References
“SELF-CULTURE and PERFECTION OF CHARACTER.
Including the management of youth. By O.S. Fowler. 12mo. Price, 50 cents. New York: Fowlers & Wells.
‘SELF-MADE OR NEVER MADE’ IS THE MOTTO. The popularity of this book may be judged of when we state that it has already passed through SEVEN EDITIONS, and continues to grow in favor with the public. Its spirit is eminently hopeful and progressive. A single paragraph from the preface illustrates this point:-
‘IMPROVEMENT is the practical watch-word of the age. Since the Revolution, men have probably made more numerous inventions and discoveries in machinery, agriculture, and the means of human comfort and luxury, than ever before since the Creation.”
– The American Phrenological Journal and Repository of Science, Literature and General Intelligence, Volumes 13-14, Fowler & Wells, 1851, page 67
“Self-Culture and Perfection of Character, including the Management of Youth. By O.S. Fowler. Price, 75 cents. Postage, 15 cents.
This work explains the nature of the feelings, including the social, selfish, and moral, and shows how to train the disposition, and develop those faculties that are weak, and restrain those that are strong.”
– ibid., page 120
