Self-Help and Thrift

Thesis: Lack of government regulation and personal discipline is the best means to ensure societal growth and cure the social ills of society.

A. Self help is the best way to cure social ills

1. Self help is the root of all individual growth

2. When something is done for men, they have no stimulant to do it themselves- over government makes men helpless

3. Value in legislation causing advancement is overestimated

4. Evils of life only cease if the conditions are fixed

5. Greatest slave is the person who is the thrall of his own moral ignorance

B. Thrift destroys a man's productivity and therefore his grpwth

1. Men are free to find own position and be independent in their condition

2. many features such as idleness, thoughtlessness, vanity, etc must be overcome to employ means for worthy purposes

3. Savings of individuals composes the wealth of nations

4. Those who live only to self satisfy are the most unhappy of all

5. Man must work with his brain to be laboring- work with the arts

6. Large majority of men don't think of anything but the present