The Creed of the Conquering Chief, as Expounded by the Inspired Orator - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... something In him that makes him a master and causes others to be glad to serve. The real rule of men will always be a theocracy, composed of men raised up by the nature of things to command." 26. Out of this thought we may weave another section for our Creed: Success and conquest comes only from each man's individual efforts wisely, swiftly, incessantly exerted. Permanent power cannot be acquired by any artificial plan of levelling men. Only as you hue closely to Nature's plan of encouraging that which is best, can you reach supremacy. 27. Gerald Stanley Lee wrote a great book. It is called "CROWDS--a Book for the Individual". I wish I might stop and write a book: "INDIVIDUALS--A Book for the Crowd". 28. Lee, in his book, weaves a mind-gripping story of crowds--people in masses. He talks of their ambitions, their machines, their goals, their methods. He deals with where they are going; how they are going; what they are after; how they are trying to get it; and how they are trying to express themselves. But always as the "crowd", the mass, understand. It is a sort of socialistic interweaving of men in bulk--the ebb and flow of the multitude as they surge along through life. 29. A crowd represents a levelling of men--a pulling down of the dominant--a lowering of leaders. Not that the masterful man has committed any crime against the laws of created beings--but simply because he is above the mass, do they seek to pull him down. "If we cannot get up where you are, mayhap we can pull you down to where we are" is the attitude of the crowd. In other words, the social leveller's ideal is the annihilation of the every-where active and alwayshas-been-active law of LEADERSHIP--survival of the superior. 30. Is the grand forest giant that towers...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230241779
- ISBN 13 9781230241777
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages18
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