Book description
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION BOYS, this foreword is too highbrow for
your taste, skip it, but the author dont believe you will, and even if
he has used some dictionary words he feels that you will forgive him
after he tclls you that he did so only because of the lack of time to
think up more simple terms. What he wants to say is that . . . Bolhood
is a wonderful and invaluable asset to the nation, for in the breast of
every boy there is a divine spark, materialists call it the urge of
youth, others caII it the Christ in man, the Quakers caII it the inner
light, but all view it with interest and anxiety, the ignorant with fear
and the wise with understanding sympathy, but also with a feeling akin
to awe. Those of us who think we know boys, feel that this inner light
illuminating their wonderful powers of imagination, is the compelling
force culminating in the vigorous accomplishments of manhood. It is the
force which sent Columbus voyaging over the unknown seas, which sent
Captain Cool on his voyage around the world, the same force which
carried Lindbergh in his frail airship across the Atlantic. Yes, it is
the subIine force 15-which has inspired physirians and laymen to
chearfully risk and sacrifice their lives in search of the cause of
Iellom Fever, Anthrax, IIydrophobia and other communicabIe diseases . .
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