The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-29

N'A AANAp CL elIeIluityb was 'AiS eOtA c@ Zens. When Pallas sent Diomed into battle.
 "............ upon his head and shield she caused a constant flame to play, like to the autumnal star, that shines in heaven most brightly when new bathed in oceans tides"
 There is joy in unstinted admira- ton. It eliminates in worship, For what is worship, but admiration rising, almost reaching to ecstacy? We yearn for the heroic; and are ever, even if unconsciouSly, in quest of it. Hence the number of idols that we Americans frame and are obliged, after little, to break! The genius of Carlyle is shown even in the title of his book, Hero Worship" The fault of his ideal of he roism, it is needles to say, is it's dei- lying of energy. It is greatness in what ever form that Carlyle adores. It is not that he really means to approve of im- morality. But with him, energy and sincerity are the two notes of the he TO. The fetish h-worshipper, he tells us, let him entirely believe in his fetish" is not in so bad way. Carlyle gathers into one category of heroes men of pow @-- SAAJ erary genius leads him to turn Goethe into hero-Goethe who certainly was not patriot, and who used the same love sonnets for one after another of the women with whom for the time he was enamored. The hero, be he only sin cere, is permitted to do what he pleases to accomplish his end. Of Mohammed's propagating his religion by the sword, we read: q care little about the sword. | will allow a thing to struggle for it. self in this world with any sword, or tongue, or implement it has or can lay hold of." We will let it do, beak and claws, whatever is in it." As if there were no other curb required for man, being with free and responsible na- ture, than for creatures armed with beak and claws, and with no motive { force but instinct! In his greatest work, the masterly work on the French revo- luton, 1t is well that, as far as he car rled the subject, he lighted on no hero to glorify. As to his Frederic II. of Prussia, it may be too much to say, that Carlyle had to manufacture his hero; but he had to assist what nature did, by considerable strain of muscle. | N-1NAA 4ACS their contemporaries; they continue to enchant generations that follow They dazzle later corners who gaze back up- on their career. They move these to be- lieve what it gives them pleasure to be- l1eve. They disarm criticism. Alexan- der of Macedon, as military genius, was praised by Hannibal, the only an- cient commander who can be thought superior to him. But with what fabu- lous designs has he not been credited the design, for example, to Hellenize Asia, when his aim was rather to Asi- atize Europe, and to make himself a despot after the Persian fashion, with the world under his feet It takes a clear-sighted man and, if you will an austere moralist like Niebuhr, to char acterize him as an adventurer-one who in the spirit of a gambler, wantonly staked his all on military success. Ma poleon, far greater man than Alexan- der-hoW many writers has he captivat- ed by the variety and energy of his intellectual powers! How have the en- thusiastS ignored his unblushing men dacity, his petty tyranny within his court his unmanly petulance his heartless indifference to the sacrifice of human life! It is a signal merit, per- init me to say, of the monumental work of our associate, Professor Sloane, that he holds the scales of justice with a steady hand. His concluding sum- i every line.
 But hero worship, however extrava- gant is really less to be deprecated in | the historian than the propensity to pull real heroes down from their pedes- tals. There is no greater good to na- tion than to have at least one man who I is justly enshrined in popular venera- tion-one at least whose name is in a certain way sacred. Such a name is that of Washington. Washington was not an orator; yet John Adams, the great ora- tor of the revolution, wrote that, in the first congress, he heard from "Col. Washington" the most eloquent speech that was made there. Washing ton rose and said: q will raise one thousand men, equip them at my own expense, and march them to the relief of Boston," Even Jefferson says that Washington was incapable of fear. High-spirited, with self-respect which no man ventured to invade, yet tenn pered with a just respect for all others, and with a power of self-government never surpassed; welcoming counSels, yet never yielding to dictation, and d-nev- CT carried off his feet by currents of opinion, he was patriot, without self ishness and without guile. Why search when search is vain, for flaws in his character? Never was his wisdom more apparent, and, I venture to add never did his military capacity shine forth more brightly than at the present mo- ment. Why seek for distinction by fumbling the noses of the gods?
 It is the glory of England that there are so many historic names which are held, or will be, by the English people, in universal honor. What lesson to all coming time is the course of man like Sir Robert Peel, of whom Wellington said, "Of all the men I ever knew, he had the greatest regard for truth" Twice in his career he braved the wrath of the disappointed and exasperated party-first, when he brought the Cath ollie disabilities bill into parliament and again, when he set about the repeal of the Corn laws. You remember hs closing words, after he had done justice to the conscientious motives of a DOT tion of his antagonists: T shall leave a name execrated by every monopolist
 who. from less honorable motives