Excerpt from Profit and Loss in Man
In the following pages. Author and Lecturer have cooperated, with the Lecturer, it may as well be confessed, rather predominating. Yet even the Lecturer drew upon the Author with some freedom; for while several Chapters of this book have done service as Lectures, on the platform, many of their salient points, as there given, were appropriated from the Author"s own "Wealth and Waste," to which volume these pages are supplementary, while some facts and principles therein, and a few incidents, here find reiteration.
In the Chapters, to be sure, certain matter appears which the Lectures did not contain, and verbal changes have been made to meet the demands of print where the spoken word would not serve so well. But in large part this book is a printed echo of the Lecturer"s platform work during these last few years; and he has not deemed it necessary, or wise, largely to recast the language into which his thoughts of the platform came naturally to shape themselves.
It gratifies him to know that many of the truths which follow have been heard with approval by many thousands of people, and have thus been his modest contribution to a Righteous Cause, in that fashion. If these thousands of hearers could be multiplied, or at least increased, by as many thousands of readers, approving and accepting, the Author ventures to hope that his contribution would count in the final result for which now a full generation he has labored and prayed.
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