. Architects of fate : or, Steps to success and power : a book designed to inspire youth to character building, self-culture and noble achievement. ures, gaunt form, melancholy, a poor wan-derer; but he never gave up his idea; he poured oat hisvery soul into his immortal poem, ever believing thatright would at last triumph. Columbus was exposed to continual scoffs and indig-nities, being ridiculed as a mere dreamer and stigma-tized as an adventurer. The very children, it is said,pointed to their foreheads as he passed, being taught toregard him as a kind of madman. Think of an old man and a bo
. Architects of fate : or, Steps to success and power : a book designed to inspire youth to character building, self-culture and noble achievement. ures, gaunt form, melancholy, a poor wan-derer; but he never gave up his idea; he poured oat hisvery soul into his immortal poem, ever believing thatright would at last triumph. Columbus was exposed to continual scoffs and indig-nities, being ridiculed as a mere dreamer and stigma-tized as an adventurer. The very children, it is said,pointed to their foreheads as he passed, being taught toregard him as a kind of madman. Think of an old man and a boy starting out to redeema world! Sublime pluck and determination, that ofMohammed, working three long years to gain thirteenconverts, and then calling a meeting of forty of his kin-dred and telling them he was going to redeem mankindfrom the worship of wooden idols. Only one lad of six-teen could be induced to join him, Ali, and the meetingbroke up with laughter and ridicule. But Mohammedwent right on, publishing his doctrine to the pilgrimswho came to Mecca, or whoever would listen to was threatened with death, but nothing could stay. ROBERT FULTONThe divine insanity of noble minds,That never falters nor abates,But labors and endures, and waits,Till all that it foresees it finds,Or what it cannot find, creates. THE MAN WITH AN IDEA. 353 his determination. He had to hide in caves, and wascontinually fleeing for his life, which was in constantdanger. After thirteen years of great hardship, hefound forty men, one for each of the great tribes, boundtogether by an oath to kill him. Over rocks and desertsfor two hundred miles he fled from his enemies. Thehistory of the East dates from this flight, — the are familiar with his next ten years, forcing his doc-trine by the sword. Men no longer laughed at the manand boy reforming a world. Think of the power of anidea or sentiment in the mind of this persistent man, toestablish an empire larger than that of Kome ! Ever
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