The Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Service
Produced by Al Haines
The Investment of Influence
A Study of Social Sympathy and Service
Newell Dwight Hillis
Author of A Man's Value to Society, Foretokens of Immortality, Etc.
Fleming H. Revell Company
Copyright 1897
By Fleming H. Revell Company.
New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 125 North Wabash Ave. Toronto: 25 Richmond Street, W. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street
Many years have now passed since we first met. During all this time you have been an unfailing guide and helper. Your friendship has doubled life's joys and halved its sorrows. You have strengthened me where I was weak and weakened me where I was too strong. You have borne my burdens and lent me strength to bear my own.
Because I have learned from you in example, what I here teach in precept, I dedicate this book
—whether toiling in field or forum, in home or market place,
Newell Dwight Hillis
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NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO
DEDICATION
FOREWORD.
CONTENTS.
CHAP.
INFLUENCE, AND THE ATMOSPHERE MAN CARRIES.
CHAPTER I.
INFLUENCE, AND THE ATMOSPHERE MAN CARRIES.
LIFE'S GREAT HEARTS, AND THE HELPFULNESS OF THE HIGHER MANHOOD.
CHAPTER II.
LIFE'S GREAT HEARTS, AND THE HELPFULNESS OF THE HIGHER MANHOOD.
THE INVESTMENT OF TALENT AND ITS RETURN.
CHAPTER III.
THE INVESTMENT OF TALENT AND ITS RETURN.
VICARIOUS LIVES AS INSTRUMENTS OF SOCIAL PROGRESS.
CHAPTER IV.
VICARIOUS LIVES AS INSTRUMENTS OF SOCIAL PROGRESS.
GENIUS, AND THE DEBT OF STRENGTH.
CHAPTER V.
GENIUS, AND THE DEBT OF STRENGTH.
THE TIME ELEMENT IN INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER AND SOCIAL GROWTH.
CHAPTER VI.
THE TIME ELEMENT IN INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER AND SOCIAL GROWTH.
THE SUPREMACY OF HEART OVER BRAIN.
CHAPTER VII.
THE SUPREMACY OF HEART OVER BRAIN.
RENOWN THROUGH SELF-RENUNCIATION.
CHAPTER VIII.
RENOWN THROUGH SELF-RENUNCIATION.
THE GENTLENESS OF TRUE GIANTHOOD.
CHAPTER IX.
THE GENTLENESS OF TRUE GIANTHOOD.
THE THUNDER OF SILENT FIDELITY:
CHAPTER X.
THE THUNDER OF SILENT FIDELITY:
INFLUENCE, AND THE STRATEGIC ELEMENT IN OPPORTUNITY.
CHAPTER XI.
INFLUENCE, AND THE STRATEGIC ELEMENT IN OPPORTUNITY.
INFLUENCE, AND THE PRINCIPLE OF REACTION IN LIFE AND CHARACTER.
CHAPTER XII.
INFLUENCE, AND THE PRINCIPLE OF REACTION IN LIFE AND CHARACTER.
THE LOVE THAT PERFECTS LIFE.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE LOVE THAT PERFECTS LIFE.
HOPE'S HARVEST, AND THE FAR-OFF INTEREST OF TEARS.
CHAPTER XIV.
HOPE'S HARVEST, AND THE FAR-OFF INTEREST OF TEARS.
INDEX.