I have a most peculiar affection for Elbert Hubbard. He was, as the elderly will recall, the author of that capsule classic of the Mauve Age of Americana, A Message to Garcia. When not traveling about the country on the lecture platform, taking innocuous pokes at the clergy—at a time when taking pokes at the clergy was considered next to blasphemy—he co…
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