. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . d piracyreputable, it will not do to gauge Columbus by the standard of our day. It issufficient to say that he was great, in the fact that he put in practice what othershad only dreamed of Aristotle was sure of the spheroidicity of the earth, andwas certain that strange lands lay to the west: Columbus sailed and found;—he went, he saw, he conquered. And these pages cannot better be broughtto a close than by quoting what one of the most thoughtful of recent poets,Arthur Hugh Clough, has expressed in his lines, prompted no doubt by
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . d piracyreputable, it will not do to gauge Columbus by the standard of our day. It issufficient to say that he was great, in the fact that he put in practice what othershad only dreamed of Aristotle was sure of the spheroidicity of the earth, andwas certain that strange lands lay to the west: Columbus sailed and found;—he went, he saw, he conquered. And these pages cannot better be broughtto a close than by quoting what one of the most thoughtful of recent poets,Arthur Hugh Clough, has expressed in his lines, prompted no doubt by his visitto this country:— What if wise men had, as far back as PxoLEjri, Judged that the earth like an orange was round. None of them ever said, Come along, follow me, Sail to the West and the East will be found Many a day before Ever theyd come ashore. From the San Salvador, Sadder and wiser men, Theyd have turned back again; And that he did not, but did cross the sea, Is a pure wonder, I must say, to me. ^I. IT. B. CHAPTER II. SETTLING THE NEW THE MARIGNY HOUSE, NFW , WHERE LuUB PHILIPPEbluPPED IN I79S. A FEW years cover the be-ginnings of westward migrationfrom Europe and the BritishIsles. Great impulses seem tobe epidemic. The variety ofcauses which led to the plantingof the American colonies be-came operative under diversenational and race conditions, sothat they appear in history asthe synchronous details of acommon plan. As the readerfollows these pages and appro-priates all the wonderful andinspiring details of this une-qualed record of four centuries,his interest will deepen and his amazement will keep pace with his a barren shore, broken only by the roar of the surf, the cries of birdsand animals, and the whoop of the Indian, he will lay down the volume, havingdiscovered that civilization has followed the sun until the two oceans have met—connected by an unbroken tide of humanity ebbing and flowing from the Atlanticto the Pac
Size: 1738px × 1438px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthormabieham, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookyear1904
