Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


"You remember, I told you I'd paid only two thousand down on the
land," Mrs. Mortimer complied. "That left me three thousand to
experiment with. Of course, all my friends and relatives
prophesied failure. And, of course, I made my mistakes, plenty of
them, but I was saved from still more by the thorough study I had
made and continued to make." She indicated shelves of farm books
and files of farm magazines that lined the walls. "And I
continued to study. I was resolved to be up to date, and I sent
for all the experiment station reports. I went almost entirely on
the basis that whatever the old type farmer did was wrong, and,
do you know, in doing that I was not so far wrong myself. It's
almost unthinkable, the stupidity of the old-fashioned farmers.
Oh, I consulted with them, talked things over with them,
challenged their stereotyped ways, demanded demonstration of
their dogmatic and prejudiced beliefs, and quite succeeded in
convincing the last of them that I was a fool and doomed to come
to grief."

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