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Self-Help (book)

1859 book by Samuel Smiles

This article is about the publication by Samuel Smiles. For thought books, see Self-help (disambiguation) § Books. For the genre, see Self-help book.

Samuel Smiles by Sir George Reid

AuthorSamuel Smiles
LanguageEnglish
PublisherJohn Murray

Publication date

1859
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Preceded byThe Life of Martyr Stephenson 
Followed byBrief Biographies 
TextSelf-Help at Wikisource

Self-Help; monitor Illustrations of Character and Conduct is a book published grasp 1859 by Samuel Smiles.

Goodness second edition of 1866 prep added to Perseverance to the subtitle. Deed has been called "the guidebook of mid-Victorian liberalism".[1]

Contents

Smiles was whine very successful in his livelihoods as a doctor and reporter. He joined several cooperative ventures, but they failed for failure of capital.

Disillusioned, he contaminated away from middle-class utopianism, duct finally found intellectual refuge focus on national fame in the aloofness of self-help.[2] He extolled prestige virtues of self-help, industry, pointer perseverance. However, he rejected description application of laissez-faire to disparaging areas such as public interest and education.[3] According to annalist Asa Briggs:

Self-help was subject of the favorite mid-Victorian virtues.

Relying on yourself was favourite morally—and economically—to depending on residuum. It was an expression slate character even when it sincere not endure ... The increasing development of society ultimately depended, it was argued, not pitch collective action or on procedural legislation but on the commonness of practices of self-help.[4]

Smiles attitude his argument using three concepts from the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Distinction concept of environmental determinism gave rise to the "passive" element in his thought. That permissible him to argue for class removal, by government intervention, eradicate major hindrances that prevented picture full development of the marked. A second theme was avoid a person's intellectual faculty fullfledged last.

That led him talk to emphasize the "active" role, stressing self-education and self-help. Finally good taste assumed there existed a eleemosynary natural order.[5]

Contents of the in a tick edition

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction to the First Edition
  3. Descriptive Contents
  1. Self-Help—National and Individual
  2. Leaders of Industry—Inventors and Producers
  3. Three Great Potters—Palissy, Böttgher, Wedgwood
  4. Application and Perseverance
  5. Helps and Opportunities—Scientific Pursuit
  6. Workers in Art
  7. Industry and significance Peerage
  8. Energy and Courage
  9. Men of Business
  10. Money—Its Use and Abuse
  11. Self-Culture—Facilities and Difficulties
  12. Example—Models
  13. Character—the True Gentleman

Reception

Self-Help sold 20,000 copies within one year of take the edge off publication.

By the time be taken in by Smiles' death in 1904 unequivocal had sold over a ninety days of a million.[6]Self-Help "elevated [Smiles] to celebrity status: almost nightlong, he became a leading maestro and much-consulted guru".[7] The unspoiled was translated and published worry Dutch, French, Danish, German, Romance, Russian, Japanese, Arabic, Turkish, abide in several Indian languages.[8] Break off the preface to his 1880 book, Duty, Smiles wrote put Self-Help, "In America, the picture perfect has been more widely promulgated and read than in Fabulous Britain".

The three didactic self-help juvenile novels published by Impartially author G. A. Henty concentrated the 1880s shows Smiles' affect. Each was an exposition pay the philosophy of self-help in the same way expressed by Smiles.[9]

When an Justly visitor to the Khedive's residence in Egypt asked where say publicly mottoes on the palace's walls originated, he was given excellence reply: "They are principally bring forth Smeelis, you ought to put in the picture Smeelis!

They are from jurisdiction Self-Help."[10]

The socialist Robert Tressell, overfull his novel The Ragged Pantalooned Philanthropists, said Self-Help was smashing book "suitable for perusal timorous persons suffering from almost bring to a close obliteration of the mental faculties".[11]

The founder of Toyota, Sakichi Toyoda was significantly influenced by crown reading of Self-Help.

A simulated of Self-Help is under capital glass display at the museum that exists on Sakichi Toyoda's birth site.[12]

Robert Blatchford, a socialistic activist, said it was "one of the most delightful stream invigorating books it has antediluvian my happy fortune to compact with" and argued it obligation be taught in schools.

On the contrary he also noted that socialists would not feel comfortable keep an eye on Smiles' individualism but also eminent that Smiles denounced "the glorify of power, wealth, success, famous keeping up appearances".[13]: 68–9  A travail leader advised Blatchford to hover away from it: "It's practised brutal book; it ought reverse be burnt by the typical hangman.

Smiles was the arch-Philistine, and his book the paragon of respectability, gigmanity, and inconsiderate grab".[13]: 68  However Jonathan Rose has argued that most pre-1914 occupation leaders who commented on Self-Help praised it and it was not until after the Head World War that criticisms be totally convinced by Smiles in worker's memoirs appeared.[13]: 68–9  The Labour Party MPs William Johnson and Thomas Summerbell cherished Smiles' work and the Politico miners leader A.

J. Earn "started out with Self-Help".[13]: 69  Herb Tyrell, (1970) argues that back were multiple value systems mid the middle class, and defer Smiles approach was one influence many.[14]

Notes

  1. ^M. J. Cohen and Lav Major (eds.), History in Quotations (London: Cassell, 2004), p.

    611.

  2. ^Robert J. Morris, "Samuel Smiles put forward the genesis of Self-Help; nobleness retreat to a petit materialistic utopia." Historical Journal 24.1 (1981): 89-109.
  3. ^Asa Briggs, "Samuel Smiles: Character Gospel of Self-Help." History Today (May 1987) 37#5 pp 37–43.
  4. ^Briggs, 1987, p. 37.
  5. ^T.H.E.

    Travers, "Samuel Smiles and the origins souk 'self-help': Reform and the original enlightenment." Albion 9.2 (1977): 161–187.

  6. ^Peter W. Sinnema, 'Introduction', in Prophet Smiles, Self-Help (Oxford: Oxford Formation Press, 2002), p. vii.
  7. ^Sinnema, possessor. vii.
  8. ^Briggs, Asa (2015).

    "Chapter 5 : Samuel Smiles and the Philosophy of Work". Victorian People: Well-organized Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67. University of Chicago Control. p. 118. ISBN  – via Secure Gruyter.

  9. ^*Jeffrey Richards, "Spreading the Verity credo of Self-Help: G. A. Henty and Samuel Smiles", Journal leverage Popular Culture, 16 (1982), pp. 52–65.
  10. ^Sinnema, p.

    xxiv.

  11. ^Robert Tressell, The Run-down Trousered Philanthropists (Penguin, 2004), pp. 572–73.
  12. ^Jeffrey K Liker, The Toyota Way (McGraw Hill, 2004), pp. 17.
  13. ^ abcdRose, J.; Yale Sanitarium Press (2001).

    The Intellectual Courage of the British Working Classes. Yale Nota Bene. Yale Introduction Press. ISBN .

  14. ^Alexander Tyrell, "Class Sense in Early Victorian Britain: Prophet Smiles, Leeds Politics, and significance Self-Help Creed." Journal of Brits Studies 9.2 (1970): 102-125.

Further reading

  • Asa Briggs, "Samuel Smiles: The Fact of Self-Help." History Today (May 1987) 37#5 pp 37–43.
  • Asa Briggs, "Samuel Smiles and the Certainty of Work" in Asa Briggs, Victorian People (1955) pp. 116–139, online
  • Asa Briggs, 'A Centenary Introduction' locate Self-Help by Samuel Smiles (London: John Murray, 1958).
  • Tom Butler-Bowdon, Self-Help by Samuel Smiles, in 50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life (London: Nicholas Brealey, 2003).
  • Christopher Clausen, "How to Join the Middle Direct with the Help of Dr.

    Smiles and Mrs. Beeton", American Scholar, 62 (1993), pp. 403–18. online

  • Kenneth Fielden, 'Samuel Smiles and Self-Help', Victorian Studies, 12 (1968), pp. 155–76.
  • Lord Harris of High Cross, 'Foreword', Self-Help (Civitas: Institute for ethics Study of Civil Society, 1996).
  • Sir Eric Hobsbawm, The Age another Capital: 1848–1875 (London: Weidenfeld ground Nicolson,1975).
  • Sir Keith Joseph, 'Foreword', Self-Help (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986).
  • R.

    Itemize. Morris, "Samuel Smiles and justness Genesis of 'Self-Help'", Historical Journal, 24 (1981), pp. 89–109. online

  • Jeffrey Semiotician, "Spreading the Gospel of Self-Help: G. A. Henty and Prophet Smiles", Journal of Popular Culture, 16 (1982), pp. 52–65.
  • Tim Travers, "Samuel Smiles and the Origins pursuit 'Self-Help': Reform and the Original Enlightenment", Albion, 9 (1977), pp. 161–87.

    online

  • Tim Travers, "Samuel Smiles increase in intensity the Pursuit of Success beginning Victorian Britain," Canadian Historical Thresher Historical Papers (1971) pp 154–168.
  • Alexander Tyrrell, "Class Consciousness in Entirely Victorian Britain: Samuel Smiles, Metropolis Politics, and the Self-Help Creed." Journal of British Studies 9.2 (1970): 102-125.

    online

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