Self-Help (book)

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Help yourself; with Illustration Character and Behavior is a book published in 1859 by Samuel Smiles. The second edition of 1866 added Perseverance to the subtitle. This has been called "the bible of medieval liberalism".

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Reception

Self-Help sold 20,000 copies within a year of publication. At the time of Smiles's death in 1904, it has sold over a quarter of a million. Self-Help "elevated [Smile] to celebrity status: almost overnight, he became a prominent and much-consulted teacher."

When an English visitor to the Khedive palace in Egypt asked where the motto on the palace wall came from, he was given a reply: "They are mainly from Smeelis, you must know Smeelis! They come from Self-Help !"

Robert Tressell, a socialist, in his novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, says Self-Help is a book that "is suitable to be read by people who suffer the total destruction of mental ability ".

The founder of Toyota Industries Co., Ltd., Sakichi Toyoda was significantly influenced by his reading on Self-Help . A copy of Self-Help is under the screen at the museum on Sakichi Toyoda's birthplace.

Robert Blatchford, a socialist activist, said it was "one of the most fun and refreshing books that has been my luck to meet" and argues that it should be taught in schools. But he also noted that the socialists would not be comfortable with Smiles individualism but also noted that Smiles denounced "worshiping power, wealth, success, and preserving performance". A labor leader suggested Blatchford to distance himself from it: "This is a brutal book, it must be burned by the general hangman.Smile is the arch-Philistine, and his book, apotheosis of honor, gigmanity, and selfish take." But Jonathan Rose argues that most pre-1914 labor leaders who commented on Self-Help praised him and not until after the Great War, criticism of Smiles in the worker's memoirs appeared. Labor MPs William Johnson and Thomas Summerbell admired the work of Smiles and Communist miner A. J. Cook "started with Self-Help ".

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Further reading

• Samuel Smiles, Original Text Self Help in Project Gutenberg
• Asa Briggs, 'Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work', Victorian People (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1955).
• Asa Briggs, 'A Centenary Introduction' to 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 Change Your Life (London: Nicholas Brealey, 2003 ).
• Christopher Clausen, 'How to Join the Middle Class with Dr. Smiles and Ny. Beeton ', American Scholar , 62 (1993), pp. 403-18.
• Kenneth Fielden, 'Samuel Smiles and Self-Help', Victorian Studies , 12 (1968), pp.Ã, 155-76.
• Lord Harris of the High Cross, 'Preface', Self-Help (Civitas: Lembaga Studi Masyarakat Sipil, 1996).
• Sir Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975).
• Sir Keith Joseph, 'Preface', Self Help (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986).
• R. J. Morris, 'Samuel Smiles and the Genesis of Self-Help ', Historical Journal , 24 (1981), p. 89-109.
• Jeffrey Richards, "Spreading the Gospel of Self Help: G. A. Henty and Samuel Smiles', Journal of Popular Cultures , 16 (1982), pp. 52-65.
• Tim Travers, 'Samuel Smiles and the Origins of "Self-Help": New Reform and Enlightenment', Albion , 9 (1977), pp.Ã, 161-87.

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