A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character

Newell Dwight Hillis was a Congregationalist minister, writer, and philosopher from Brooklyn. As a writer, Hillis wrote a wide variety of books. Some of which are “Right Living as a Fine Art,” “The Better America Lectures,” “Great Books as Life-Teachers: Studies of Character, Real and Ideal,” “After Sermon Prayers,” “The Contagion of Character, Studies in Culture and Success,” “Lectures and Oration” By Hillis and Henry Ward Beecher, “The Quest of John Chapman: The Story of a Forgotten Hero” “German Atrocities, Their Nature and Philosophy: Studies in Belgium and France During July and August 1917″ “The Quest of Happiness: A Study of Victories Over Life’s Troubles,” and “John Milton the Scholar in Politics (1608-1674).” Hillis also authored a book containing World War I German atrocity stories. Based upon his belief in the veracity of the reports of alleged German inhumanity, he called for the sterilization of Germans.