HEROISM The
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Interest these fine stories
power of
have for us, the
romance over the boy who grasps the forbidden book under his bench at school, a
our delight in the hero, purpose."
the main fact to our
is
All these great and transcendent pro-
perties are ours.
we
If
pride.
small houses.
The
this great
first
It
Is
we
that
same sentiment.
are already domesticating the
Let us find room for
beholding the
dilate In
Roman
Greek energy, the
guest in our
step of worthiness will
be to disabuse us of our superstitious associa-
and times, with number and
tions with places size.
Why
should these words, Athenian, Ro-
man, Asia and England, so tingle
Where
the heart
Is,
in the ear?
there the muses, there the
goHsTojourn, and not in any geography of fame. NTSsachusetts^ Connecticut River arid Boston
Bay_you~thTrik paltry -places, and the ear loves
names of foreign and
classic
we are and. If we will may come to learn that here here
topography. tarry a
;
on ly th at thyself
is
here,
is
and
best. art
But we
little,
See to
It
and nature,
Supreme B eing shall not be absent Irom the chamber where thou sittest. Epaminondas, brave and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olymho pe and
fate, frien ds,
angels and the
pus to die upon, nor the Syrian sunshine.
He