Apr 12, 2005 01:26
". . . "We'll master here these records of the world's life. We'll seek wisdom in the history and expierience of man. What do you know of the treasures buried in those big volumes? Our young men go to school and plunge into life with a mere smattering. Do you know the history of your own country, how it was discovered, how its colonies crew, how its battles were fought against overwhelming and impossible odds? Do you know the history of the mind of man? Do you know the story of those ragged bleeding feet-of the great thinkers of thea ges who have found the path of truth through blood and tears and thenw alked its way to the stake, to the block and the gallows? Come with me into the big world of thepast-read, study, think, and gird yourself with power!. . .The poison of indolence is in our blood-the tendency to centralized tyranny. . . "
ummm unqote? i love htis book. read it sometime. again its: The Victim by Thomas Dixon. found it in my grandmas first editions. this one was published in 1914.