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Excerpt from Progressive Men, Women, and Movements of the Past Twenty-Five Years
Many of the most pleasant and inspiring hours of an editor's experience are those spent in the society of men and women prominent in the life of the times, by reason of their moral convictions, intellectual brilliancy, serious purpose, enthusiasm for humanity, or cleverness in con tributing in a wholesome way to the joy of living. Most reminiscent literature is largely concerned with personal records, which, however pleasant and precious to the writer and his immediate friends, are of little interest or value to the general reading public. It has been my purpose in the following pages as far as possible to avoid this element of weakness in reminiscent literature and to occupy the space with the larger and more significant events of the time, and with sketches and word-pictures of men and women Of prominence, together with personal recollections of inter est, thus bringing the reader en rapport with a wonderful and distinctly germinal period that in a real way laid the foundations for greater things in the coming years.
This volume, though in part an historical record, lays no claim to being a history of the great movements and strug gles described herein, many of which would require a book much larger than the present work to even properly treat in outline. Moreover, as the title indicates, the volume is especially concerned with those vital movements, ideals and theories with which The Arena and The Twentieth Century Magazine were intimately identified while under my editorial management; and being partly reminiscent, its more lengthy personal sketches relate chie?y to men and women Of national and international in?uence among the contributors and staff writers with whom I came into in timate relation.
One Of the chief purposes of the management of The Arena was to present great vital movements and theories of the hour, giving emphasis to the sides and views which.
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