ECLECTIC SCHOOL READINGS

STORIES FROM LIFE

A BOOK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

BY ORISON SWETT MARDEN

AUTHOR OF "ARCHITECTS OF FATE," "RUSHING TO THE FRONT," "WINNING
OUT," ETC, AND EDITOR OF "SUCCESS"





PREFACE


To make a life, as well as to make a living, is one of the supreme
objects for which we must all struggle. The sooner we realize what
this means, the greater and more worthy will be the life which we
shall make.

In putting together the brief life stories and incidents from
great lives which make up the pages of this little volume, the
writer's object has been to show young people that, no matter how
humble their birth or circumstances, they may make lives that will
be held up as examples to future generations, even as these
stories show how boys, handicapped by poverty and the most
discouraging surroundings, yet succeeded so that they are held up