Details
Thrift
0,49 € |
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Verlag: | Page2Page |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 19.07.2019 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9782291075523 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 213 |
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Beschreibungen
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", and it raised Smiles to celebrity status almost overnight.