Excerpt from The World's Fair City and Her Enterprising Sons To present a book of this kind, with character sketches of living men who are prominent factors in great public enterprises, might have been criticized fifty years ago as being somewhat in bad taste. But opinions like fashions are continually changing. The popular demand of today is to know the methods of successful men; and, in order to know them character must be investigated. "As soon as a stranger is introduced into any company one of the first questions which all wish to have answered is, How does that man get his living?" And if he has succeeded in adding something to the general wealth he becomes at once a sort of hero in the estimation of the American citizen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The World's Fair City and Her Enterprising Sons Thomas Carlyle finds the history of a nation or a period in the lives of its great men; the rulers, the warriors, the scholars and reformers, make and direct national and world - movements; but other writers find in the existing conditions of a time, the power that produces the leading minds and actors and gives shaping to what they do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.