Project Gutenberg 2007-12-14 Public domain in the USA. 374 Alcott, William A. (William Andrus) 1798 1859 Alcott, William Andrus The Young Man's Guide 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.) Reading ease score: 66.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Conduct of life Young men BJ Text Sociology Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Psychiatry/Psychology Browsing: Sociology Category: How To ... 553309 2025-06-10T05:26:27.880563 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 275318 2025-06-10T05:26:37.823505 application/epub+zip 283733 2025-06-10T05:26:31.238562 application/epub+zip 262640 2025-06-10T05:26:29.847566 application/epub+zip 499137 2025-06-10T05:26:42.580560 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 478023 2025-06-10T05:26:36.878555 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 454949 2022-09-11T07:28:51.435754 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 520593 2025-06-10T05:26:26.561586 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 20964 2025-06-10T05:26:42.736502 application/rdf+xml 13460 2025-06-10T05:26:30.408559 image/jpeg 3533 2025-06-10T05:26:30.125584 image/jpeg 268478 2025-06-10T05:26:27.928567 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia