Spencer Heath Archive

Item 879

Penciling on notepad paper

No date – before World War II?

Early in his young manhood the mind and heart of the present writer was much engaged with the problem of poverty and war. His ideals and aspirations seemed first to find a promise of their realization in the socialism of Edward Bellamy. But sober reflection showed that the Socialist dream was of happy days, sweet consummation of wishful yearning, with no discovery, no proposal of effectual means of bringing it about. Education, then as now, was to be the great silent but . .

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