[Gutenberg 3736] • A Far Country — Volume 1
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- Authors
- Churchill, Winston
- Tags
- upper class families -- fiction , religion and sociology -- fiction , ethics -- fiction
- Date
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.15 MB
- Lang
- en
My name is Hugh Paret. I was a corporation lawyer, but by no means a
typical one, the choice of my profession being merely incidental, and
due, as will be seen, to the accident of environment. The book I am about
to write might aptly be called The Autobiography of a Romanticist. In
that sense, if in no other, I have been a typical American, regarding my
country as the happy hunting-ground of enlightened self-interest, as a
function of my desires. Whether or not I have completely got rid of this
romantic virus I must leave to those the aim of whose existence is to
eradicate it from our literature and our life. A somewhat Augean task!