Pushing to the Front, or Success Under Difficulties: A Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All Who Are Struggling for Self-Elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Pushing to the Front: Or Success Under Difficulties, a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All, Who Are Struggling for Self-Elevation, Along the Paths of Knowledge, and of DutyAfter the author had worked for years on the original manuscript of "Pushing to the Front" it was entirely destroyed by fire; and it was with great difficulty that he reproduced it, as all of his notes, which he had been collecting for many years, were burned also.As he had never before written anything for publication, he expected that the rewritten manuscript, sent to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Company of Boston, would be declined, but they promptly accepted it and published twelve editions the first year. The book has probably gone through more than one hundred editions since.The author has received thousands of letters from people in nearly all parts of the world, telling how the book has aroused their ambition, changed their ideals and aims, increased their confidence, and how it has spurred them to the successful undertaking of what they before had thought impossible.Many of these letters have come from youths telling how it has encouraged them to return to school or college after having given up in despair; to go back to vocations which they had left in a moment of discouragement; enheartened to take up other dropped or neglected tasks with new hope and new ambition; and how the book has proved a turning point in their careers; the cause of their success.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.