The book of man : readings on the path to manhood
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Let's bring back heroes -- Man in war -- Man at work -- Man in play, sports, and leisure -- Man in the polis -- Man with woman and children -- Man in prayer and reflection --

Let's bring back heroes -- Man in war. Profile : Donovan Campbell ; Saint Crispin's Day Speech by William Shakespeare ; Response to the Archbishop of Canterbury by Colin Powell ; "Character of the Happy Warrior" by William Wordsworth ; "The Campaigns of Alexander the Great" by Alexander the Great, told by Arrian, the Roman historian ; Profile : Joshua Marcellino ; "Concord hymn" by Ralph Waldo Emerson ; "This was their finest hour" by Winston Churchill ; David and Goliath : Samuel 17:1-58 ; Profile : Rick Rescorla ;Funeral Oration by Pericles ; "Before Action" by W. N. Hodgson ; "Battle is a Joyous Thing" by Jean de Brueil ; The Navy SEAL Creed ; Profile : Nathan Burckenthal ; From "Bivouac of the Dead" by Theodore O'Hara ; Profile : Red Falvey ; "Be Ye the Avengers of Noble Blood" by William the Conqueror ; Profile : Alvin York ; Remarks on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day by Ronald Reagan ; From The Apology by Plato ; From "The Soldier's Faith" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ; "Of Man" by Thomas Hobbes ; "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" by Winston Churchill ; Ares : Greek God of War by Homer ; Profile : John Leone ; From Beowulf by an unknown Saxon poet, translated by Francis B. Gummere ; "In Flanders Fields" by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae ; Horatius at the Bridge by Livy ; "Duty, Honor, Country" by General Douglas MacArthur ; War sonnets by Rupert Brooke ; Profile : Audie Murphy -- Man at work. Profile : Terry Toussaint ; "Work" by Eliza Cook ; "The Plough Boy" by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith ; "How Do You Tackle Your Work?" by Edgar A. Guest ; The Gift of God : Ecclesiastes 3:10-15 ; From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana ; The Parable of the Talents : Matthew 25:14-30 (also in Luke 19:12-28) ; "The Strenuous Life" by Theodore Roosevelt ; "No Man Is Happy If He Does Not Work" by Theodore Roosevelt ; Saving time by Seneca ; Profile : Incwell ; From Works and Days by Hesiod ; From The Sea Wolf by Jack London ; Profile : Coach Ken ; A Humorist's Confession by Mark Twain ; "Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; The Spiritual Value of Work by Mark Judge ; From The Future of the American Negro by Booker T. Washington ; From Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington ; From The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin ; Charmides by Plato ; Profile : George Gershwin ; Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier from American Patriot's Almanac by William J. Bennett and John T. Cribb ; From Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville ; Profile : Michel Faulkner ; Selections from Middlemarch by George Eliot ; The Four Chaplains of World War II from American Patriot's Almanac by William J. Bennett and John T. Cribb ; From Paradise Lost by John Milton ; From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus Washington Greely ; "Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey" ; Inaugural address at Edinburgh University by Thomas Carlyle ; On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by William Ellery Channing ; Profile : David Aikman ; Emerson on Labor by Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Some Fruits of Solitude by William Penn ; Selections from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius ; Pensées by Blaise Pascal --

Man in play, sports, and leisure. Profile : "Pistol" Pete Maravich ; "Do You Fear the Wind?" by Hamlin Garland ; "It is a Pleasant Day" by Peter Parley ; "The Answer" by Grantland Rice ; "Playing the Game" by anonymous ; From "The Quitter" by Robert W. Service ; Profile : Eddie Aikau ; From "The American Boy" by Theodore Roosevelt ; A President and His Leisure by Theodore Roosevelt ; Coin Collecting by the Numissmatist ; Coney Island by The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine ; A Nation's Pastime by A. G. Spalding ; "Leisure" by William Henry Davies ; On Gardening by Francis Bacon ; Finding Troy by Heinrich Schliemann ; A Father to His Son, Upon Leaving for Collete by John D. Swain ; Tragedy on K2 ; Abe Lincoln Wrestles Jack Armstrong by John G. Nicolay and John Hay ; From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy ; The Traffic Guard by Christopher Beach ; The Art of Fencing by Louis and Regis Senac ; A Day at the Ancient Olympic Games by Anacharsis of Scythia ; Learning Languages for Fun by Benjamin Franklin ; From "An Autumn Effect" by Robert Louis Stevenson ; Filling Days and Finding Relaxation by Pliny the Younger ; Angler Grover Cleveland by A. M. Stoddart ; Profile : Milan High School and the 1954 Indiana State Championship ; Leo Tolstoy the Chess Player by Edward Winter ; Profile : Cal Ripken Jr., the iron man of baseball ; In Defense of Sports by William J. Bennett ; Buster Douglas defeats Mike Tyson, Tokyo, 1990 ; The National Game by Charles A. Peverelly ; Practice make perfect ; Profile : Aaron Rodgers ; Little Bob's First Bass by Will H. Dilg ; Hunting the Grisly by Teodore Roosevelt ; 1980 U. S. ice hockey team miracle on ice ; On Leisure by Seneca ; The thrilla in Manila ; Prepared for a Rain by Will H. Dilg ; Profile : Mario Andretti ; Piers Paul Read's Alive : The Story of the Andes Survivors by William J. Bennett -- Man in the polis. "Not Yours to Give" by David Crockett ; Profile : Zuhdi Jasser ; The Athenian oath ; A Politician and a Hero by Richard J. Hinton ; From Politics by Aristotle ; "A Nation's Strength" by Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Profile : a Navy SEAL ; "Of the Beginning of Political Societies" by John Locke ; Profile : Dave Pereda ; National Greatness by Pericles ; "Love of Country" by Sir Walter Scott ; From De Officiis (On Duties) by Marcus Tullius Cicero ; "Power Tends to Corrupt" by Lord Acton ; Lectures and Miscellanies by Henry James ; Hávamál ; From A Man and His Money by Harvey Reeves Calkins ; From "Acres of Diamonds" by Russell Conwell ; The Duties of Citizenship by William Jennings Bryan ; From The Royal Art by William Jennings Bryan ; The Ethics of Politics by Bishop Charles B. Galloway ; "Duties of American Citizenship" by Theodore Roosevelt ; Profiles of law enforcement ; Reflections on the Revolution of France by Edmund Burke ; Civil and Political Association by Alexis de Tocqueville ; The Political Duties of Christian Men and Minsters by Rev. J. S. Smart ; From "The Capacity for Greatness" by Theodore Roosevelt ; Profile : Álvaro Uribe Vélez ; Good Citizenship by Grover Cleveland ; Good Citizenship Dependent Upon Great Citizens by William Jewett Tucker ; Cato the Younger by Plutarch ; Taking Command by George Washington ; From Arthur James Balfour by Bernard Alderson ; From Foundations of the Republic by Calvin Coolidge ; Duty by Horatio Kitchener ; Profile : Jaime Escalante ; A Story of Civic Improvement by Benjamin Franklin ; The Story of Cincinnatus by James Baldwin ; Compromise by Henry Clay Sr. ; Five Keys to Democratic Statesmanship by Paul Johnson "Hello, Freedom Man" by Ronald Reagan ; Choosing Just Men by Noah Webster ; Heroes of Science by Albert Ross Vail and Emily McClellan Vail ; "To Defend and Enjoy His Own" by Daniel Webster ; Profle : Marco Rubio ; Profile : Ray Sorensen and the Freedom Rock ; What You Can Do for Your Country by John F. Kennedy ; In Harm's Way for Others by George P. Little ; Irrationally Patriotic by G. K. Chesterton ; Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum address --

Man with woman and children. Profile : Chris Scott ; "When You Are Old" by W. B. Yeats ; "Down by the Salley Gardens" by W. B. Yeats ; Robert E. Lee by Orison Swett Marden ; "Love Among the Ruins" by Robert Browning ; Duff Cooper's letter to Diana, his future wife ; Leo Tolstoy's letter to his fiancée, Valeria Arsenev ; "A Father's Gift to His Son on His Becoming an Apprentice" by anonymous ; Advice to Boys by Rev. Lewis Johnston ; Profile : Nolan Ryan ; From She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ; Excerpt from Bleak House by Charles Dickens ; Two poems by Robert Browning ; From Don Juan by Lord Byron ; Penelope by Homer ; Telemachus by Homer ; George Washington to Martha ; Pierre Curie by Marie Curie ; "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe ; Antony and Cleopatra by John Dryden ; Abraham Lincoln and Grace Bedell ; Marcus Cato by Plutarch ; The Influence of a Father by John Stuart Mill ; The Farmer and His Sons by Aesop ; Things to Tell Your Children or Grandchildren by Charles Sykes ; Fatherhood by Ronald Reagan ; The Best Things in Life by Theodore Roosevelt ; Teddy Roosevelt with his Children by Ernest Ruse ; Jonathan Edwards with His Children by S. E. Dwight ; "On My First Sonne" by Ben Jonson ; "A Boy of Much Promise" by Calvin Coolidge ; "Bone of My Bones" : Genesis 2:19-24 ; Finding a good wife : Proverbs 31:10-31 ; From Sketches of Young Couples by Charles Dickens ; What is Love? by George Eliot ; True and False Manliness by James Freeman Clarke ; From Canal Boy to President by Horatio Alger ; Thomas Carlyle's Advice to Young Men by Thomas Carlyle ; Are You Well Bred? by The American Magazine ; Profile : David Gelernter ; Courtship and Matrimony by Rober Morris ; From Self-control, Its Kingship and Majesty by William George Jordan ; A Father's Legacy by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler ; "A Manly Boy" by Andrew Sloan Draper ; From The Marriage Guide for Young Men by George W. Hudson ; Letter to a Sickly Child by Sydney Smith ; Response to a Fan Letter of Sorts by Charles Dickens ; A Father's Prayer by Douglas MacArthur ; "Only a Dad" by Edgar A. Guest ; Letter to a Bereaved Husband by Samuel Johnson ; Nathaniel Hawthorne's letter to his daughter ; Profile : "A Shau Valley" ; Thomas Jefferson's letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith ; Dr. Johnson and his father ; Profile : Bill Phillips --

Man in prayer and reflection. The Our Father (or the Lord's Prayer) ; The Glory Be ; A child's grace ; "We Thank Thee" by Rebecca Weston ; Profile : Os Guinness "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" ; Tuning the Soul by Robert Murray M'Cheyne ; Unspoken Prayer by anonymous ; "May I Know Thee More Clearly" by Saint Richard ; Harry S. Truman's daily prayer ; "On Self-improvement" by Lord Robert Baden Powell of Gilwell ; Matins (Morning Prayer) by Robert Herrick ; A Prayer for Guidance by George Washington ; A Prayer for Peace by Abraham Lincoln ; A Prayer in Dark Times by Franklin D. Roosevelt ; A Prayer of Gratitude by John F. Kennedy ; A Prayer for a Meaningful Life by Jimmy Carter ; A Prayer for Healing by Ronald Reagan ; A Prayer to Help Others by George H. W. Bush ; A Prayer for the Departed by George W. Bush ; "The Examined Life" by Plato ; Aids to Reflection by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; "A Student's Prayer" by Saint Thomas Aquinas ; "That Which...Had Been Long Looked For" by George Müller ; An Instrument of Peace by Saint Francis of Assisi ; Profile : Saint Damien de Veuster ; Call to Prayer by General Robert E. Lee ; Times That Try Men's Souls by Thomas Paine ; "Forms of Prayer at Sea" by William Wordsworth ; "The Pilgrim Fathers" by William Wordsworth ; The Amidah ; A soldier's prayer ; Thanksgiving Proclamation by George Washington ; "My God Shall Raise Me Up" by Sir Walter Raleigh ; From The Power of Prayer by Samuel Prime ; "Matins" by George Herbert ; Eulogy for Abraham Lincoln by Matthew Simpson ; "In Prayer" edited by Arthur Bennett ; Prayer and the Individual Life by Henry B. F. MacFarland ; Four Thoughts on Prayer by Saint Augustine of Hippo ; From Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo ; Prayer of Saint Benedict ; Homily 6 on Prayer by Saint John Chrysostom ; "Universal Prayer" by Alexander Pope ; National Day of Prayer by Abraham Lincoln ; A Prayer Under the Pressure of Violent Anguish by Robert Burns ; Begin the Day with Prayer by Edward McKendree Bounds ; From "Praying Men Are God's Mightiest Leaders" by Edward McKendree Bounds ; "A Prayer in Darkness" by G. K. Chesterton ; Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral by Rev. Billy Graham ; "Let My Thoughts Abide in Thee" by Robert Louis Stevenson ; New Year's Prayer by Samuel Johnson ; Resolutions by Samuel Johnson ; The martyrdom of Polycarp of Smyrna ; "The Upward Look" by Boethius ; "Prayer of Columbus" by Walt Whitman ; Litany of Humility by Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val ; Praying in Faith by Martin Luther ; What a Great Gift We Have in Prayer by Martin Luther ; A Prayer for a Good Death by Thomas More ; The Anima Christi ; Agnus Dei ; Man : at the end ; Obituary ; Funeral meditation.