You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Optimism An Essay Author: Helen Keller Release Date: March 13, 2010 [EBook #31622] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OPTIMISM *** Produced by Mark C. Orton, Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Optimism [Illustration] Optimism An Essay By Helen Keller Author of "The Story of My Life" [Illustration] New York T. Y. Crowell and Company Mdcccciii Copyright, 1903, by Helen Keller Published November, 1903 D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston To My Teacher Contents Part i Optimism Within 11 Part ii Optimism Without 25 Part iii The Practice of Optimism 53 Part i. Optimism Within [Illustration] Part i Optimism Within Could we choose our environment, and were desire in human undertakings synonymous with endowment, all men would, I suppose, be optimists.
