The Rebuilding Of Old Commonwealths Being Essays Toward The Training Of The Forgotten Man

Excerpt from The Rebuilding of Old Commonwealths, Being Essays Toward the Training of the Forgotten Man in the Southern States Old Jeff. Meddlin lived in a ramshackle house, ploughed a poor farm, made a cross-mark for his signature, led prayers in the congregation, and only twice in his life went out of the county where he was born. He was a man with a strong body and with good sense; but his thought travelled in narrow ways, and dyspepsia wore him out before he grew old. Young Jeff, is very like his father, with this difference, that he indulges in drink instead of prayer; and Jeff. 3d, a lad of good parts, has started life on the level where old Jeff. died. The family for three generations has not got out of its shirt-sleeves. 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.