Excerpt from Best American Orations There were giants in the earth in those days. What days? Whenever giants were needed. In the time of personal physical force, as in the ancient Hebrew tradition quoted, the mighty men of old were heroes of battle. In succeeding ages, every great national crisis seems to have developed the strong men for its needs. So has it been in Amer ica. The Colonial, Revolutionary, and Constructive periods had their giants; the day of expanding terri tory, commerce, and manufactures, with confl ...
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Excerpt from Best American Orations There were giants in the earth in those days. What days? Whenever giants were needed. In the time of personal physical force, as in the ancient Hebrew tradition quoted, the mighty men of old were heroes of battle. In succeeding ages, every great national crisis seems to have developed the strong men for its needs. So has it been in Amer ica. The Colonial, Revolutionary, and Constructive periods had their giants; the day of expanding terri tory, commerce, and manufactures, with conflicting sectional interests and discussion of the mutual relations of the States and the Union, had its cham pions; and the culminating struggle over Slavery, involving the very existence of the Union and the Constitution, bred its men of might, both civil and military, on both sides of the vast conflict. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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