age is as a lusty winter
- 24: Memorable forever the little room where Milton wrote
- 25: For us the story of the ascent of the body
- 26: But quite willing to have come up directly from the clod
- 27: Savages in the tropics are torpid and without progress
- 28: Mental brightness gives facial illumination
- 29: And nature's handwriting goes ever on
- 30: Eloquence textures all immortal
- 31: How marvelous would be these exhalations
- 32: Wondrous the power of the loom newly invented
- 33: Chillingworth stood forth in middle life a thoughtful
- 34: The oblong into the triangular
- 35: His thoughts clove an open pathway through the sky
- 36: With their lustrous and immortal beauty
- 37: Ideas into intellectual philosophies
- 38: With schoolroom and church and library
- 39: Who could recite the entire Iliad and Odyssey
- 40: What sacred stimulus will fall upon memory
- 41: And bids them reflect that maturity
- 42: Memphis was gloriously attractive
- 43: Because he foresaw the day of final triumph
- 44: Things beautiful upon another shelf
- 45: Suddenly his imagination transformed the leaf
- 46: Multitudes are doomed to delve and dig
- 47: When the roses fall on Faust they heal his wounds
- 48: Full oft the next step promises the precipice
- 49: Beholding Him who is invisible
- 50: When Schiller met Goethe every latent talent awakened
- 51: With an enthusiasm for invention
- 52: The patriot had fallen in battle
- 53: Had Ali Hafed dug in his own garden
- 54: Silas Marner was the victim of blackest ingratitude
- 55: Enthusiastic devotion to the divine laws
- 56: Surrounded by applauding multitudes
- 57: From AEschylus and Sophocles to Channing and Webster
- 58: Jean Valjean was an escaped convict
- 59: Tito had no conscience toward Romola
- 60: How does the soul revolt from iniquity
- 61: Some men are conscientious toward Sunday
- 62: Men were very conscientious toward absolution
- 63: Sometimes conscience affects only the feelings
- 64: Oration on Wendell Phillips by George Wm
- 65: But the outer shapelessness concealed the inner symmetry
- 66: Soon the vision led him to the platform of Faneuil Hall
- 67: Harriet Tubman toiled at night
- 68: The vision shone clearly for Channing
- 69: In these hours the soul scoffs at sordid things
- 70: Because he was always a scholar
- 71: Not the peevishness of an evening
- 72: For you I will decipher the monuments
- 73: Had told Southey of their innermost dreams
- 74: Making each infant acorn ready against the long winter
- 75: Like some Nile feeding many civilizations
- 76: How the lily sucks whiteness out of the slough
- 77: You talk of the scythe of time and the tooth of time
- 78: Chances to touch any thread of the web
- 79: And mastery in each department seems possible
- 80: While the shrub attains its end by automatic processes
- 81: Gilded iniquity the attitude of uncompromising hostility
- 82: Cut down the vineyards and orchards
- 83: It can allay strife or whet the keen edge of hatred
- 84: They mould the trademark in steel
- 85: Disease and death foretell their story in the hectic flush
- 86: But the kodak was awake and at work
- 87: What grievous marks were in poor Coleridge
- 88: Give the rein to appetite and passion
- 89: When the mob poured through the streets
- 90: The love of other planets secures stability
- 91: Who have become Dead Seas of accumulated treasure
- 92: And through self reliance grew great
- 93: And in isolation had time to store up his mental treasure
- 94: Our nation has loved not wisely
- 95: Emulating Livingstone in self denying service
- 96: 106Distribution of ability in U
- 97: 304Elements of worth in individual
- 98: 131 influenced by conscience
- 99: 212Teachers in life external world