Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy.
![Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, Image](https://www.idlehearts.com/images/utilitarianism-had-found-in-samuel-smiles-selfhelp-its-portrait-gallery-of-heroes.jpg?x85372 "Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes,")
