Excerpt from William Morris, Vol. 3: Craftsman Socialist Ost ages produce men who seem specially marked out for leadership, who by sheer force of personality alone impress and convince their fellows into some new line of action or some fresh view of life. In some cases their personalities have a sudden effect, readily convincing large numbers of people, and filling them with eager enthusiasm. Others have a more insinuating way of doing their work; they impress only a very few, and often lead popular opinion into the belief that they are making no impression at all. Of the work of such leaders of thought it may be said that it is not fully born but has to serve a further period of growth in the minds of men before it enters into full orders of practical life. The leadership of William Morris was of a type that partook of some of the qualities of each of these two. 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.