Mark my words, and think of it thirty years from now.

You will find that those who are then the millionaires of this country, who are the orators of the country, who are the poets of the country, who are the strong merchants of the country, who are the great philanthropists of the country,--mightiest in the church and state,--are now on a level with you, not an inch above you, and in straightened circumstances.
"No outfit, no capital to start with?
Young man, go down to the library and get some books, and read of what wonderful mechanism God gave you in your hand, in your foot, in your eye, in your ear, and then ask some doctor to take you into the dissecting-room and illustrate to you what you have read about, and never again commit the blasphemy of saying you have no capital to start with.

_Equipped_?
_Why, the poorest young man is equipped as only the God of the whole universe could afford to equip him_." A newsboy is not a very promising candidate for success or honors in any line of life.

A young man can't set out in life with much less chance than when he starts his "daily" for a living.

Yet the man who more than any other is responsible for the industrial regeneration of this continent started in life as a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railway.
Thomas Alva Edison was then about fifteen years of age.