. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . INTRODUCTION. BY EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D. D., Author of The Man Without a Country, THE history of mankind is made upof the biographies of men. This is asimple enough thing to say, and yet itwould seem, from a good many histories,that it had never occurred to their is quite certain, however, that we appre-ciate and understand the history of ourrace most thoroughly, in those periodswhere we know of the personal lives ofmany of the actors. The periods wherewe do not know anything of individuallives are to us dreary d
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . INTRODUCTION. BY EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D. D., Author of The Man Without a Country, THE history of mankind is made upof the biographies of men. This is asimple enough thing to say, and yet itwould seem, from a good many histories,that it had never occurred to their is quite certain, however, that we appre-ciate and understand the history of ourrace most thoroughly, in those periodswhere we know of the personal lives ofmany of the actors. The periods wherewe do not know anything of individuallives are to us dreary deserts. For in-stance, it would probably be fair to say that the reason we the Dark Aofes that bad name, is that most of us knowlittle or nothing of the personal movementsor of individual lives of men and womenin those book in the readers hands is compiled in the effort to bring togetherthe lives of a hundred men and women who have led the United States sincethe middle of the last century. It is a very remarkable series. The people ofthe United States in that time have exhibited a genius for the science of govern-ment, such as the world
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