The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-26

success?
Doctor Harvey, who discovered
the circulation of the blood, lost
his practice and died in perjury
because he was so far ahead of
his profession that his patients
thought him a lunatic. He was
financial failure, but he left a
legacy to mankind richer in re-
suits than all the fertile fields
watered by the Nile, or all the
swamp plantations from Lake
Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico.
DIR. ]. Marion Sims was a South
ern man and the most famous
physician in the world. He was
honored by imperial courts and
decorated by half the crowned
heads of Europe for his wonder
full achievements in surgery that
have saved from a life of misery
and a lingering death thousands
of women in every civilized quar-
ter of the globe. He was a tri-
umphant success, but a financial
failure.
Oliver Crom and all the
leading officers of the invincible
army, except John Hampden,
were poor men, yet they brought
the head Of Charles 1. to the
block and planted in the soil of
England the germ of that degree
of civil and religious freedom
that prevails in the British En-
pire today.
William Pitt, Charles Fox and
Edmund Burke, the three great
est statesmen, orators and prime
ministers in the history of Eng
land were financial failures. Pitt
and Burke we're born poor Fox
inherited property and squan-
dered it. History says they were
too deeply absorbed in taking
care of the interests of their
country and fellow men to have
time to make money.
The two Herschels, father and
son, whose combined careers
cover an active period of ninety
years, were financial failures,
and yet it was said of them, if,
at any hour of that ninety years,
the question had been asked,
What are the Herschels dOing?"
the reply might safely have been
given, They are doing some
thing for the good of mankind. "
Socrates and Plato, Homer and
Virgil, and Shakespeare and
Milton were financial failures.
Calico and Bruno and Copper
nicus who measured the heavens
and revealed the 'handiwork"
of God in the glories of the Uni
verse, were financial failures.
Measured by the standard Of
the gold dollar. Christ, himself,
was not a success. Weighed in
the balance of a Delta Planta-
ton" he was a financial failure;
for though he was the Prince of
Price, he was a pauper in Pales-
tine; though he was the King of
Kings, as a business man" he
was the carpenters son, without
purse or script, or where to lay
his head. )"
Financial failures have pulled
down thrones. demolished bas-
tiles, behe AIDED kings, exiled en-
perors, driven arrogant mobiles
to the cover of cowardice and
made fugitives of aristocratic
tops.
Financial failures have written
constitutions, enacted laws and |
established courts. They have |
peopled the art galleries Of the
ages with the creations Of genius,
the refinement Of taste and the |
beauties of imagination.
They have stocked the libraries
of law, medicine, science, theol- |
ogy, history, poetry and romance.
Financial failures made the
and started the in
ventions that move the machin-
cry of commerce and trade: that
wrapped telegraph wires around
the globe and converted land and
sea into one vast whispering
gallery.
In every period of mans his
history, financial failures have
lighted the fires of civilization
md burned the incense of patri-