The Life of Clara Barton (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Epler, Percy H.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Life of Clara Barton "It is fully within bounds to say that there is no surviving American of either sex whose autobiography, if fully given, would constitute so thrilling and so fascinating a narrative as that of Miss Clara Barton." Twenty years ago American public opinion was thus expressed in a representative editorial. Though Miss Barton´s life had even then reached its meridian and had made history enough for several biographies, none had been written and none has appeared up to this time. At the present moment unusual interest would seem to be attached to her life story. Amid the terrible catastrophes of the nations that now confront us, the biography of the Angel of the Battle Field cannot but afford a mighty stimulant. It is an inspiration for the relief of suffering, an encouragement to pity and mercy. These are the human emotions which it must inevitably prompt. While such feelings may not always be able to prevent war, they can and do help us prepare a table of relief in the midst of titanic foes of destruction. Clara Barton´s mission was not to glorify war. "Men have worshiped war," she declared, "till it has cost a million times more than the whole world is worth, poured out the best blood and crushed the fairest forms the good God has ever created. - Deck it as you will, war is - ´Hell.´ ... The war side of war could never have called me to the field. All through and through, thought and act, body and soul - I hate it. ... Only the desire to soften some of its hardships and allay some of its miseries ever induced me, and I presume all other women who have taken similar steps, to dare its pestilent and unholy breath." Her "work and words," she insisted, ´were for the individual soldier - what he does, sees, feels or thinks in these dread hours of leaden rain and iron hail." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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