The Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Service. Newell Dwight Hillis

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       Newell Dwight Hillis

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

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066242251

Table of Contents

       FOREWORD.

       INFLUENCE, AND THE ATMOSPHERE MAN CARRIES.

       CHAPTER I.

       LIFE'S GREAT HEARTS, AND THE HELPFULNESS OF THE HIGHER MANHOOD.

       CHAPTER II.

       THE INVESTMENT OF TALENT AND ITS RETURN.

       CHAPTER III.

       VICARIOUS LIVES AS INSTRUMENTS OF SOCIAL PROGRESS.

       CHAPTER IV.

       GENIUS, AND THE DEBT OF STRENGTH.

       CHAPTER V.

       THE TIME ELEMENT IN INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER AND SOCIAL GROWTH.

       CHAPTER VI.

       THE SUPREMACY OF HEART OVER BRAIN.

       CHAPTER VII.

       RENOWN THROUGH SELF-RENUNCIATION.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       THE GENTLENESS OF TRUE GIANTHOOD.

       CHAPTER IX.

       THE THUNDER OF SILENT FIDELITY

       CHAPTER X.

       INFLUENCE, AND THE STRATEGIC ELEMENT IN OPPORTUNITY.

       CHAPTER XI.

       INFLUENCE, AND THE PRINCIPLE OF REACTION IN LIFE AND CHARACTER.

       CHAPTER XII.

       THE LOVE THAT PERFECTS LIFE.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       HOPE'S HARVEST, AND THE FAR-OFF INTEREST OF TEARS.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       INDEX.

FOREWORD.

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      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. These chapters assert 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 emphasize the law of social sympathy and social service.

      Newell Dwight Hillis.

      CHAP.

      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 Principle of Reaction in Life and Character

      XIII The Love that Perfects Life

      XIV Hope's Harvest, and the Far-off Interest of Tears

INFLUENCE, AND THE ATMOSPHERE MAN CARRIES.

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