Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-22

Between parades there discussion Of the
question Who the five greatest in history
The question interesting but It can not be satisfactorily an
swersd
You may pick out thousand great women after other
and yet would not be satisfied to put of them
the FIVE greatest For instance:
of Russia She big in and in
She did big thing when she the disadvantage
birth and surroundings She camp follower not better
than established Russian
Empire probably and saved Peter Great who married her
of Charles XII of Sweden She did very simply by giving the
general all her ewey all the money she could and
peruadng him to 90 home and consider himself defeated beray
ing Charles MI She useful Russia big and an able
woman-but she was NOT among the FIVE greatest women
Then there the other Catherine of Russia German prn
married Russian emperor She able The
said about her private character the that she
She gave good organization Russia But she probably
would be placed properly the five worst women rather than
THE MOTHER OF THE GRAcCHL She was fine woman
and she bore hn sonswheh Is aooT[ he pest ng mat any
PERFORMER in the human Her boys probably
good unsesh heroic and patriotic that lived And
if they had lived two centuries later they might have saved
Rome great deal of trouble and postponed the downfall Of va
ton and the overwhelming thrush of barbarians
But the mother of the Gacch not the five greatest
QUEEN ELIZABETH wonderful she did
great deal for England And England did great deal for
her If had lived smaller country she would have been less
her rather than by her light But she
great diplomat than match for the cunning Spanish
ambassadors her And she knew enough not
get married to let do badly the work that she
able to do we'll But she NOT the five greatest
Marie Theresa of Austria able fighting citizen
against the greatest of Frederick the Great
struggle the welfare of her and her
she understood it. But she only determined woman
allowing the her fight when they suggested fight
ns. SHE not among the five greatest
Joan of Area beautiful character Everything that we know
about her is good very MUCH about
perhaps that history studying her accurately will find
her the MASCOT Of the French nation and the French
rather than the LEADER of that army
Her courageous and beautiful death-burned alive by the
church command Of England because when her
clothes we're taken from her she put on clothes Of mans
of
faith the Frenchmen doubt to fight
brave. intellectually however, she probably not great
Madame Roland was great way charmiugly
m her way great many Frenchmen from
stupid conservatism radicasm She talked for the revolution
which the needed-raca falkland she complained
all when the revolution finally cut of her head She to the
world interesting sentence her to the guone LIB
erty. been committed thy name It prob
able that she would have ved TO peaceful old age she mad moi
fooishly fallen in love with much younger man That hurt
her judgment She is NOT among the five greatest
CHARLOTTE CORDAY has been praised for than hun
years for stabbng Mara death his bath tub The adm
for this who committed murder based large
ly upon misunderstanding of the character of Mara
Until recently all those that talked of him including Carlyle
whose statements concerning him nearly all false We're too
near the French revolution to see ANYTHING but the blood AS Burke
said they only the feathers the aristocac and forgot the
dying bird, which was the French people
After Charlotte Corday had committed her murder aud
up her life for she admired because thought that she
had killed ignorant boodthrsy rant whom Carlyle spoke of
"horse-leech
republic basis with
any and.
powerful murdered When Mat
Charlotte corday woman who meant we'll
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The I'VE greatest Women Of course
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