Gold out of Straw
Peter Mandler: Samuel Smiles, 19 February 2004
Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character, Conduct and Perseverance
by Samuel Smiles, edited by Peter Sinnema.
Oxford, 387 pp., £7.99, October 2002,0 19 280176 7 Show More
by Samuel Smiles, edited by Peter Sinnema.
Oxford, 387 pp., £7.99, October 2002,
“... the view of the self offered by literature was still fairly oblique. It was that moral desperado Thomas Carlyle who first put the question squarely, in Sartor Resartus: ‘Who am I; the thing that can say "I” . . . Whence? How? Whereto?’ Taken up by countless young clerks and artisans, Carlyle nevertheless had ... ”