George Washington an Address (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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It is not my purpose to detail to you the life of a man or to recite consecutively the history of a revolution. My task is rather to tell you in a plain way a few of the things which I deem best worth knowing about George Washington. The theme seems hackneyed enough, but much as it has been discussed, the last word has not yet by any means been said. Although Washington was born 171 years ago and has now been dead more than a century, we are but just beginning to know the real man. Like most great men he was not fully understood even by those contemporaries who apparently had the best opportunities for knowing him. Nor is this strange. Some fields of human activity develop men of simple and transparent lives-men to the very bottoms of whose souls all may see; but to achieve immortality, either in the field of politics or of war, argues a com plexity of mind and character not to be fathomed by every inquiring 'glance. Hence it is that the familiar friends of a dead statesman are sometimesfound disputing hotly above his grave as to what manner of man he really was.

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