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Excerpt from Beginning Life: A Series of Sermons to the Young
This is the popular View that is spreading like a contagion, and no land is more exposed than our own. We have no hereditary rulers our ancestors preserved us from ever waiting as sycophants in the court of kings but we satisfy the servile part of our natures by the abject homage we pay success. The smart man, the man who gets on, who does what he sets out to do in whatever way, is getting to be our national hero. Hereditary position and wealth count for less here than in England, but the self-made man, the man who lifts himself above his fellows and wrings a fort une from the hands of reluctant Fate, is the one before whom Liberty herself would uncap if her helmet were not riveted to her beautiful head.
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