LIST OF PORTRAITS.
| CHAP. | ||
| I. | [Phillips Brooks ] | Frontispiece |
| II. | [Oliver Hazard Perry] | |
| III. | [Walter Scott] | |
| IV. | [William Hickling Prescott] | |
| V. | [John Bunyan] | |
| VI. | [Richard Arkwright] | |
| VII. | [Victor Hugo] | |
| VIII. | James A. Garfield (missing from book) | |
| IX. | [Thomas Alva Edison] | |
| X. | [Andrew Jackson] | |
| XI. | John Greenleaf Whittier (missing from book) | |
| XII. | [Alexander Hamilton] | |
| XIII. | [Ralph Waldo Emerson] | |
| XIV. | [Thomas Jefferson] | |
| XV. | [Louis Agassiz] | |
| XVI. | [James Russell Lowell] |
ARCHITECTS OF FATE.
CHAPTER I.
WANTED—A MAN.
"Wanted; men:
Not systems fit and wise,
Not faiths with rigid eyes,
Not wealth in mountain piles,
Not power with gracious smiles,
Not even the potent pen:
Wanted; men."
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man.—JEREMIAH.
All the world cries, Where is the man who will save us? We want a man! Don't look so far for this man. You have him at hand. This man,—it is you, it is I, it is each one of us!… How to constitute one's self a man? Nothing harder, if one knows not how to will it; nothing easier, if one wills it.—ALEXANDRE DUMAS.
"'Tis life, not death for which we pant!
'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant:
More life and fuller, that we want."