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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1917 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX Torch Bearers in Letters 10WELL speaks of the whirling earth, the wanly dering winds, the falling rain and the rising and setting suns that it takes "to prosper a poor little violet." Who can tell us what additional forces it takes to make a man of letters? Who can measure the far-off blended strains of race and inheritance that appear and reappear? Who can measure the strength and quality of the imagination that the writer employs in making use of nature, of environment, of people, and of the increment of civilization, past and present? As the pioneers found the rivers the first highways of travel, and settled along their valleys and on their banks, so we to-day can look back to these places and see Torch Bearers in letters up to the present time. Coming down the Ohio and beginning at Lawrenceburg in the southeastern part of the State, there was Henry Ward Beecher, a young man of twenty-three, who had come to take charge of his first pastorate and later to become known as a man of letters. In this same town James Buchanan Eads was born, and though a worldfamed engineer, he wrote with great clearness. Farther down in Vevay, settled in 1796, there still lingers the benign influence of Julia Dumont and of the Egglestons. It was in Madison that the early poems of Sarah T. Bolton first saw print. Hanover, that beautiful point overlooking the river at Madison, is hallowed by the name of John Finley Crowe. At New Albany, still farther down the river, the halo of Forsythe Wilson, who lived and wrote the "Old Sergeant," and of William Vaughn Moody still rest over the place, while Emma Carlton is there now to keep watch over the ancient glory. Corydon, not far back from the river, will always be dear to the Hoosier heart as the place where Indiana was mad...
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