ence through the literatures of all nations second only
to Shakspeare's. We see the sailor-boy Garibaldi, the commander-in-chief
and savior of Uruguay in South America, the idol and king-maker of
Italy, and the stern patriot without rank or gew-gaw on

THE ROCK OF CAPRI,

a joining of the characters of such men as Socrates and Washington. We
see Disraeli, a poor boy and we see Disraeli more powerful than any
other man on earth. We look at Gladstone as a boy starting in life,
determined to be a scholar. We hear his glorious voice, we read his
books, we study the laws he has framed, we watch the empire he governs,
and we feel he succeeded in his boyish ambition. Everywhere--in the
lives of Agassiz, Humboldt, Proctor, Seward, Farragut, Nelson,
Abercrombie, Joseph E. Johnston, Longstreet, Stanton, Aspinwall,
Lorillard, Ayer, Helmbold, Scott, Garrett, Ralston, Garner, Watson,
Howe, Singer, Steinway, McCormick, Morse, Edison, Bell, Gray,
Applegarth, Hoe, Thomas, Wagner, Verdi, Jurgensen, Picard, Stephenson,
Fulton, Rumsey, Fitch, Lamb, Fairbanks, Corliss, Dahlgren, Parrot,
Armstrong, Gatling, Pullman, Alden, Crompton, Faber, Remington, Sharp,
Colt, Daguerre, Bessemer, Goodyear, Yale, Keene, Gould, Villard,--and

IN THE LIVES OF THE THOUSANDS

which my limits exclude me from mentioning, there is the example of the
hard worker, the promise of results that will follow a well-directed
effort. "In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one
was never to die"--that is, pay attention only to the object aimed at. I
remember a man of success who meant to break up housekeeping and go to
Europe on a matter of business. This was the first of January. The fact
that the weather suddenly turned cold to the extent of thirty degrees
below zero did not seem to attract his attention. He was absent-minded
on that question! When it came to going out to hire an expressman to
haul his effects to a storehouse he found no one would venture out with
his horse until the thermometer should rise, and his astonishment knew
no bounds! He had been

SO IN THE HABIT OF RIDING OVER OBSTACLES

that his distress was very noticeable when he was compelled to wait in
idleness for three days. Never allow obstacles to stop you. When the
waters meet an obstacle they run around it. So do the ants. Read the
lives of successful men. Watch successful men. "We are less convinced by
what we hear than what we see," said Herodotus thousands of year