Memories of William N. Sherman (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Memories of William N. Sherman Different nations have different standards of human excellence. In the view of the ancients, and, at the present time, in the view of uncivilized races, the man to be honored is the man of physical strength and power. He who has the broadest shoulders, he who stands the tallest, and can with the greatest vigor draw the bow - he is the man to be esteemed, he is the hero. Indeed, this criterion of excellence has prevailed more or less among civilized nations. We are told that "Saul was a choice young man and a goodly, and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he, from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people." It was no small recommendation to Saul in the view of his countrymen with reference to the position of power he was to occupy that he was head and shoulders taller than any other man. Among nations representing a higher type of civilization and refinement, the standard of excellence becomes one of mental power, intellectual genius. Such, in the main, is the standard in all civilized and enlightened countries to-day. The great man in Europe to-day is the man who is great in the military, the scientific, the literary, or the æsthetic world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.