The Idea Invaders

Excerpt from Idea Invaders The latter kinds of ideas are those which are the concern of this book. In its pages we have attempted to demonstrate how ideas with a purpose, spread by men with missions, have influenced the destinies of nations and the lives of individuals throughout history and at the present instant. If this book has a moral, it is the simple fact that the most important things each of us possesses, the freedom of our minds and spirits - in short, the things that make life worth living - are at the mercy of the force of such ideas and of men with such missions. 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.