The Autobiography of an Individualist (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Autobiography of an Individualist<br><br>In the United States to-day the individualist is beset with adversaries who are misrepresenting his mission and belittling his importance. Yet his vital relationship to the highest possibilities and to the noblest aspirations of the race is unmistakable. The individual is the personal, that is to say, the principal, factor in progress of every description. He is the parent of ideas, the originator of plans, the organizer and director of social and industrial enterprises. He dreams, and society wakes up and finds itself famous. True, society reacts on the individual, inspires multitudes of individuals to praiseworthy exertion and development, and thus the commonwealth flourishes.<br><br>The individualist has a message for the present generation.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.