Excerpt from Mercantile Credits: A Series of Practical Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association of Los Angeles, California First, upon the business wisdom of accepting or refusing the opportunities offered. Second, upon a hurried review of the legal problems involved. It is impossible to keep an attorney constantly at his elbow to pass upon every trans action, and therefore he must have a working knowledge of business law. Third, upon keen judgment of human nature and human character. The aphorism of Alexander Pope, The proper study of mankind is man, applies with greater force to the business man than to others. 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.