Excerpt from Summits of Success: How They Have Been Reached With Sketches of the Careers of Some Notable Climbers It would have been easier to have followed the older method of grouping the mental and moral characteristics of the men of the great careers but, perhaps, a more practical purpose will have been served by letting the stories convey their lessons direct from the circumstances and conditions in which they were lived. In truth, the moral teaching is essentially the same in every instance. The men of good parts and good conduct gain the summits of success in all branches of human efort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.