Choice of pursuits, or, What to do, and why, describing seventy-five trades and professions, and the talents and temperaments required for each; also, how to educate, on phrenological principles, each man for his proper work : together with portraits and biographies of more than one hundred successful thinkers and workers / by Nelson Sizer.

  • Sizer, Nelson, 1812-1897.
Date:
1890 [1889]
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Credit: Choice of pursuits, or, What to do, and why, describing seventy-five trades and professions, and the talents and temperaments required for each; also, how to educate, on phrenological principles, each man for his proper work : together with portraits and biographies of more than one hundred successful thinkers and workers / by Nelson Sizer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    most of himself as a human being, and to place himself in snch relations to his life-pursuit as to secure the best possible success and to render to the community the highest degree of service; in short, to tell eveiy honest inquirer “ What to do, and why; and how to educate each man for his proper work.” In the author’s professional duties as a lecturer and in the appli- cation of mental science to practical life, during a period of mere than thirty years, the substance of the matter composing this vol- ume has been given to patrons in criticism, instruction, and advice; and he has reason to believe that many persons have been led thereby to the adoption of appropriate pursuits, to higher life purposes, and to a richer mental culture; and he earnestly hopes that many thousands may be inspired to the achievement of a better manhood and nobler success through the influence of these pages, long after the friendly hand that penned them shall have gone to its rest New York, July 1877. PUBLISHERS’ PREFACE ^^What Ought I to JJaf' and '‘'■How Should I he Educated for Duty?'’' are important questions. This hook deals with them pointedly, and may be read with profit by all successive generations. A story once read is dismissed. This book will bear fifty readings. Every page is full of instruction. Ho one, with a true iense of its value, would be without it.