Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian / Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America

by Charles Sumner Young

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Clara Barton’s simple life was long, and so full of stirring incidents that all the books will not record the whole of it.

Worcester (Mass.) Telegram.

Be not like dumb-driven cattle.

Longfellow—The Psalm of Life.

The Ox has therefore stretched his yoke in vain.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

And the plain ox,

That harmless, honest guileless animal,

In what has he offended? he whose toil,

Patient and ever ready, clothes the land

With all the pomp of harvest.

Thompson—The Seasons.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Much Ado About Nothing.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

Brillat Savarin.

The sign of true, not casual, progress, ... is the progress of vegetarianism ... more and more people have given up animal food. Tolstoi.

I had not then learned the mystery of nerves. Clara Barton.