Buchdetails
Format
Taschenbuch
Seiten
188
Sprache
Englisch
Veröffentlicht
Nov 10, 2015
Verlag
CreateSpace
ISBN-10
1519234295
ISBN-13
9781519234292
Beschreibung
Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 - 16 April 1904), was a Scottish author and government reformer who campaigned on a Chartist platform. But he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His masterpiece, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism,"[1] and it raised Smiles to celebrity status almost overnight.