Self-Help, by Samuel Smiles

The phreno-physiological wave was of paramount importance for the emergence of the self-help movement in the nineteenth century. [...] Essential topics, such as rationalism, natural laws, education, health, hygiene, self-knowledge, and self-development, all contributed to the very concept of “self-help,” as can be found, for example, in the 1859 bestseller of that title by the Scottish social reformer Samuel Smiles (1812–1904).

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Self-Help