[The Iron Heel by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookThe Iron Heel CHAPTER II 5/40
With the enthusiasm of a boy he plunged excitedly into these new pursuits, regardless of whither they led him. He had been used always to the laboratory, and so it was that he turned the dining room into a sociological laboratory.
Here came to dinner all sorts and conditions of men,--scientists, politicians, bankers, merchants, professors, labor leaders, socialists, and anarchists.
He stirred them to discussion, and analyzed their thoughts of life and society. He had met Ernest shortly prior to the "preacher's night." And after the guests were gone, I learned how he had met him, passing down a street at night and stopping to listen to a man on a soap-box who was addressing a crowd of workingmen.
The man on the box was Ernest.
Not that he was a mere soap-box orator.
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