The Story of Life Assurance (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Story of Life Assurance

I find it extremely fascinating. Sir Walter Besant advised authors to acquire a special knowledge of one subject, and write on that subject. That's what I did nearly 20 years ago, and I have been writing about Life Assurance ever since. In fact, I have had neither time nor desire to write upon any other subject for I regard Life Assurance as the greatest movement in the world for uplifting humanity.

I have written some thousands of articles about it, and many books for the benefit of Agency workers - for the men who secure the business. But I have long cherished an idea of writing a popular account of Life Assurance, and for many months I have been engaged in the intervals of a harassing editorial life in trying to put my idea into practice.

The Story of Life Assurance is not a large book, but large enough for the average man to digest. A famous author was once asked to write a biography of Napoleon in 36 pages for an encyclopedia. Thirty-six pages he exclaimed, the thing is impossible give me 36 volumes 1 The same difficulty confronts the man who would write a history of Life Assurance. Mine is not a history, but it traces the rise and progress of Life Assurance, and describes its advantages in a style more fascinating than a novel, and certainly more useful There are no diagrams in it, or mathematical formulae. The Story is a book, not for a day, but for all time. Whoever picks it up will, I venture to think, read it through from beginning to end.

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