The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-08-20

COmDaClVeneSS, winch, being com
. bined with courage, fortitude, pa
: triotism, ETC., is called heriosm, is
disposition that belongs in genera
to all the animal creation, from tn,
ants, which Darwin says, They g,
out to battle in regular bands, ant
freely sacrifice their lives for tn,
common weal''-from the ants, tt
the great kings who, either justly OF
unjustly, shake the world with theil
tremen GUS wars. Monkeys, it i.
said, have their wars and line up ii
Irregular order of battle. Lydecker
in his valuable Library of Natura
History, gives an interesting account
of such battle between some
monkeys, known as the true langur
and held sacred by the Hindus. Each
side of the combatants was lined uI
in battle order, but one champion
a large male, advanced from one
side, which was the weaker numer-
ically, while two large males ad-
vanced from the opposite side; the
two main armies standing still, as if
having agreed that the three cham
pions should settle the issue. The
conflict soon began, and presently
the sole champion had one of his an
| tagonists dead on the field, and pro-
ceeded to lay vigorously on the 9th
er; when two females rushed out
from the stronger side and igno-
miniously fell in on the heroic fell
low and soon had him PROSTATE.
The victorious side then captured
some of the others and held them as
prisoners of war
Mr.. Darwin tells of a company of
apes that were once attacked by a
pack OF dogs, whereupon they
clambered rapidly up the mountain
side but happened to leave one small
ape behind, which instantly set up
a frightful cry for help. Whereat a
large male ape, "a true hero" hur-
ried back, and, Selling the young
fellow, led him away in triumph,
while the dogs stared at him in 81
lent astonishment as if struck dumb
by his intrepidity.
True heroism in man, however, is
a moral, as well as a physical, quail
ty, and stimulated often by the
sentiments of love, freedom and
patriotism. Hence, men, who are
naturally timid, under the pressure
of high moral self-control, may prove
powerfully valient in the ire
mendous scenes of battle. Prince
Eugene was great and daring gem
eral; but Emerson relates of that
prince, that he once said it was all
he could do to keep his legs from
carrying him off the field of battle
at the sound of the first gun. This
m OF orf1,l oan4ro1 o.oh1oo
naturally valient to be more calmly
daring amid great dangers Marshal
Ney, whom Napoleon called 'the
bravest of the brave" and who
could march thru a storm of bullets
as calmly as if they were only flying
feathers, said that he never allowed |
at such times to think of the
danger.
True heriosm is a noble and lofty |
impulse or attribute of the human |
soul, and when united with honor
and patriotism, adds very high sort
of dignity and worth to the indi-
Great heroes, or military
leaders, thru all the ages have
proved in times of war, when coun-
Try, home and freedom were i'm
Deriled, a peoples and a nations
surest bulwark or rock of defense.
Hence, we all should be and are
rue hero-worshipers. In all ages
Ind among all people, the most as
ute and invincible heroes have ever
'eceived the peoples sincerest hom-
tge. 1t was this deep feeling of
tonnage, growing out of the hearts
loble gratitude, coupled with a
redulous, NEUROLOGICAL tendency of
mind, incident to blind faith, ;
a1thfully feeling after the divine
hat caused the rude, but valient, ;
I'D Norsemen to defy their great {
zero, Odin; the Greeks to defy Her {
ules and even Alexander the Great;
he Romans, Romulus and Caesar.
We do not defy even our greatest
eroes any longer, but the man, es-
ecially ii he be an American, who
oes not deep in his heart honor,
We, revere, the name of Washington {
trust him not. 1
The impulse in the human heart
hat prompts us to pay high honors l
. the patriotic heroes that stand .
Ike ring of fire, to defend our a
ONES, our alter and our freedom, |
no mean impulse, but a most Il
oble one and grows out of the in e
erent qualities of heroism and pa a
'iotism that throb and beat in the e
osom of every man, that is worth =
he name. There is no better evil o
ence, says Carlyle, of small man a
ian failure to honor great men. lf
an mate law of attraction, that n
there's among men as it does among p
lie planets, we are naturally drawn Il
ward those who possess in equal n
greater parts those qualities of VI
ind or characters that are large tt
dominant in us. Hence, the man il
large and exalted endowments of W
ind or character, admires those al
at are similarly constituted; and k
is only the most pusilanimous fl
ward who does not feel any kind in
1g of his blood toward at least IL
pable, patriotic and heroic soul. "
exander, Caesar, Napoleon, Wash ca
gton-the bare names of these al
en- touch the heroic in our own Sc
uls as with an electric current; ii
pull ourselves up and feel strong 81
and more valient. In reading of m
e daring deeds of these men, and I'll
hers like them, we almost in az