The Gavelyte, February 1910

''ll Unh r Id d H ro i m. 11\ 11°\\' l'l"I' \tnH1: \ , 'I~. • 111, l lit ... HI 1tiu11 \\U"" 1lt 1 ll,,•11 d h) lh1 1111lh1tr 11t Iii, • ._.,ntt flri1tnrl1·;1I 1·,111l1 •.. ,, I 1·ida., 1111{111 , l•Ph 11, nl \llin111•1 •, 1> , th,• , 1•111 of \11 I 11l1o111 ' nll".t• • The history of primaeval naLions is hornP Lo us in :-11,ng:-. to their hero ,'. Th' ]Hl~Ps whic:h record tlw progres.· of nations an· pagrs adorn cl with the r rord of arhi v nwnt:;i of the great ThP h roic d ed; of nob! men have n~ver failed to excite thP nerlm1ting prai"e nf an admiring worlcl . The plaudits of a thankful p ople r<>– :ound forever in praise If one who ha.- averted from a fatherland an impending peril. Every heart he>at; with admiration for mt-n who have changed the course of hi t,ory that life might be better and hap– pit-r to hL fellow-men. The \.YORLTl gi\'es honor to men of courage and heroi m, to men who have had the power to rlo the rleeds thP memory of which nation cheri, h with pride. The.'P chan.1 ·tern are placed in the realm of the heroic, they ,' tand out prt>-eminent and alon , alone like lofty pf>aks in the mountain range of greatneHs. It would not appear that an arlvanee of ciYilization has mater– ially int:rea ed thi tendency to hero-worship hut that sueh iH an in– herent trait of man and fn m time immemorial Pvery tribP anrl nation haYe honored the noblest and hraYest of their number. Thf' fic,,rc<:' Xomadic horde. that roamed the trackle:-8 waste of an . \rabian des– ert, after their own fa hion honored the accompli. hment ot' a claring cleed The Reel .\Ian that pierced the hi<lden my.-teri ::; of a primae– rnl forest pondered o'er the deed. of an honored warrior brave. The onward march of civilization has necessarily ehanged man's idem, of true greatness but still there dwell that attribute of human naturP which incites humanity to honor and to praist.> those who aecom– pli h gr ...at and heroic deeds Thu , every nation has its honored heroe , Germany ha her Bi mark, England, her Wellington, France. her Bonaparte, anrl America, her '1i' a, hington ancl her Lineoln.