Character (Esprios Classics) - Smiles, Samuel

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Résumé :
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was a Scottish author and government reformer. Although he campaigned on a Chartist platform, 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 raised Smiles to celebrity status almost overnight. In 1837, he wrote articles for the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle and the Leeds Times, campaigning for parliamentary reform. In November 1838, Smiles was invited to become the editor of the Leeds Times, a position he accepted and filled until 1842....

Biographie:
Samuel Smiles, (1812-1904), autor escoc?s y reformador del gobierno. Promovi? la idea de que m?s progreso vendr?a de nuevas actitudes que de nuevas leyes, y sus ideas tuvieron efectos duraderos en el pensamiento pol?tico brit?nico. Smiles, uno de los 11 ni?os que se quedaron sin padre en 1832, aprendi? el significado de la autosuficiencia. Dej? la escuela a la edad de 14 a?os y se convirti? en aprendiz de un m?dico, para luego estudiar medicina en la Universidad de Edimburgo. M?s tarde abandon? la pr?ctica m?dica por el periodismo. Fue un ferviente defensor del progreso material basado en la empresa individual y el libre comercio. Su libro Ay?date, fue el resultado de una serie de conferencias sobre superaci?n personal impartidas a hombres j?venes. Se hab?an vendido 250.000 copias a finales de siglo y se tradujo ampliamente. Smiles escribi? muchos otros libros, principalmente biograf?as.

Sommaire:
Samuel Smiles was a British author and politician who lived from December 23, 1812, to April 16, 1904. While running for office on a Chartist platform, he pushed the idea that new attitudes, not new laws, would lead to more growth. In his most important book, Self-Help (1859), he urged people to be thrifty and said that most poverty was caused by bad habits. He also criticized materialism and a government that didn't do much. It changed the way people in Britain thought about politics for a long time and has been called the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism. Samuel Smiles of Haddington and Janet Wilson of Dalkeith had a son named Smiles. He was born in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. He was one of eleven children who lived. He wasn't a strict Reformed Presbyterian like his family was, but they were. He went to a nearby school and dropped out when he was 14. Dr. Robert Lewins taught him how to be a doctor. Because of this deal, Smiles was able to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1829. He learned more about politics there and became a strong backer of Joseph Hume. His father died in the cholera outbreak of 1832, but Smiles was able to keep studying because his mother paid for it....