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- Samuel Smiles - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
(1812-1904). The Scottish author Samuel Smiles is best known for works reflecting his strong advocacy of material progress based on individual enterprise and free trade. In his popular didactic book Self-Help and a series of successors, he enshrined the basic Victorian values associated with the so-called "gospel of work."