GREAT FORTUNES, AND HOW THEY WERE MADE; OR THE Struggles and Triumphs of our Self-Made Men. AUTHOR OF "PLANTING THE WILDERNESS," ETC., ETC. Numerous Illustrations, FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS BY G. F. & E. B. BENSELL. MAN, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but GEORGE MACLEAN, PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND BOSTON. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by E. HANNAFORD & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. ELECTROTYPED AT THE FRANKLIN TYPE FOUNDRY, CINCINNATI. ! "The physical industries of this world have two relations in them: one to the actor, and one to the public. Honest business is more really a contribution to the public than it is to the manager of the business himself. Although it seems to the man, and generally to the community, that the active business man is a self-seeker, and although his motive may be self-aggrandizement, yet, in point of fact, no man ever manages a legitimate business in this life, that he is not doing a thousand-fold more for other men than he is trying to do even for himself. in the economy of God's providence, every right and organized business is a beneficence and not a selfishness. not less is it so because the merchant, the mechanic publisher, the artist, think merely of their profit. They are in fact working more for others than they are for themselves. For, well And HENRY WARD BEECHER. the |