User:Webdinger
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My name is Preston So (born February 6, 1992), and I'm a fourteen-year-old Web designer, composer, musician, and student living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I've been a member of Wikisource since September 9, 2006. I'm currently a freshman at Air Academy High School (whose article I need to improve substantially!) and a violinist in the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony. My Web design experience has gone back to third grade (2001) and I operate a website called Seraphic Zephyr. I have accounts on Wiktionary and Wikipedia.
Contributions
- Main location: Special:Contributions/Webdinger
Rewritings and Significant Edits
- Poor Folk
- Split the entire book into dates; it's organized in letters of correspondence.
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Man's history is being shaped according to the difficulties it encounters. These have offered us problems and claimed their solutions from us, the penalty of non-fulfilment being death or degradation.
These difficulties have been different in different peoples of the earth, and in the manner of our overcoming them lies our distinction.
The Scythians of the earlier period of Asiatic history had to struggle with the scarcity of their natural resources. The easiest solution that they could think of was to organize their whole population, men, women, and children, into bands of robbers. And they were irresistible to those who were chiefly engaged in the constructive work of social coöperation.
But fortunately for man the easiest path is not his truest path. If his nature were not as complex as it is, if it were as simple as that of a pack of hungry wolves, then, by this time, those hordes of marauders would have overrun the whole earth. But man, when confronted with difficulties, has to acknowledge that he is man, that he has his responsibilities to the higher faculties of his nature, by ignoring which he may achieve success that is immediate, perhaps, but that will become a death trap to him. For what are obstacles to the lower creatures are opportunities to the higher life of man.
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