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Excerpt from The Age of Mental Virility: An Inquiry Into the Records of Achievement of the World's Chief Workers and Thinkers
Four hundred records Of men famous in all lines Of intellectual activity were most carefully compiled and analyzed. It was soon found that these records could conveniently be grouped into two classes more or less distinct, though not showing a clearly defined line Of de marcation. These groups were, con cisely, the workers and the thinkers. A word Of explanation is necessary. 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.