The Pageant of Life by Owen Francis Dudley

A Human Drama - Problems of Human Happiness IV

From the author's note:
"In Pageant of Life, I have endeavoured to present, in addition to the human interest of the happenings related, an antithesis to that modern cowardice which manifests itself in the vogue for the vague and non-committal; the convenient dilettantism which questions everything, holds nothing, and funks the hard facts of truth. If my antithesis appears violent, it is avoidably so; for violence is the inevitable accompaniment of an act of moral heroism such as I have described."

Reprint from 1946 edition, 343pp