Noble Living and Grand Achievement: Giants of the Republic Embracing Lives Deeds and Personal Traits of Eminent Statesmen Great Generals Noted Reformers Successful Men of Business Distinguished Literary Men and Famous Women (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Noble Living and Grand Achievement: Giants of the Republic Embracing Lives Deeds and Personal Traits of Eminent Statesmen Great Generals Noted Reformers Successful Men of Business Distinguished Literary Men and Famous Women<br><br>It is impossible to say that all these lives differ in any one essential quality from lives which have been led under the old civilizations Of the European world. But in almost every one Of them the reader will find a certain quality which he does not find in the average biography of persons brought up under European forms. If we compare a typical American with a typical European the contrast is very strong. There is sometimes an American who has been educated in the European forms and there is sometimes an inhabitant of the old continent who has been educated in unconventional forms and in such a case the contrast between these two would not be strong. But speaking in general we may say that the book in the reader''s hands will give him if he reads it carefully a good conception Of what we mean when we speak Of the American type and so it will perhaps Show to him how the history of the world has been affected by that providence which in the discovery of America gave white paper for the writing of its history.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.