. Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2 . med of it bynight, and felt as though there might be somepoor souls yet surviving of the lost marinersamong the Eskimos, whom to relieve fromtheir savage, dreary, deathlike existence he ii8 HAMILTON COUNTY, was personally called upon to attempt byevery attribute of humanity
. Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2 . med of it bynight, and felt as though there might be somepoor souls yet surviving of the lost marinersamong the Eskimos, whom to relieve fromtheir savage, dreary, deathlike existence he ii8 HAMILTON COUNTY, was personally called upon to attempt byevery attribute of humanity. Some of his townsmen, when they finallylearned of his preparing to start off on aself-constituted expedition in search of thesurvivors of the Franklin Expedition, and,moreover, heard that he designed makingscientific observations of natural phenomena,replied, with supercilious smiles : Pshaw !what in the way of Arctic explorations andscientific investigations can this fellow do ?Why he is nothing but a common seal en-graver, they said, who has received butthe common schooling, and perhaps only froma common Yankee school-marm at that, andwho in all his life hasi accomplished nogreater feat than engraving the initials ofsundry nobodies upon wedding-rings, Withthis do I thee wed! Such commentators, with any amount of. CHAS. F. HALL. scholarly drill, prove incapable of a freshthought, or else it would flash upon them, asit would upon any bright, well-read lad offifteen, that the great names that come downto us from Moses to Socrates, from Shakes-peare to one Ben Franklin, and almost theentire line of original inventors, Edison in-clusive, are largely those of individuals whowere powerless to display parchments ofgraduation. They seem dead to the fact thatupon the basis of a common school education,with the abundant printed aids of our time—advantages which Moses and the prophets,Socrates and the popes, had not—for the in-vestigation of almost any single topic, thatthe natural
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