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9780898755053
Life of George Stephenson
by Smiles, Samuel
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- ISBN-13: 9780898755053
- ISBN: 0898755050
- Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
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Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was a zealous advocate of material progress based on individual enterprise and free trade. From 1845 to 1866 he was engaged in railway administration, and in 1857 he published a life of the inventor and founder of the railways, George Stephenson. Best known for his didactic work Self-Help (1859), which, with its successors, Character (1871), Thrift (1875), and Duty (1880), enshrined the basic Victorian values associated with the "gospel of work."Smiles, Samuel is the author of 'Life of George Stephenson' with ISBN 9780898755053 and ISBN 0898755050.
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