Excerpt from The Man of Power: A Series of Studies in Christian EfficiencyIT is a dangerous thing for a Word to become popular. The experience is likely to turn its head. Over and over again a steady and capable word which has had a long and useful career has come into sudden notoriety. The experience has been quite too much for it, Flaunt'ed in the headlines of yellow journals, ¿ung from the tongues of sensational speakers, carelessly tossed from lip to lip by the thoughtless crowd, it has degenerated uh til it has quite lost its character. Popular words are likely to get into bad company, and in the end this will be their undoing.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.