Putting the Most into Life
Putting the Most
Into Life
By Booker T. Washington
Author of “Up from Slavery”
New York
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Publishers
Copyright, 1906, by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Published September, 1906
Composition and electrotype plates by
D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston
The chapters in this little book were originallypart of a series of Sunday Evening Talks givenby the Principal to the students of the TuskegeeNormal and Industrial Institute. They havebeen recast from the second to the third person,and many local allusions have been cutout. They are now sent out, in response to repeatedrequests, to a larger audience than thatto which they were first spoken.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama
August 10, 1906
A Table of Contents
| I. | Health a Requisite for Effective Living | 1 |
| II. | Some of the Qualities Essential to the most Successful School Life | 5 |
| III. | A Word to Prospective Teachers about putting the Most into their Work | 9 |
| IV. | Industrial Efficiency an Aid to the Higher Life | 17 |
| V. | Making Religion a Vital Part of Living | 23 |
| VI. | On making our Race Life count in the Life of the Nation | 30 |
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Putting the Most into Life
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Health a Requisite for Effective Living
The individual who puts the mostinto life is the one who gets themost out of life. The first requisitefor making life effective for one’sself or society is a sound body.There have been many peo