Athonia, or the Original Four Hundred (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Athonia, or the Original Four Hundred It may be claimed that this book has several missions besides emphasizing the useful factor that Commerce is in hastening the brother hood of mankind among nations. Marvelous inventions have not yet been shown to have a tendency toward improving the human race physically. The only means perhaps of attaining the most important and desirable end is suggested to the reader in this narrative. That a standard toward perfect manhood and womanhood would lower the ravages of the so-called white plague as well as all other ills that human flesh is heir to, is self-evident. The original Four Hundred of which this story treats, were not an aristocracy of wealth merely, but were the ne plus ultra of society, because of the high standing of their ancestors and their personal, natural and acquired superiority, manifested in their shapely forms, strength, health, courage, learning and beauty. That centuries before Columbus discovered America, both Europeans and Asiatics, more frequently the latter, had landed in America, the following pages attempt to prove beyond conjecture. What laws a community, consisting of young men and women graduates from the highest institutions of learning, if set in a fertile but distant and heretofore unknown land, would form in establishing an "Athonia, " are here set forth for the consideration of the reader. 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.