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Description: Biographical studies. Summary
at the end of each chapter provides summary information on each of the people
discussed within the chapter.
Classification: Biography - Autobiography /
Biography
Publication Date: 1910
Length: 375 pages / 10 Chapters
Illustrations: 12 portrait pen and ink illustrations
Book attributes: Printable / No security code needed
Book ID: GC-AMM-Stevenson
Download Size: 1.5 MB
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CONTENTS
I.—"MEN OF MIND"
II.—WRITERS OF PROSE
III.—WRITERS OF VERSE
IV—PAINTERS
V—SCULPTORS
VI.—THE STAGE
VII.—SCIENTISTS AND EDUCATORS
VIII.—PHILANTHROPISTS AND REFORMERS
IX.—MEN OF AFFAIRS
X.—INVENTORS
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CHAPTER I
"MEN OF MIND"
Time, however, has a wonderful way of testing thoughts,
of preserving those that are worthy, and of discarding those that are unworthy.
Just how this is done nobody has ever been able to explain; but the fact remains
that, somehow, a really great poem or painting or statue or theory lives on from
age to age, long after the other products of its time have been forgotten. And
if it is really great, the older it grows, the greater it seems.
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WRITERS OF PROSE
It is true of American literature that it can boast no name of
commanding genius—no dramatist to rank with Shakespeare, no poet to
rank with Keats, no novelist to rank with Thackeray, to take names only
from our cousins oversea—and yet it displays a high level of talent and
a notable richness of achievement. Literature requires a background of
history and tradition; more than that, it requires leisure. A new nation
spends its energies in the struggle for existence, and not until that
existence is assured do its finer minds need to turn to literature for
self-expression. As Poor Richard put it, "Well done is better than well
said," and so long as great things are pressing to be done, great men
will do their writing on the page of history, and not on papyrus, or
parchment, or paper.
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