Improvement Era, Vol. 12

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Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 12: August, 1909I would like to consume a good deal of my time in giving an academic discussion on work, because I haven't much else on my mind, but you want some helpful suggestions. There is no man here who will challenge the statement that the man who works is the man who wins. Work makes the man, and the want of it, the fellow. I have often been impressed with a statement made by General Grant during the Civil war. I think the spirit behind it made him President of the United States, so, ambitious men note carefully: in February, 1862, Grant marched agamst Fort Donaldson. You remember, after three days sharp fighting he was asked by General Buckner what terms he would offer. Grant promptly answered, N 0 terms except unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move upon your works. Any man who moves upon the works con quers. That is the thing that made him win. When Grant set his face toward Richmond, and said he would fight it out on those lines, if it took all summer, as brave a man as Lee knew something was coming.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.