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than does the heart.
The author's aim has been largely through concrete illustrations which have pith, point, and purpose, to be more suggestive than dogmatic, in a style more practical than elegant, more helpful than ornate, more pertinent than novel.
The author wishes to acknowledge valuable assistance from Mr. Arthur W. Brown, of W. Kingston, R. I.
O. S. M.
43 BOWDOIN ST., BOSTON, MASS.
December 2, 1896.

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
I.
WANTED--A MAN
God after a man. Wealth is nothing, fame is nothing. Manhood is everything.
II. DARE
Dare to live thy creed. Conquer your place in the world. All things serve a brave soul.
III. THE WILL AND THE WAY
Find a way or make one. Everything is either pusher or pushed. The world always listens to a man with a will in him.
IV. SUCCESS UNDER DIFFICULTIES
There is scarcely a great truth or doctrine but has had to fight its way to recognition through detraction, calumny, and persecution.
V. USES OR OBSTACLES
The Great Sculptor cares little for the human block as such; it is the statue He is after; and He will blast, hammer, and chisel with poverty, hardships, anything to get out the man.
VI. ONE UNWAVERING AIM
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Try to be somebody with all your might.
VII. SOWING AND REAPING
What is put into the first of life is put into the whole of life. Start right.
VIII. SELF-HELP
Self-made or never made. The greatest men have risen from the ranks.
IX. WORK AND WAIT
Don't risk a life's superstructure upon a day's foundation.
X. CLEAR GRIT
The goddess of fame or of fortune has been won by many a poor boy who had no friends, no backing, or anything but pure grit and invincible purpose to commend him.
XI. THE GRANDEST THING IN THE WORLD
Manhood is above all riches and overtops all titles; character is greater than any career.
XII. WEALTH IN ECONOMY
"Hunger, rags, cold, hard work, contempt, suspicion, unjust reproach, are disagreeable; but debt is infinitely worse than all."
XIII. RICH WITHOUT MONEY
To have nothing is not poverty. Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
XIV. OPPORTUNITIES WHERE YOU ARE
"How speaks the present hour? Act." Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.
XV. THE MIGHT OF LITTLE THINGS
There is nothing small in a world where a mud-crack swells to an Amazon, and the stealing of a penny may end on the scaffold.
XVI. SELF-MASTERY
Guard your weak point. Be lord over yourself.

LIST OF PORTRAITS.
CHAP.
I. Phillips Brooks . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece II. Oliver Hazard Perry III. Walter Scott IV. William Hickling Prescott V. John Bunyan VI. Richard Arkwright VII. Victor Hugo VIII. James A. Garfield (missing from book) IX. Thomas Alva Edison X. Andrew Jackson XI. John Greenleaf Whittier (missing from book) XII. Alexander Hamilton XIII. Ralph Waldo Emerson XIV. Thomas Jefferson XV. Louis Agassiz XVI. James Russell Lowell

ARCHITECTS OF FATE.
CHAPTER I.
WANTED--A MAN.
"Wanted; men: Not systems fit and wise, Not faiths with rigid eyes, Not wealth in mountain piles, Not power with gracious smiles, Not even the potent pen: Wanted; men."
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man.--JEREMIAH.
All the world cries, Where is the man who will save us? We want a man! Don't look so far for this man. You have him at hand. This man,--it is you, it is I, it is each one of us! . . . How to constitute one's self a man? Nothing harder, if one knows not how to will it; nothing easier, if one wills it.--ALEXANDRE DUMAS.
"'Tis life, not death for which we pant! 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant: More life and fuller, that we want."
I do not wish in attempting to paint a man to describe an air-fed, unimpassioned, impossible ghost. My eyes and ears are revolted by any neglect of the physical facts, the limitations of man.--EMERSON.
But nature, with a matchless hand, sends forth her nobly born, And laughs the paltry attributes of wealth and rank to scorn; She moulds with care a spirit rare, half human, half divine, And cries exulting, "Who can make a gentleman like mine?" ELIZA COOK.
"In a thousand cups of life," says Emerson, "only one is the right mixture. The fine adjustment of the existing elements, where the well-mixed man is born with eyes not too dull, nor too good, with fire enough and earth enough, capable of receiving impressions from all things, and not too susceptible, then no gift need be bestowed on him. He brings his fortune with him."
Diogenes sought with a lantern at noontide in ancient Athens for a perfectly honest man, and sought in vain. In the market place he once cried aloud, "Hear me, O men;" and, when a crowd collected around him, he said scornfully: "I