Letters From Prison: Socialism a Spiritual Sunrise (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Letters From Prison: Socialism a Spiritual Sunrise

Bouck White was born in Middleburg, a village in the Catskill Mountains, October 20, 1874. His father was a retired merchant. On both sides he came from Work ing class stock; his paternal grandfather was a farmer, his maternal grandfather a blacksmith. On his father's side he is of Scotch and English descent; his mother, Mary Bouck, was Holland Dutch.

It is Of interest to note that the charge Of alien blood brought against so many Socialists here in America, does not apply in Bouck White's case. He not only traces his ancestry through a long line Of New England's strain, but on his mother's side goes back through many years of Dutch ancestry in the valleys Of the Hudson and the Mo hawk. Furthermore, one Of his ancestors in the primeval Catskill woods fell in love with an Indian maid and mar ried her. Therefore there is a strain of aboriginal stock in him. In the person of this ancestor he is American of the Americans. In them as his representative he stood on Plymouth Rock and welcomed the Pilgrims; further back still, he was on the shores Of San Salvadore and wel comed Columbus to these shores. This Indian strain in his blood perhaps accounts for some Of the native poetry in his composition; a poetry not so much in the faculty of the rhymester as in that gift Of imagination which vivi fies Whatever it touches.

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