The Heart of a Man (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Heart of a Man Dean Driscoll sat quiet and argued ruminatively, partly to himself, partly to the Adirondack foothills that stretched up and away from his house, and somewhat to the young priest who was nervously pacing the veranda. "No, " said the Dean. "Socialism will never bring about any acute crisis in this country. It wants and fights for too many things that nearly everybody wants. The things that nearly everybody wants will come, one by one. Socialism gets a hearing, and a following, because it promises to get these things for people. When these things - the things that nearly all of us look for - better conditions of living, fairer adjustments of the burdens of life, when these come, then Socialism, or the same thing by another name, will have to think of another set of things that most people want. And so it will go on." "The Income Tax, now, " he went on whimsically, "that was Socialism till it was seen that a majority of the voters were for it. 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.