. The street railway review . rett Hale says that his boyhood belonged to the time when agentleman could do anything, and there was no task he might notennoble. Emerson cut wood during his college life to assist hisprogress. Plain living and high thinking was a badge of \gain, there were those who were born in the purple—sons of in-lierited wealth, and among these were Wendell Phillips and Rob-ert C. Winthrop, Independent of any necessity of earning a liv-ing, Mr, Winthrop had all his time to devote to the culture ofhis scholarly tastes. He belonged to a family whose name wasone of th
. The street railway review . rett Hale says that his boyhood belonged to the time when agentleman could do anything, and there was no task he might notennoble. Emerson cut wood during his college life to assist hisprogress. Plain living and high thinking was a badge of \gain, there were those who were born in the purple—sons of in-lierited wealth, and among these were Wendell Phillips and Rob-ert C. Winthrop, Independent of any necessity of earning a liv-ing, Mr, Winthrop had all his time to devote to the culture ofhis scholarly tastes. He belonged to a family whose name wasone of the illustrious group of Bradford, Endicott, Winslow andWinthrop. His ancestry includes many eminent names. RobertCharles Winthrop was born in Boston on May 12, 1800, and grad-uated from Harvard in the famous class of 29. The achieve-ments of his life were purely those of statesmanship, which dif-fers very widely from politics—and as a statesman it is perhapscritically true that he barely missed greatness, or, at least, the. WHITTIER S HOME—A all over it in ten minutes. The great literary era was opening. It will be remembered that a remarkable group of men andwomen were born within the first quarter of the nineteenth cen-tury. Edward Everett was liorn in 1794; Amos Bronson Alcottin 1799; Robert C. Winthrop in 1809; and within the next decadeHawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Theodore Parker, Emerson, Mar-garet Fuller, Longfellow, ^\hittier, JIary Livermore, James Free-man Clarke. Dr. Holmes, Sumner, Dr. Benjamin Pierce, WendellPhillips and other notable persons were born, and before1825 Lowell, RTiippie, Motley, Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Ed-ward Everett Hale, Col. Higginson, James T, Fields, Abbe Mor-ton Diaz, and, in the late years of the decade, 1830-40, were bornPhillips Brooks, Louise Chandler Moulton, Louisa Alcott and Aldrich. Not all these were born within the city limits of Boston, butall are, practically, Boston people, as this city was the generalscene of thei
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