Newell Dwight Hillis
The Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Service
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066242251
Table of Contents
INFLUENCE, AND THE ATMOSPHERE MAN CARRIES.
LIFE'S GREAT HEARTS, AND THE HELPFULNESS OF THE HIGHER MANHOOD.
THE INVESTMENT OF TALENT AND ITS RETURN.
VICARIOUS LIVES AS INSTRUMENTS OF SOCIAL PROGRESS.
GENIUS, AND THE DEBT OF STRENGTH.
THE TIME ELEMENT IN INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER AND SOCIAL GROWTH.
THE SUPREMACY OF HEART OVER BRAIN.
RENOWN THROUGH SELF-RENUNCIATION.
THE GENTLENESS OF TRUE GIANTHOOD.
THE THUNDER OF SILENT FIDELITY
INFLUENCE, AND THE STRATEGIC ELEMENT IN OPPORTUNITY.
INFLUENCE, AND THE PRINCIPLE OF REACTION IN LIFE AND CHARACTER.
HOPE'S HARVEST, AND THE FAR-OFF INTEREST OF TEARS.
FOREWORD.
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.
"I do not believe the world is dying for new ideas. A teacher has a high place amongst us, but someone is wanted here and abroad far more than a teacher. It is power we need, power that shall help us to solve our practical problems, power that shall help us to realize a high, individual, spiritual life, power that shall make us daring enough to act out all we have seen in vision, all we have learnt in principle from Jesus Christ."—Charles A. Berry.
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