. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... aordinary work must throw de-tails on others, and scheme for leisure. Cobden neverdid anything he could hire any one else to do. He savedhimself to do work that to others was is to say, he picked his men, and he chose menof his own type, healthy, restless, eager, enthusiastic,honest men ^ The criticism of Disraeli that Cobdensucceeded in business simply because he got otherpeople to do his work, is sternly true. It proves thegreatness of Cobden. ND so we find Richard Cob-den, the man who never hadyz^^^^WiXXK^^mS^ ^y chance i
. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... aordinary work must throw de-tails on others, and scheme for leisure. Cobden neverdid anything he could hire any one else to do. He savedhimself to do work that to others was is to say, he picked his men, and he chose menof his own type, healthy, restless, eager, enthusiastic,honest men ^ The criticism of Disraeli that Cobdensucceeded in business simply because he got otherpeople to do his work, is sternly true. It proves thegreatness of Cobden. ND so we find Richard Cob-den, the man who never hadyz^^^^WiXXK^^mS^ ^y chance in life, thirty years^S^^VS^^JSOh^^ o^d, -with an income equal to thirty-five thousand dollars a year, and at the head of a con-stantly growing business. Hehad acquired the study habitten years before, so really w^eneed shed no tears on accountof his lack of college knew political history—knew humanity—and he knew his Adam Smith. Andlo! cosmic consciousness came to him in a day jt Hispersonal business took second place, and world- 123. GREAT REFORMERS—Richard Cobden problems filled his waking dreams. Q These secondbirths in men can usually be traced to a book, a death,a person, a catastrophe—a -woman. If there was anygreat love event in the life of Cobden I would make noeffort to conceal it—goodness me! But the sublimepassion was never his, otherwise there would havebeen more art and less economics in his nature. Yetfor -women he al-ways had a high and chivalrousregard, and his strong sense of justice caused him tospeak out plainly on the subject of equal rights ata time -when to do so was to invite so let X, Miss X—symbol the cause of RichardCobdens re-birth J> He placed his business in thecharge of picked men, and began his world-career bygoing across to Paris and spending three months instudying the language and the political situation. Hethen moved on to Belgium and Holland, passed downthrough Germany to S-witzerland, across to Italy,
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