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Excerpt from E. D: Morel: The Man and His Work A not inconsiderable part of this volume is taken up with appreciations of the work of E. D. Morel, laudatory appreciations coming from the heads of Church and State and Commerce. They read curiously. Those who made them think otherwise, now. The story of E. D. Morel is like a play by one of the great Greek Tragedians, and can only be fully brought out by the dramatic contrasts. In 1911 the Morning Post hardly got ahead of a press and public pouring forth peans of praise, and within a few short years even his friends were glad to see Morel safe in gaol, lest press and public should assassinate him! The man himself never changed at all, neither his ideals, nor his weapons, nor his enthusiasms, nor his almost childlike faith in human nature. He is left at the end a little puzzled and bewildered at the four prison walls he found confining him. As he never knew of any reason why truth and logic should not prevail in his own case (for he never could "play the hypocrite amongst you"), so he supposed that truth and logic should be enough for ail men always. It was on this supposition that he had carried to a successful close the emancipation of the Congo, perhaps the greatest single-handed fight that any man has ever won. 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.