Samuel Smiles
British writer
Died when: 91 years 115 days (1095 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 – 16 April 1904) 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.
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