Produced by Al Haines The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service Newell Dwight Hillis Author of "A Man's Value to Society," "Foretokens of Immortality," Etc. NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO Fleming H. Revell Company LONDON AND EDINBURGH MCMXII Copyright 1897 By Fleming H. Revell Company. New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 125 North Wabash Ave. Toronto: 25 Richmond Street, W. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street DEDICATION Many years have now passed since we first met. During all this time you have been an unfailing guide and helper. Your friendship has doubled life's joys and halved its sorrows. You have strengthened me where I was weak and weakened me where I was too strong. You have borne my burdens and lent me strength to bear my own. Because I have learned from you in example, what I here teach in precept, I dedicate this book TO YOU --whether toiling in field or forum, in home or market place, TO YOU--MY FRIEND FOREWORD. The glory of our fathers was their emphasis of the principle of self-care and self-culture. Finding that he who first made the most of himself was best fitted to make something of others, the teachers of yesterday unceasingly plied men with motives of personal responsibility. Influenced by the former generation, our age has organized the principle of individualism into its home, its school, its market-place and forum. By reason of the increase in gold, books, travel and personal luxuries, some now feel that selfness is beginning to degenerate into selfishness. The time, therefore, seems to have fully come when the principle of self-care should receive its complement through the principle of care for others. These chapters assert the debt of wealth to poverty, the debt of wisdom to ignorance, the debt of strength to weakness. If "A Man's Value to Society" affirms the duty of self-culture and character, these studies emphasize the law of social sympathy and social service. Newell Dwight Hillis. CONTENTS. CHAP. I Influence, and the Atmosphere Man Carries II Life's Great Hearts, and the Helpfulness of the Higher Manhood III The Investment of Talent and Its Return IV Vicarious Lives as Instruments of Social Progress V Genius, and the Debt of Strength VI The Time Element in Individual Character and Social Growth VII The Supremacy of Heart Over Brain VIII Renown Through Self-Renunciation IX The Gentleness of True Gianthood X The Thunder of Silent Fidelity: a Study of the Influence of Little Things XI Influence, and the Strategic Element in Opportunity XII Influence, and the Principle of Reaction in Life and Character XIII The Love that Perfects Life XIV Hope's Harvest, and the Far-off Interest of Tears INFLUENCE, AND THE ATMOSPHERE MAN CARRIES.