. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. The man who made the modernGerman Empire needs no othertribute than the simple state-ment of the giant fact. History-will portray Bismarck as tower-ing head and shoulders higherthan all the throng of contem-porary statesmen, themaster-player of thegame of statecraft onthe European chess-board, kings, armiesand parliaments hispieces and empires forthe stakes. Very few men havewrought such grandresults with homeliertools. Conquerors, animated by sordid ambition, have changedthe faces of maps by reckless use of po
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. The man who made the modernGerman Empire needs no othertribute than the simple state-ment of the giant fact. History-will portray Bismarck as tower-ing head and shoulders higherthan all the throng of contem-porary statesmen, themaster-player of thegame of statecraft onthe European chess-board, kings, armiesand parliaments hispieces and empires forthe stakes. Very few men havewrought such grandresults with homeliertools. Conquerors, animated by sordid ambition, have changedthe faces of maps by reckless use of power and then the silentforces of time have undone their handiwork. Glory, of asort, clings glitteringly around the crowns of these heartlesstramplers on mankinds right to peace ; but the glory of thedestroyer is one thing, and the glory of the constructor isanother. As love of ones own country is a nobler trait thanhatred of others, so is patriotic devotion to the task of con-solidating a nations interests and greatness an indisputablygrander title to immortal honor than all the
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