Corpus boundary — Samuel Smiles v1

Included — PROOF WORK

• Self-Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance (1859; standard
  enlarged edition) — sources/selfhelp_pg935.txt, Gutenberg #935.

Self-Help is large, so v1 draws its evidence pool from the core doctrinal
chapters (the biographical illustration-chapters are read for context but are
not the primary quote source):

• I. Self-Help — National and Individual (the founding argument)
• IV. Application and Perseverance
• V. Helps and Opportunities — Scientific Pursuits (the power of little things)
• VI. Workers in Art (patience, trifles, «perfection is no trifle»)
• VIII. Energy and Courage
• IX. Men of Business (honesty, method, the true gentleman in trade)
• X. Money — Its Use and Abuse (thrift, self-denial)
• XI. Self-Culture — Facilities and Difficulties
• XII. Example — Models
• XIII. Character — The True Gentleman

Chapters II, III, VII (Leaders of Industry, The Three Potters, Industry and the
Peerage) are read as illustration and may be cited, but v1 does not mine them
for concept anchors.

Touched, but out of the evidence pool (marked)

• Character (Samuel Smiles, 1871) — the sequel that expands the
  character/home/duty themes. It is public domain, but was not ingested for
  v1. Where the debate leans on «character», the anchor is always the Self-Help
  chapter XIII, not Character. A future v2 may ingest Character, Thrift
  (1875) and Duty (1880) as their own marked layers.

Excluded from v1

• The biographical anecdotes as standalone claims about their subjects (Palissy,
  Wedgwood, Watt, etc.): they are Smiles's illustrations, cited only to
  ground his doctrine, never as independent history.
• Smiles's other books (Character, Thrift, Duty, Lives of the Engineers,
  the Autobiography).
• «Best of Smiles» motivational quote collections without an edition trace — the
  self-help genre Smiles founded is now meme-saturated (see QUOTE_AUTHENTICITY).
• Modern edited/abridged reprints — the Gutenberg standard text is the anchor.

Reason

Self-Help is the Victorian bridge from Franklin's applied virtue to the modern
self-improvement book. Its soul is carried by the connective argument of the
doctrinal chapters — self-help, perseverance, industry, character — not by the
hundreds of exemplary lives it strings together. Binding the evidence to those
chapters keeps the KB honest and the corpus the smallest that still carries the
doctrine.