Excerpt from Heroes of Peace The Old saying Of Andrew Fletcher, that he cared not who made the laws Of the people if he might make the songs, is famous. A peo ple's statues - their choice, or the choice imposed upon them, of the men to be publicly honored - are as important and influential as their songs; yet there is hardly any matter where the world is so backward, where it so seldom shows a high degree'of enlightenment, where it is SO Often barbarous or snobbish. Contemplate the Duke Of York's col umn (how many ...
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Excerpt from Heroes of Peace The Old saying Of Andrew Fletcher, that he cared not who made the laws Of the people if he might make the songs, is famous. A peo ple's statues - their choice, or the choice imposed upon them, of the men to be publicly honored - are as important and influential as their songs; yet there is hardly any matter where the world is so backward, where it so seldom shows a high degree'of enlightenment, where it is SO Often barbarous or snobbish. Contemplate the Duke Of York's col umn (how many know what Duke Of York?) and the Albert Memorial in London, yet without a monument to Shakespeare, and until yester day without a statue Of Milton or Of Cromwell! Under my window in Boston was dedicated the other day a statue of General Banks. Still nearer my window is the great equestrian statue Of General Hooker, quite dwarfing the modest figures Of Daniel Webster and Horace Mann farther back in the Statehouse yard. N ow, I have a very con siderable respect for General Banks and General Hooker; but I cannot forget that there is no statue in Boston Of Emerson or Lowell or Whittier or Longfellow, whom there is vastly higher reason, as there would be vastly greater benefit, for Boston to honor. There are statues Of General Glover and Colonel Cass, Of whose services not one reader in a thousand could give the slightest account; but there is no memorial Of John Adams or John Quincy Adams, the two great Massachusetts presidents Of the United States. 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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