Abstract

A Rebel and a Leader

The article presents information on the book "The Last of the Heretics," by Algernon S. Crapsey. Here is the story of a boy who would not go to school. Here is a youth, called lazy and good-for-nothing, who drifted from city to city in search of a mission in life. But, here also, with humor and pathos, is the story of the dogged singleness of purpose and eloquent and intellectual brilliance with which that mission was fulfilled. At the age of six Algernon Crapsey was literally driven to school and through one entire term he refused to learn his letters. Whippings and pleadings at home and at school failed to shake his determination, and when at the age of eleven he rebelliously left school and announced that he had a job his family gave up in despair and let him go his own way.