. Contemporary American biography . for sculpture, aroused in his mind the idea of going to Italy to study, and made therealization of that idea possible, thus developing one of the most distinguished of Americansculptors, to whose memory the bronze doors of the National Capitol at Washington will everstand as a monument. It is the quality of friendliness and practical kindliness to individuals,and the broad, comprehensive love of humanity, that usually includes such special manifesta-tions of beneficent action as we have cited—one of many, doubtless, which unlike the many isa matter of common
. Contemporary American biography . for sculpture, aroused in his mind the idea of going to Italy to study, and made therealization of that idea possible, thus developing one of the most distinguished of Americansculptors, to whose memory the bronze doors of the National Capitol at Washington will everstand as a monument. It is the quality of friendliness and practical kindliness to individuals,and the broad, comprehensive love of humanity, that usually includes such special manifesta-tions of beneficent action as we have cited—one of many, doubtless, which unlike the many isa matter of common knowledge—that rounds out and makes symmetrical the character ofWilliam T. Walters. With the rugged, energetic, purposeful mind of the man of affairs,successful in business, we have seen that there was merged the mind of the scholar, the idealist,the true connoisseur of the beautiful, and unto these we find added that broad sympathy andaltruism which makes the man of manifold and great capacities of greatest good to the ClL-iseo Ct /¥> /l^^jnnnA^ CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 171 CYRUS HALL MCCORMICK. It may be truly said that the victories of peace, while less spectacular and dramatic, arenone the less of vaster power upon the progress of mankind, and are more enduring than thoseof war. It is not, by any means, a mere nourish of rhetoric to say that some of these victoriesor achievements of Peace prepare the path of empire and must have perpetual operative forceupon the march of civilization. To mention any of the great inventions of the age is to over-whelm the mind with the throng of thoughts upon the tremendous results it has for instance the practical application of steam to travel and transportation, which hasvirtually annexed the uttermost corners of the earth to the great marts of trade. Or glance atthe less universal but still mighty effects of the invention of the Cotton-Grin. How it hasaugmented and multiplied many times over the
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