Produced by Al Haines
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.
Fleming H. Revell Company
Copyright 1897
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Many years have now passed since we first met. During all this timeyou have been an unfailing guide and helper. Your friendship hasdoubled life's joys and halved its sorrows. You have strengthened mewhere I was weak and weakened me where I was too strong. You haveborne my burdens and lent me strength to bear my own.
Because I have learned from you in example, what I here teach inprecept, I dedicate this book
—whether toiling in field or forum, in home or market place,
The glory of our fathers was their emphasis of the principle ofself-care and self-culture. Finding that he who first made the most ofhimself was best fitted to make something of others, the teachers ofyesterday unceasingly plied men with motives of personalresponsibility. Influenced by the former generation, our age hasorganized the principle of individualism into its home, its school, itsmarket-place and forum. By reason of the increase in gold, books,travel and personal luxuries, some now feel that selfness is beginningto degenerate into selfishness. The time, therefore, seems to havefully come when the principle of self-care should receive itscomplement through the principle of care for others. These chaptersassert the debt of wealth to poverty, the debt of wisdom to ignorance,the debt of strength to weakness. If "A Man's Value to Society"affirms the duty of self-culture and character, these studies emphasizethe law of social sympathy and social service.
Newell Dwight Hillis.
I Influence, and the Atmosphere Man Carries
II Life's Great Hearts, and the Helpfulness of the Higher Manhood
III The Investment of Talent and Its Return
IV Vicarious Lives as Instruments of Social Progress
V Genius, and the Debt of Strength
VI The Time Element in Individual Character and Social Growth
VII The Supremacy of Heart Over Brain
VIII Renown Through Self-Renunciation
IX The Gentleness of True Gianthood
X The Thunder of Silent Fidelity: a Study of the Influence of Little Things
XI Influence, and the Strategic Element in Opportunity
XII Influence, and the Pr