Excerpt from A Builder of the New South: Being the Story of the Life Work of Daniel Augustus Tompkins Among the foremost of these commonwealth builders was Daniel Augustus Tompkins, industrial worker, promoter, and missionary. He was fitted for the work by heredity and early environment, by character, talents and education. Born and brought up on a southern plantation, educated and trained in Northern technical schools, mills, and machine shops, inventive and receptive of new ideas, strong and ener getic in body and mind, interested in everything pertaining to man, and full of zeal to help mankind by teaching men to help themselves, he was a rare combination of worker and philosopher, of student and teacher, of economist and philanthropist; a Southern Franklin, growing in poor soil and enriching the soil he grew in. The story of his life is the story of the New South. It will be told in the following pages, as far as possible, by himself and in his own words. 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.