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While the dreaming of dreams has led to great 

 achievements and successes, yet it has too often 

 led into the direction of failure and disaster. 



Joseph, wisest statesman of any age, dreamed 

 the dreams that led him to the throne of Egypt, 

 where his wise methods of action saved the Egyp- 

 tian and his own people from the ravages of fam- 

 ine. Aaron Burr was also a dreamer of dreams, 

 but his dreaming led him to the heights of 

 sovereign power and dignity in our nation, where 

 his methods of action made him to become the most 

 despised statesman of our history. 



The lives of these men have been exemplified in 

 the lives of thousands of men of smaller caliber who 

 have dreamed dreams and sought their accomplish- 

 ment. Some made good, the great majority failed. 

 Those farmer dreamers observed by the author 

 came to the city, as county office holders, or became 

 city merchants. They found themselves under 

 different environments. Their habits of life were 

 entirely changed which called for a greater ex- 

 penditure of money than that to which they had 

 been accustomed. They were exposed to tempta- 

 tions to which they had never been subjected be- 

 fore. They and their families became impreg- 

 nated with false notions of life and living. Upon 

 the farm opportunities for work were ever present, 

 which built up their better natures and made them 

 what God designed they should be. The city life 

 destroyed their opportunity for work and the curse 

 that follows, idleness, fell to their lot. 



When the terms of office of these men expired 

 they and their families found themselves so tightly 

 bound with the cords of city environment that 



