Excerpt from The Coming Individualism
My dear Yerburgh,
In inscribing this our book to you, my colleague and I give expression to a feeling which has sustained us from the moment tre began our work. As with orators, so with authors. The conviction of having an audience sympathetic enough to appreciate at least their motives, encourages and emboldens. Attacking, as we have done, some of the most powerful and misery-dealing prejudices, and unable to count upon that friendly reception and unbiassed criticism a forded to those who swim with the current, it has been to us a source of strength to know that you at least will give a hearing to pleadings which are based on patriotism and justice to suffering humanity.
It is true that the cause of Individualism can at this moment count upon a far larger circle of sympathisers than was the case several years ago, when m began to call public attention to the first practical steps towards its triumph, but we naturally look upon you as their true exponent. Your exertions on behalf of our financially oppressed agricultural classes, and the unfortunate victims of our abominable usury system, we have considered to be a guarantee that you will favourably weigh arguments which the prejudices of most men would cause them to neglect.
We willingly confess that in this Dedication we have been actuated by the hope that your name on the first page would attract the attention of the members of that assembly which, of all bodies of men in the world, exercises the greatest influence over the Empire, and over the human race - the Imperial Parliament.
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