The Call of the Twentieth Century: An Address to Young Men (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Call of the Twentieth Century: An Address to Young Men The earlier centuries cared little for the life of a man. Hence they failed to discriminate. In masses and mobs they needed kings and rulers but could not choose them. Hence the device of se leeting as ruler the elder son of the last ruler, whatever his nature might be. A child, a lunatic, a monster, a sage, it was all the same to these unheeding centuries. The people could not follow those they understood or who under stood them. They must trust all to the blind chance of heredity. Tyrant or figurehead, the mob, which from its own indifference creates the pomp of. 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.