Editorial February 11, 1911 Issue

"LIVES OF GREAT MEN"

Annie M. Knott

It is scarcely possible to overestimate the influence upon others of the records of great characters, whether these records are found in Holy Writ or in secular history. No man was every truly great who did not at least attempt to right some wrong; and to do this effectively one must go against the current of popular opinion, which permits if it does not actually sanction the wrong. It may be that after many years have gone by we can see that the highest results might have been achieved by reformers without the great sacrifices made by them and sometimes demanded by them of others, but this does not in the least alter the fact that the truly great have always done better than any of their contemporaries could have done, else would some other one have carried the burden and brought to men the light of freedom.

Longfellow's beautiful lines,—

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