Life, Diary and Letters of Oscar Lovell Shafter
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Life, Diary and Letters of Oscar Lovell Shafter: A Daughter´s Tribute to a Father´s Memory No man lives for himself alone. The influence of every individual life, for weal or for woe, goes down through the generations. When feeble, or purposeless, or base, it soon becomes so attenuated by admixture with the universal current that it merges with it and is lost to sight; and it is well that it should be so. In other cases it rushes onward, a vital force, gathering strength from union with kindred forces, and bearing humanity forward upon its bosom. And again it is well for the race. The history of every new State reflects the character of her leaders. The California of to-day, in no small degree, owes the eminent rank she has attained to a little group of men who planted their standards, in pioneer times, high above the greed of gain, the mire of dishonest politics, the dissipation and vice that were corrupting society, and rallied about them the forces that made for education, for righteousness and for progress. The first immigration to California had been composed, in large part, of men of courage and of character. The first few years sped by, the avenues of travel were cleared, actual assurances had gone abroad of vast fortunes acquired in the "diggings," most of the home-loving Argonauts, successful or unsuccessful, had returned to their families, leaving behind them the minority, many of whom were wanderers or wastrels, and the riff-raff of the world rushed in. Fortunate it was for California that simultaneously a tide of immigration of a different order set in. 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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