A WARNING TO THE READER 



ories that keep tradition alive. We have an accumulated 

 experience that warns us to welcome the new, be it a 

 gadget, or a man, or an idea, as something to be tested 

 and proved. It is a habit of thought that provokes some 

 of our fellow Americans. But then, it seems to us that 

 they frequently make the careless mistake of identify- 

 ing change with progress. If the atmosphere of the 

 settled community breeds conservatism, it also engen- 

 ders faith in America's past and a vibrant confidence 

 in its future. 



Southerners are throwing off that deadening apathy 

 which is a pernicious variety of in-growing conserv- 

 atism gone to seed. Their faith has been reaffirmed; 

 their confidence, rejuvenated. To a New Englander 

 sensitive to this cast of thought, the great revolution 

 in the South is that Southerners are looking, not back- 

 ward, but forward. 



That is why I have called this book "Southern 

 Horizons." 



WILLIAMS HAYNES 

 Stonecrop Farm, 

 Stonington, Connecticut 



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