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The Lives of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton
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There is no more instructive reading than faithful biogra phi'es of great men. Every period of the world's history is represented by a few lives and every important event of that period bears some relation to one or more of those lives; and the spirit of the period-is the spirit of those lives. Religion, philosophy, science, government, politics, have very little attraction for the common reader, or even the majority of students, when treated abstractly; they are dull, dry morsels, not easily assimilated by minds not abnormally disposed to ward them. But when the sympathy of the reader, or student, is awakened in a person who bears, in study or daily life, a close relation to the religion, philosophy, science, government, or politics, and the life is traced with interest, he rises from the reading of the story instructed and benefited. In writing the stories of the lives of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton, constant, care has been given to accuracy, to harmony and relationship of details with the absorbing themes of public interest with which the people associate them, and to the story-like features of their lives that will make the book interesting to the general reader.
There is no more instructive reading than faithful biogra phi'es of great men. Every period of the world's history is represented by a few lives and every important event of that period bears some relation to one or more of those lives; and the spirit of the period-is the spirit of those lives. Religion, philosophy, science, government, politics, have very little attraction for the common reader, or even the majority of students, when treated abstractly; they are dull, dry morsels, not easily assimilated by minds not abnormally disposed to ward them. But when the sympathy of the reader, or student, is awakened in a person who bears, in study or daily life, a close relation to the religion, philosophy, science, government, or politics, and the life is traced with interest, he rises from the reading of the story instructed and benefited. In writing the stories of the lives of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton, constant, care has been given to accuracy, to harmony and relationship of details with the absorbing themes of public interest with which the people associate them, and to the story-like features of their lives that will make the book interesting to the general reader.
486 pages, Paperback
First published March 9, 2013
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