. Benjamin West, his life and work; a monograph . TS EARLY IN HOME The longer I live the more certain I am that thegreat difference between men, the feeble and the power-ful, the great and the insignificant, is energy andinvincible determination—a purpose once fixed and thendeath or victory. That quality will do anything thatcan be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstan-ces, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature aman without it,—SiR T. FowELL Buxton, BENJAMIN Wkst was born October lo, 1738,one hundred and sixty-two years is a fact worthy of not
. Benjamin West, his life and work; a monograph . TS EARLY IN HOME The longer I live the more certain I am that thegreat difference between men, the feeble and the power-ful, the great and the insignificant, is energy andinvincible determination—a purpose once fixed and thendeath or victory. That quality will do anything thatcan be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstan-ces, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature aman without it,—SiR T. FowELL Buxton, BENJAMIN Wkst was born October lo, 1738,one hundred and sixty-two years is a fact worthy of note that the first sixleading American painters came in pairs. Cop-ley and West were born in 1737 and 1738;Stewart and Trumbull in 1756; Vanderlynin 1776 and Alston three years later. This isonly a minor illustration of the fact, oftenremarked, that the great men in the worldshistory have usually come in spots. West was born in what is now the town ofSwarthmore, Springfield Township, Pennsyl- o ain m En m CO H > CO DO Ox:z O o HO CO m 7D CO. Early Life in His Wilderness Home 21 vania. Gait says he was born in the town ofSpringfield. In the early days of Pennsyl-vania, and it is still a custom in New England,the town included the country side togetherwith two or three or more villages. It wassynonymous with the modern county. InPennsylvania the county has taken the placeof the town, and the town has been narroweddown to the limits of the village. This ex-plains Gaits remark. West was born in a house—a cut of whichis here given—which dates back to 1724,almost to the time when the first Friends landedin Pennsylvania. In 1873 ^ ^^^ broke out in thehouse which destroyed the interior, togetherwith some specimens of Wests boyish art onthe walls. The stone walls were left uninjured,and the house was restored by SwarthmoreCollege, to which the property now 1898 a granite slab was placed in the south-ern wall of the house, near the window of theroom in which West was
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