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Title: Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York, W. H. Sadlier
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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subtlety, what fine perception ofanalogies, what a critical analysis of all the elements wliich constitute prol>abilitySuch men, if not original discoverers, are discoverers of a still higher order. Thejcay hold of the neglected germ which original discovery had flung on (he harsh rocksof incredulity, and develop it into an august and glorious system of demonstratedverity. They seize the -little spark of Promethean fire which was just about toperish in the fogs of forgetfulness, and by it they rekindle the universe Into a blazeof exulting hope. If, therefore, we admire Columbus less as the hardy adventurer (who with aidogged and desperate resolution, hoping against hope, launched forth on the Atlan«tic to discover he knew not what), we reverence him more than ever as the keen-sighted and philosophic truth-searcher, who, from the accumulated history of ages,n the haucrhty independence of conscious genius, moulded a most refined yetdemonstrable theory of facts.—2>w6^i«, Beview
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