John and Sebastian Cabot: A Four Hundredth Anniversary Memorial of the Discovery of America (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from John and Sebastian Cabot: A Four Hundredth Anniversary Memorial of the Discovery of America

The celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the declaration of American independence, and the world's fair at Chicago, commemorative of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, as well as the recent dedication of the tomb Of General Grant, and the erection of a beautiful equestrian statue of George Wash ington, were acts indicative Of a noble patriotism. Not withstanding the history of the world Shows a great pre ponderance of military hero-worship, rather than tributes to the grand heroes and leaders in the domain of ideas, yet there is much to encourage the thought that the grade of learning, Of civilization, of philosophy and religious ethics now foreshadowed, to distinguished the past from the future, will more and more predominate, to determine that the world's greater heroes are those whose labors culminate in producing the greatest degree of universal peace and happi ness without bloodshed and terror.

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