Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Popular Government, Vol. 29: September 1962
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Coates is that he has been able to sell his dream of the Institute and its worth to so many able men to the point that they have been willing to make his dream theirs and devote seg ments of their lives and fortunes to trying to bring it to fruition and an ever greater reality. One early staff mem ber, Dillard Gardner, now marshal of the North Carolina Supreme Court, expressed it this way: Of course, there were times of frustration and of irritation, but as I look back, I realize that had you been a methodical, systematic, traditional personality - there would never have been an Institute. To me the grip of the Institute idea upon you has always been understandable. The miracle is that the rest of us took your dream, made it our own, and equally became slaves to it. Driven by the throbbing dynamics of a great idea the impossible is done as a matter of course and miracles become a commonplace. In a sense our faith was greater even than your own, for we had to believe not only in the 'idea' but also in you. However, in a more realistic sense, it was the greatness of your own faith which fed our own and renewed it. Institutions, indeed, are the lengthened shadows of men, but it is ideas which lift men's heads to the sun and thus make shadows. 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.
