Putting the Most into Life [Illustration: _Copyright 1902 by Pach Bros._] Putting the Most Into Life By Booker T. Washington Author of “Up from Slavery” [Illustration] New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers Copyright, 1906, by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Published September, 1906 Composition and electrotype plates by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. They have been recast from the second to the third person, and many local allusions have been cut out. They are now sent out, in response to repeated requests, to a larger audience than that to which they were first spoken. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Tuskegee Institute, Alabama August 10, 1906 A Table of Contents I. Health a Requisite for Effective Living 1 II. Some of the Qualities Essential to the most Successful School Life 5 III. A Word to Prospective Teachers about putting the Most into their Work 9 IV. Industrial Efficiency an Aid to the Higher Life 17 V. Making Religion a Vital Part of Living 23 VI. On making our Race Life count in the Life of the Nation 30 Putting the Most into Life i Health a Requisite for Effective Living The individual who puts the most into life is the one who gets the most out of life. The first requisite for making life effective for one’s self or society is a sound body. There have been many people who in spite of weak bodies have enriched the world by noble thought and work. There has been a long line of physically weak men who have helped the world onward; but the rule holds that the best work has been done by men and women of vigorous health.