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study of the different
characters, by the light of the author's opinion of the characteristics
essential to success, as shown in Department Fifth, will show why they
succeeded.
Let the reader follow each character separately, from childhood to
manhood, noting carefully the different changes in the career of each
and the motives which actuated and brought them about. If this book
shall serve to awaken dormant energies in ONE PERSON who might
otherwise have failed, we shall feel abundantly repaid. Doubtless, there
are others who are better qualified to write a treatise on such a subject;
nevertheless, we have done our best, and this done, we have attained
success.

CONTENTS.
ADAMS, JOHN, 129 ARTHUR, CHESTER A., 352 ASTOR, JOHN
JACOB, 85 BARNUM, PHINEAS T., 81 BEECHER, HENRY WARD,
404 BENNETT, JAMES GORDON, 77 BENTON, THOMAS HART,
248 BLAINE, JAMES G., 362 BONNER, ROBERT, 45 CALHOUN,
JOHN C., 209 CASS, LEWIS, 207 CHILDS, GEORGE W., 72

CLAFLIN, HORACE B., 26 CLAY, HENRY, 256 COOPER, PETER,
95 CORCORAN, WILLIAM W., 119 DISSTON, HENRY, 93
DODGE, WILLIAM E., 27 DOUGLASS, STEPHEN A., 267 DREW,
DANIEL, 11 EDISON, THOMAS A., 476 EVERETT, EDWARD, 328
FAIR, JAMES G., 54 FARGO, WILLIAM G., 48 FIELD, CYRUS W.,
467 FILLMORE, MILLARD, 281 FLOOD, JAMES C., FRANKLIN,
BENJAMIN, 429 FULTON, ROBERT, 436 GARFIELD, JAMES A.,
342 GIRARD, STEPHEN, 106 GOODYEAR, CHARLES, 457
GOULD, JAY, 30 GRANT, ULYSSES S., 299 GREELEY, HORACE,
61 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, 179 HANCOCK, WINFIELD S., 293
HARPER, JAMES, 90 HAYNE, ROBERT Y., 216 HOE, RICHARD
M., 454 HOWE, JR., ELIAS, 444 JACKSON, ANDREW, 237
JACKSON, STONEWALL, 303 JEFFERSON, THOMAS, 168
JOHNSON, ANDREW, 338 LAW, GEORGE, 101 LAWRENCE,
ABBOTT, 271 LAWRENCE, AMOS, 21 LEE, ROBERT E., 306
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, 312 LOGAN, JOHN A., 357 LONGWORTH,
NICHOLAS, 43 MACKAY, JOHN W., 52 MADISON, JAMES, 184
MARSHALL, JOHN, 175 MCCLELLAN, GEORGE B., 297 MILLS,
DARIUS O., 103 MONROE, JAMES, 200 MORSE, PROFESSOR S.
F. B., 462 PALMER, POTTER, 88 PEABODY, GEORGE, 116
PULLMAN, GEORGE, 473 RALSTON, WILLIAM G., 112
ROTHSCHILD, NATHAN MAYER, 122 SAGE, RUSSELL, 14
SEWARD, WILLIAM H., 204 SEYMOUR, HORATIO, 289 SINGER,
ISAAC M., 451 STANTON, EDWIN M., 332 STEPHENS,
ALEXANDER H., 272 STEPHENSON, GEORGE, 421 STEWART,
ALEXANDER T., 39 TAYLOR, MOSES, 110 TILDEN, SAMUEL J.,
396 VAN BUREN, MARTIN, 263 VANDERBILT, CORNELIUS, 16
VASSAR, MATHEW, 84 WANNAMAKER, JOHN, 37 WATT,
JAMES, 415 WEBSTER, DANIEL, 218 WEED, THURLOW, 69
WILSON, HENRY, 310 WHITNEY, ELI, 435
WHY SOME SUCCEED WHILE OTHERS FAIL.
SUCCESS AND FAILURE, 481 CONCENTRATION OF EFFORT,
486 SELF-RELIANCE, 490 ECONOMY OF TIME, 495 CAUSES OF
FAILURE, 499

QUOTATIONS.
A man, to succeed, must possess the necessary equanimity of
temperament to conceive an idea, the capacity to form it into some
tangible shape, the ingenuity to put it into practical operation, the
ability to favorably impress others with its merits, and the POWER of
WILL that is absolutely necessary to force it to success.
--THOMAS A. SCOTT.
Labor rids us of three evils.--Tediousness, Vice and Poverty.
--CARLYLE.
"Never start upon an undertaking until you are sure it is practicable
and ought to be done, and then let nothing stand long in the way of
accomplishing that undertaking. It is better to deserve success than to
have it; few deserve it who do not attain it."
"There is no failure in this country for those whose personal habits are
good, and who follow some honest calling industriously, unselfishly,
and purely. If one desires to succeed, he must pay the price--WORK!"
In order to succeed, a man must have a purpose fixed, then let his
motto be VICTORY OR DEATH.
--HENRY CLAY.
"Be liberal but cautious; enterprising but careful."
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we
fall."
Fail!--Fail? In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright
manhood, there is no such word As--fail!--"RICHELIEU."
Benjamin Franklin has truly said: The road to wealth is as plain as the

road to mill.

DANIEL DREW.
Here is a great financier. A man of unusual ability; but who is no
exception to the rule, born poor. His success came by hard work and a
thorough mastery of his business. It is surprising how many Wall Street
operators began life on the farm. In the case of Daniel Drew, at the age
of only fifteen, matters were made worse by the death of his father.
At eighteen, he concluded to go to New York; but, after a discouraging
time of it, his money giving out, he was obliged to return to his home.
However, his trip did not prove a total failure, as subsequent events
show. While in the metropolis he heard that fat cattle could be sold
there at a profit over what he knew they could be bought for, at his
country home. He therefore resolved to go into the cattle