Excerpt from The Rising of the Tide: The Story of Sabinsport Ralph Gardner was only 28. He had graduated six years before at a Western university where for the moment the sins of contemporary business and politics absorbed the interest of the greater part of faculty and students. There was a fine contempt for all existing expressions of life, a fine confidence in their power to create social institutions as well as forms of art which would sweep the world of what they called the worn out. Whatever their professions, they went forth to lay bare the futility and selfishness and greed of the present world. They had no perspective, no charity, no experience, but they had zeal, courage, and the supporting vision of a world Where no man knew want, no woman dragged a weary life through factory or mill, no child was not busy and happy. Never has there poured into the country a group more convinced of its own righteousness and the essen tial selfishness of all who did not see with their eyes or share their confidence in the possibility of re encra tion through system. Like revolutionists in al ages they felt in' themselves the power to make over the 'world and like them they carried their plans carefully diagramed in their pockets. 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.