Excerpt from President John Smith: The Story of a Peaceful Revolution (Written in 1920) We have been schooled to expect a recurrence of these periods of hard times. The majority of our peo ple believe that such periods have always prevailed, that they cannot be averted, and that it is patriotic to submit patiently to such seasons of suffering. 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.