The Builders of the Nation (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Co, Stanley-Bradley Publishing) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Builders of the Nation It is the purpose of this work to give to a busy age an epitome of the nation´s life compressed into one volume. The National Cyclopædia op American Biography, from which this matter is drawn, presents the history of the country in its wide and varied aspects, and to such a length that it necessarily limits its circulation to a privileged few. It is aimed in this work to collect into a single volume, which can be placed in every hand, the main facts, and the great characters of our nation´s life. Biography is the basis of all history. It is the "home aspect of history," and through it only do we gain a knowledge of the causes, motives, and ideals that inspire and lead up to the events which mark its epochs. The importance of presenting to the world comprehensive biographical sketches and truthful likenesses of the men who have been foremost in projecting, advancing, and crystallizing the national government, is unquestioned. From Washington to the present administration, the men who have been called by the people to occupy the executive offices of the government, the opposing candidates presented by the minority party, the members of the judicial branch of the government, appointed by the executives, and the advisers called to their cabinets, represent the factors potential in advancing the prosperity, maintaining the honor, and holding in check the radicalism of the people. In the lives of these men the student of history of the country can readily discover the high purposes of its founders, the patriotic impulses of its defenders, and the virtue of its people. The lives of these builders show the processes of building, and disclose to view the edifice as it stands in all the beauty of its perfection; the work of but four generations, and the workmen our own fathers. As literature, art, education, the pulpit, and the press have helped along the progress of the country, keeping pace with its civic life, the men prominent in these departments of activity are rightly classed as builders of the nation. It is one of the chief aims of this work to group these biographies with reference to events and movements, so that the student is presented with the means for systematic study as well as for biographical reference. The value of biography as a study for the young has never been fully appreciated. The tendency in the past has been to direct our youth to the lives of Plutarch, rather than to the achievements of men of our own time. The imparting of moral force, which is the peculiar advantage of the study of biography, is lost by the purely ideal aspect in which the youthful imagination contemplates a Grecian sage, or a Roman hero. The spheres of distinction, in which they were illustrious, were so different from those to which men are now attracted that very little of wholesome incentive or needed encouragement can be derived from them. We behold them to admire, not to imitate. Therefore, in full harmony with the spirit of the age, as well as the wants of our nature, we offer these biographies of the builders of this newest and greatest of nations as exemplars of ideals which we can understand, and which will encourage old and young to better citizenship and sturdier faithfulness to our great heritage. For the average general reader to own the parent work, in its dozen imperial volumes, is beyond present hope. We have culled from its pages the roll of the master-builders, and present them at their work, showing its process, progress, and perfection. When this book is digested, the desire to add to this knowledge of the master-builders the minor and multiplied experiences of the twenty thousand, as earnest if not so conspicuous, workmen, will make the value of the parent Cyclopædia appreciated, and create a desire for its possession.
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