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HOW TO GET ON IN THE WORLD; or, A LADDER TO PRACTICAL SUCCESS.
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by MAJOR A. R. CALHOUN.
PUBLISHED BY THE CHRISTIAN HERALD, Louis KLOPSCH, Proprietor,
BIBLE HOUSE, NEW YORK.
Copyright 1895, BY LOUIS KLOPSCH.
I. What is Success?
II. The Importance of Character
III. Home Influences
IV. Association
V. Courage and Determined Effort
VI. The Importance of Correct Habits
VII. As to Marriage
VIII. Education as Distinguished from Learning
IX The Value of Experience
X. Selecting a Calling
XI. We Must Help Ourselves
XII. Successful Farming
XIII. As to Public Life
XIV. The Need of Constant Effort
XV. Some of Labor's Compensations
XVI. Patience and Perseverance
XVII. Success but Seldom Accidental
XVIII. Cultivate Observation and Judgment
XIX. Singleness of Purpose
XX. Business and Brains
XXI. Put Money in Thy Purse Honestly
XXII. A Sound Mind in a Sound Body
XXIII. Labor Creates the Only True Nobility
XXIV. The Successful Man is Self-Made
XXV. Unselfishness and Helpfulness
It has been said that "Nothing Succeeds Like Success." What isSuccess? If we consult the dictionaries, they will give us theetymology of this much used word, and in general terms the meaningwill be "the accomplishment of a purpose." But as the objects innearly every life differ, so success cannot mean the same thing toall men.
The artist's idea of success is very different from that of thebusiness man, and the scientist differs from both, as does thestatesman from all three. We read of successful gamblers, burglars orfreebooters, but no true success was ever won or ever can be won thatsets at defiance the laws of God and man.
To win, so that we ourselves and the world shall be the better forour having lived, we must begin the struggle, with a high purpose,keeping ever before our minds the characters and methods of the noblemen who have succeeded along the same lines.
The young man beginning the battle of life should never lose sight ofthe fact that the age of fierce competition is upon us, and that thiscompetition must, in the nature of things, become more and moreintense. Success grows less and less dependent on luck and chance.Preparation for the chosen field of effort, an industry thatincreasing, a hope that never flags, a patience that never growsweary, a courage that never wavers, all these, and a trust in God,are the prime requisites of the man who would win in this age ofspecialists and untiring activity.
The purpose of this work is not to stimulate genius, for genius islaw unto itself, and finds its compensation in its own originalproductions. Genius has benefited the world, without doubt, but toooften its life compensation has been a crust and a garret. Afterdeath, in