The weekly tribune., 1893-08-18
THE HERO OF TODAY.
ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER WHICH
RAISE MAN TO THE FORE.

Au"iress as is Nation Oy the hind OF
Men She Honors-Courage Is Not the
Only Quality Requisite In N Hero.
It is truth which has not yet come to
be fully realized that much of the char
ncter Of an individual depends upon his
ideas of heroism. What he admires and
honors is good test Of what he is, or
rather what he longs to be, and his heroes
will always have Il strong attractive
force, which will draw him as far as pos
sible into their sphere In all the various
types of the hero ono quality remains
forever prominent-courage. The can
nibal who has distinguished himself by
the number Of his murders, the robber
chieftain who had held thousands at bay,
the Indian with his belt adorned with
scalps. the duelist who holds his life
cheaper than his fancied honor, have all
in times past been regarded as heroes,
and whatever estimate they now receive
no one denies their courage.
Equally so. the martyr who goes cheer
fully to the stake; the man who braves
obloquy and contempt for truth as he
holds it; he who risks his life to save an
other. or devotes it unreservedly to the
good of mankind; one who can bear and
endure. and another who can dare and
do; all are, in turn, heroes to those who
appreciate them, and all are distin-
guished by the same element-courage
Whatever be the virtue or the vice; what
ever the cause engaged in; whatever the
motives which govern the life-no one
has everl been made hero, even in
thought. unless in some way he has shown
strength and bravery. Cowardice and
weakness. pusillanimity and fear, are op-
posed in their very essence to all hero
ism. and no merits, however great, can
form connecting link between them.
The mistake, however, which has long
been made. and which we are only be-
ginning to correct, is that courage alone
can make hero. To some extent we
have given up this notion. Our present
heroes are no longer cannibals or rob-
bers or duelists. however courageous
such men may have been. We have
come to admit that something else must
be united to bravery to create heroism.
And what is that something else? Is it
and ;ts interests Tho clad ond n,;,,;nn
sacrifice for something higher than
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