Download or read book Famous Fanatics (Classic Reprint) written by Guy Hayler and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Famous Fanatics In the course of a long public life, now extending to nearly fifty years, I have been brought into contact with numbers of men and women in almost every walk of life, and above and beyond all else I have been struck with this fact, that in the struggle for improved conditions of life and labour, alike in the home, the shop, the village, the city, and the nation, so many of the past and present leaders in the march of human progress have been total abstainers from the use of intoxicating liquors. The supporters of the liquor traffic have so often depicted total abstainers as "Fanatics," and merely "Men of one idea," that many have come to believe that a person abstaining from the use of intoxicants is incapable of achieving any real success in the various walks of life, whereas all history proves the exact opposite to be the fact. The main idea in the preparation of this volume and the subsequent volumes, has been to assist the movement for total abstinence and the total prohibition of the manufacture, sale and importation of intoxicating liquors by placing before the public some samples of the work done by total abstainers in every sphere of life, and among every class of the community. From these brief records it will be seen that instead of total abstainers being the persons imagined, they have been in reality the leaders in thought, literature, invention, commerce, philanthrophy, moral, political and religious advancement. While conscious of many defects in the work, I trust its publication will result in some who may read these records resolving upon a life of total abstinence as the best preliminary to that industry, perseverance and self-culture which is necessary if success in life is to be attained. 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.