Success

The articles embodied in this small book were written during the pressure of many other affairs and without any idea that they would be published as a consistent whole. It is therefore certain that the critic will find in them instances of a repetition of the central idea. This fact is really a proof of a unity of conception which justifies their publication in a collected form. I set out to ask the question "What is success in the affairs of the world-how is it attained and how can it be enjoyed?" I have tried with all sincerity to answer the question out of my own experience. In so doing I have strayed down many avenues of inquiry but all of them lead back to the central conception of success as some kind of temple that satisfies the mind of the ordinary practical man....See More