Divine Dynamite by J.E. Conant

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Introduction

Power is the great quest of the modern man. In every realm of human activity men are reaching out after it as a fever-stricken man reaches out after water. There has never been a tune in all human history when men in all ranks of life seemed so insistent on getting power as they do today.

In the commercial realm men are driving their business by day and by night, on land and on sea, in summer and in winter, until they are fairly tumbling over one another in their scramble after the dollar, in order that they may gain commercial power.

In the political realm there are men who are taking their ease in our political parlors and basking in the favor of a long-suffering public, whose characters are so rotten that they would have been unfit to sneak down the back alleys of Sodom in the dead of night; and this is the price they have paid that they might attain to political power.

In the scientific realm men are digging into

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