. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . ln was the worldsgreatest man. Even as they rumbled over the bridge and looked across country to-ward the rolling land where, when all was forest or scarcely-won clearing,the great American was born, Uncle Tom dropped into poetry, as he some-times would, and gave to his boys and girls those fine lines from Lowellsmatchless tribute in his Commemoration Ode. It seems to fit just in this place, he said: Nature, they say, doth dote,And cannot make a manSave on some worn-out plan,Repeating as by ro
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . ln was the worldsgreatest man. Even as they rumbled over the bridge and looked across country to-ward the rolling land where, when all was forest or scarcely-won clearing,the great American was born, Uncle Tom dropped into poetry, as he some-times would, and gave to his boys and girls those fine lines from Lowellsmatchless tribute in his Commemoration Ode. It seems to fit just in this place, he said: Nature, they say, doth dote,And cannot make a manSave on some worn-out plan,Repeating as by rote ;For him, the Old-World moulds aside she threw,And, choosing sweet clay from the breastOf the unexhausted West,With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. How was he different from anybody else? asked Bert. You callhim new and the American. Have nt we had other men as American ?What s the matter with Franklin ? Nothing is the matter with him, Bert, said Uncle Tom. Franklin,in a way, was the most characteristic American ; certainly, up to the time of. ALL ABOARD FOR ST. LOlIS ! BESIDE THE MISSISSIPPI 177 Lincoln, he was the greatest American—as an American. But Lincolnwas a new type. Franklin had quite other environments, and was broad-ened and deepened by foreign travel and education. Lincoln was all Amer-ican. Had he never been Presi-dent he would have carved outa career that would have beenunique in our history; for helearned from experience and aknowledge of men how to mathe most of opportunity, and t
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