# The Days of a Man

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> Source: Bahá'í Library Online (bahai-library.com), curated by Jonah Winters. Used by permission of the curator. Original citation: David Starr Jordan, The Days of a Man, bahai-library.com.
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> THE DAYS OF A MAN
> BEING MEMORIES
> OF A NATURALIST, TEACHER
> AND MINOR PROPHET OF
> DEMOCRACY
> 
> BY DAVID STARR JORDAN
> 
> ILLUSTRATED
> 
> VOLUME Two
> 1900-1921
> 
> Jungle and town and reef and sea,
> I have loved God's earth and God's earth loved me,
> 
> Take it for all in all!
> 
> Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York
> WORLD BOOK COMPANY
> 1922
> The Days of a Man                 1912
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> as to personal liberty, diet, and methods of studying
> literature, and his many eccentricities were effective
> in impressing his ideas. It seems that he had been
> 
> granted an undesired "leave of absence" from Cra-
> cow because of his freedom of speech. In the stormy
> days which followed he took refuge in Savoy, whence
> he sent me his book on "The Meaning of Freedom,"
> and where later, as I learned through the Polish
> Relief Committee, he was on the verge of starvation.
> We then forwarded a little money from Stanford,
> but I have since heard nothing of his fate.
> The Bahai   Another visitor of the same year was the Bahai,
> Abdul Bahas, son of Baha O'llah, the famous Persian
> devotee, founder and head of a widespread religious
> sect holding as its chief tenet the Brotherhood of
> Man, with all that this implies of personal friend-
> liness   and international peace.   Through an   inter-
> 
> preter the kindly apostle expressed with convincing
> force a message accepted, in name at least, by good
> men and women all through the ages. He asked
> forsome of my own essays to be translated into
> Persian and cordially invited me to his abode of
> peace in the hills of Damascus.
> Still another apostle of good will, who came to us
> not long after, was Sir Wilfred Grenfell, the mission-
> ary physician of the bleak shores of Labrador. The
> story of his noble work has been so well told that I
> need only express my own appreciation of the man
> and my pleasure in presenting him to the students of
> the University.
> 
> On June 5, 1912, on the invitation of the German
> consul,   Von Bopp, I heard an address at the Fair-
>
> — *The Days of a Man (Used by permission of the curator)*