Welsh Political and Educational Leaders in the Victorian Era (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Welsh Political and Educational Leaders in the Victorian Era Fourth, a leader must have the two-fold vision - the onward and the backward. It was Gibbon that said that had Charles Martell failed to win his fight against the Arabs at Tours in the 8th century, we might now have had Mohammedan doctors teaching the faith of Islam at Oxford. We prosper in the prosperity of others. All peoples and nations are of necessity under the in fluence of a cosmic conservatism that moulds, checks and controls their career. NO man, however great his gifts, can ever truly fill the functions Of a leader if he disregards thg past. 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.