Addresses at the Funeral of Henry George: Sunday, October 31, 1897, at the Grand Central Palace, New York City (Classic...

Addresses at the Funeral of Henry George: Sunday, October 31, 1897, at the Grand Central Palace, New York City (Classic...
ISBN-10
0483709158
ISBN-13
9780483709157
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
68
Language
English
Published
2018-01-23
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
Edmund Yardley

Description

Excerpt from Addresses at the Funeral of Henry George: Sunday, October 31, 1897, at the Grand Central Palace, New York City Why did Henry George speak of a funeral procession? Why did he suggest a matter so out of keeping with his accustomed retire ment and modesty? Why should he think there would be any demonstration at his fu neral? The reason was the same as that which caused him years earlier suddenly to halt in the middle of Broadway while in the act of crossing the street with one of his sons and, with entire irrelevancy to the topic about which they had last talked, exclaim: Yes, I could die now. When his son asked him what his words meant, he roused as from a reverie, and walking to the sidewalk. 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.

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