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About Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles was a British author and government reformer. Although he campaigned on a Chartist platform, he promoted the idea that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His primary work, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism" and had lasting effects on British political thought.
Everything about Samuel Smiles →- Occupation
- writer, journalist, biographer, philosopher
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- December 23, 1812
- Died
- April 16, 1904