Project Gutenberg 2009-05-19 Public domain in the USA. 135 Hillis, Newell Dwight 1858 1929 A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character" by Newell Dwight Hillis is a philosophical text written in the late 19th century. The work delves into the importance of self-culture, character building, and one's contributions to society. The author examines the intrinsic worth of individuals, drawing connections between personal development and social value, positing that a person's moral qualities significantly impact their utility to the community. At the start of the text, Hillis introduces the concept of human beings as wasteful in both material and spiritual aspects, prompting a reflection on each person's value to society. He critiques societal tendencies to overlook individual potential and stresses the importance of self-awareness and moral integrity. He emphasizes that the richness of a person's life experience, knowledge, and cultivation of virtues is vital for societal progress. Hillis elucidates that rather than being merely economic units, individuals should seek to maximize their ethical and intellectual contributions to civilization. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Character Self-culture BF Text Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Psychiatry/Psychology 476585 464590 2024-09-12T11:10:58.884429 2023-09-13T03:47:43.351193 text/html text/html 457623 2021-01-05T02:54:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 168561 2021-01-05T02:54:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 252114 2024-09-12T11:11:09.016353 application/epub+zip 255755 2024-09-12T11:11:01.526437 application/epub+zip 255755 2024-09-12T11:11:00.069450 application/epub+zip 566131 2024-09-12T11:11:14.097316 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 516093 2024-09-12T11:11:07.572418 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 400578 2022-09-13T11:47:25.952961 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 403566 403442 2024-09-12T11:10:57.621468 2023-09-13T03:47:42.462241 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 403225 2021-01-05T02:54:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 158574 2021-01-05T02:54:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 403222 2021-01-05T02:54:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 158515 2021-01-05T02:54:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20167 2024-09-12T11:11:14.253300 application/rdf+xml 24423 2024-09-12T11:11:00.465406 image/jpeg 4570 2024-09-12T11:11:00.265409 image/jpeg 238035 2024-09-12T11:10:58.925432 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