Excerpt from The Vanguard

These hardy, rude but none the less Homeric husbandmen daily staked their lives, until ulti mately they lost them, in a death-grip battle with all the various species of noxious social weeds that, so long as they ¿ourished, remained a constant threat to and charge upon every form of peace ful industry and commerce.

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