Excerpt from The Authorized Pictorial Lives of James Gillespie Blaine and John Alexander Logan: Including Their Boyhood and Early Struggles, Successive Triumphs and Splendid Achievements in the Nation's Council Halls and Amid the Smoke and Carnage of Battle, Grand Qualities as Civic and Martial Leaders, and Eminent Public Services as Statesmen In this country, where the lurking poison of hereditary succession has not obtained, brain is the measure of fitness, and exaltation comes only through the avenues of intelli gence ...
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Excerpt from The Authorized Pictorial Lives of James Gillespie Blaine and John Alexander Logan: Including Their Boyhood and Early Struggles, Successive Triumphs and Splendid Achievements in the Nation's Council Halls and Amid the Smoke and Carnage of Battle, Grand Qualities as Civic and Martial Leaders, and Eminent Public Services as Statesmen In this country, where the lurking poison of hereditary succession has not obtained, brain is the measure of fitness, and exaltation comes only through the avenues of intelli gence to crown the brow of competence. Fame mantles her eyes with the veil of justice, lest favoritism should woo her from noble purposes, and she has, therefore, made courage, ability, honesty, and love of country the standard by which her heroes are judged and rewarded. The little boy born in a manger, nourished in poverty, denied the advantages of a country school, with labor in hand and ignorance for companionship, may yet draw conceptions of knowledge from the inherent genius implanted by universal citizenship; fame smiles not at his humble birth, but beck oning him on, leads through bright fields laden with the honey of aspiration, on, on to that proud pinnacle from which shines the beacon of lofty attainment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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