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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