Download or read book The Prophet of San Francisco (Classic Reprint) written by Louis Freeland Post and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Prophet of San Francisco Library edition of the Works of Henry George. Progress and Poverty. P. 549.preached with the brilliancy and force of this one. Into open minds he carried con viction wherever he secured attention. Yet his rare' faculty of vitalizing precise thought with eloquent expression exposed him to a cross-fire of criticism. Some readers who enjoyed the charm of his composition but were unaccustomed to exact thinking, feared the hypnotic effect of his style, and in self-defense objected vaguely but loftily to his argument; on the other hand were those schooled in close thinking but with a Gradgrindish contempt for sentiment, who often evaded his argument by con demning his adoption of a popular literary style for a scientific subject. Then again, there were the pop-gun critics who seemed to think him properly scorned as a writer because he sometimes split an infinitive, and utterly confounded as a reasoner be cause he did it on purpose. But these eriti cisms were only temporary annoyances. Like the contemptuous protest of the noble author of The Reign of Law (excited by solicitude for what George afterward called his trumpery title and patch of ground) they have not so much as impeded the steady march of George's ideas along the broad highway of common thought. 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.