Project Gutenberg 2007-12-14 Public domain in the USA. 155 Alcott, William A. (William Andrus) 1798 1859 Alcott, William Andrus The Young Man's Guide Reading ease score: 66.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) "The Young Man's Guide" by William A. Alcott is a personal development guide written in the early 19th century. The book aims to provide young men with principles for character formation, emphasizing the importance of high ideals, industry, morality, and personal responsibility to become virtuous and contributing members of society. It serves as a manual that combines practical advice about managing life choices, work ethics, and personal habits. The opening of the work introduces the author's intentions and the book's purpose, revealing that Alcott initially aimed to compile existing literature on youth but found the need to create original content that aligns with his principles. He emphasizes the importance of having high aims in life and the different motives influencing young men, such as personal happiness, familial duty, and societal roles. Alcott begins establishing a framework for character formation, asserting that young men should seek to live lives marked by usefulness and moral integrity, suggesting that striving to excel will ultimately enhance their contributions to the community and the nation as a whole. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Conduct of life Young men BJ Text Sociology Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Psychiatry/Psychology Browsing: Sociology 553186 551822 2024-10-10T10:12:52.987654 2023-09-10T12:23:13.402854 text/html text/html 550087 2015-03-14T11:15:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 196001 2015-03-14T11:15:44 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 275245 2024-10-10T10:13:03.190618 application/epub+zip 283746 2024-10-10T10:12:56.557674 application/epub+zip 262654 2024-10-10T10:12:55.006663 application/epub+zip 499135 2024-10-10T10:13:08.042616 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 478023 2024-10-10T10:13:02.277633 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 454949 2022-09-11T07:28:51.435754 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 520593 520478 2024-10-10T10:12:51.635645 2023-09-10T12:23:12.264847 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 520351 2007-12-14T14:27:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 198056 2007-12-14T14:27:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 520362 2007-12-14T14:27:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 198058 2007-12-14T14:27:53 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21934 2024-10-10T10:13:08.220580 application/rdf+xml 13460 2024-10-10T10:12:55.670640 image/jpeg 3533 2024-10-10T10:12:55.379618 image/jpeg 268436 2024-10-10T10:12:53.037631 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia