John Rawn: Prominent Citizen (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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John Rawn might, in the caretaking plans of the immortal gods, have been born at any time in the world's history, at any place upon the world's surface. He himself, had he been consulted, might have sug gested Rome, Greece, or mediaeval England, as Offering better field for one of his kidney. He might have indi cated certain resemblances between himself and per sons who, through virtue given Oi the immortal gods, have attained the purple, who have held permanent and admitted ascendancy Over their fellow-men. As a matter of fact, however, John Rawn was born in Texas - and of Texas at the very spot where, had it been left to his own candid opinion, no John Rawn, no especial hero, ought ever to have been born. The village he honored by his birth - one of Seven which now contend Over that claim to fame - was the very home Of demo~ cratic equality; and how could the home Of democratic equality be called typical environment for the produc tion of a man believing in the divine right of a very few?

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