| "AS THIS BOOK GOES TO PRESS, word is received that the author, Dr. Orison Swett Marden, has passed away.
The relations between Dr. Marden and the publishers were such that the tidings come with a sense of personal loss, irrespective of business relations. For over a quarter of a century this firm has been issuing his books, and never in all that time did he write a line of other than cheer, uplift, and inspiration.
More than two and a half million copies of his books have been published, in more than twenty different countries. Who can estimate the enormous good of such a widespread message? Dr. Marden was constantly in receipt of letters from persons whom he had thus helped, or who sought a personal word of advice. It is said that a college was founded in India as a direct result of his first book, ‘Pushing To The Front.’
Dr. Marden was his own best example. Beginning life as a friendless orphan, he worked his way through college and to distinction in more than one line of enterprise. Many distinguished men, including two Presidents, claimed him as a friend. He was the founder of Success Magazine and remained its editor until his death.
‘The Conquest Of Worry’ is a typical utterance from him. He believed in the casting out of Fear, Worry, and every attendant ill by the exercise of the higher emotions. It is a worthy closing utterance, but we hope and believe not the last, as we understand than he had gone over the manuscript of another volume during the last weeks of his life.
He laid down his pen at the ripe age of seventy-five, busy, far-reaching, and clear-visioned to the last."
- Thomas Y. Crowell Publishers |