In the course of his career he became a nation-builder, a leader in thought, a writer, a speaker, the friend of workmen, schoolmen, and statesmen, the associate of both the lowly and the lofty.

But these were merely interesting happenings in his life as compared with his great inspirations--his distribution of wealth, his passion for world peace, and his love for mankind.
Perhaps we are too near this history to see it in proper proportions, but in the time to come it should gain in perspective and in interest.
The generations hereafter may realize the wonder of it more fully than we of to-day.

Happily it is preserved to us, and that, too, in Mr.
Carnegie's own words and in his own buoyant style.

It is a very memorable record--a record perhaps the like of which we shall not look upon again.
JOHN C.VAN DYKE _New York_ _August, 1920_ CONTENTS I.PARENTS AND CHILDHOOD 1 II.

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