Excerpt from Pillars of Society The governing fact about King George is that he is a sailor. He was trained not for a throne, but for the quarter-deck of a battleship. During those forma tive years, when most boys are playing cricket and conjugating amo ashore, he was tossing about the Seven Seas, swarming up the yardarm or stoking the fire, calling at strange ports in far-off lands, learning the rough lessons of the sea, and Sharing the whole some comradeship of plain men. It was a hard school; but no king ever had a better. It brought him face to face with realities. He saw the meaning of duty and discipline, learned to respect those who labour with their hands, and entered into the life of the common people. 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.