Excerpt from The Science of Culture, Vol. 2 One Sure Way of Rising in the World "You have one sure way of rising in the world, and that is wholly within your power; make yourself necessary." These are the words of Lord Chesterfield to his son, and the man whose fame rests upon the enduring foundation that his name has become a synonym for Culture, supplemented his advice with the statement that "civility, affability, and obliging agreeable dress and manner are welcome everywhere." In repeating this good advice to a protegee of her own, a New York dowager added: "Make yourself necessary to some one" and unpleasant to no one and she quoted an epitaph in an English churchyard reading: "She was so pleasant," as all that is necessary to say in praise of a person, in that it embraces everything good. A person without ability to express innate Culture cannot be pleasing to those who possess it, as the crudeness he might reveal would jar upon the nerves of the Cultured. 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.