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Identifier: literarydigesthi10hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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, to the fact that in every man there isplanted some divine spark; in every man, even the most material,there is a touch of the mystic, to which some great spiritual cause,the meaning of which may be only dimly revealed, makes a powerfulappeal. Americans of learning and men illiterate, from great citiesand remote rural communities, even from isolated mountain homes,became in this war thrilled and uplifted at the thought of being 284 PERSONAL SKETCHES OF WAR LEADERS crusaders to carry the banner of freedom three thousand miles acrossgreat waters. Across those waters there flowed in 1917 and 1918 not only the2,000,000 troops that were to complete the final undoing of Germany,but an invisible force of bright and great thoughts spreading andgathering force until they engulfed the continent. In places andlands where democracy had had no meaning, men asked what thatforce was which had induced a great nation to take up arms; whatthat new religion which had so inspired Americans to gTeat sac-
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THE BIRTHPLACE OF PRESIDENT WILSONS MOTHER, IN CARLISLE, ENGLAND * rifice and complete devotion. Once that spiritual force was unloosed,the example became infectious.®^ It was in 1807 that a County Down Scotch-Irish youth namedJames Wilson landed in Philadelphia, got work there as a printer,that old craft of adventurers and wanderers, with small purses stuffedwith hope—the craft of Horace Greeley and Ben Franklin. Hemarried an Ulster girl, who had come over in the same emigrantship, thrived as a printer and become an editor in Pittsburgh, whencehis son, after learning the same trade, went to college and became aPresbyterian minister, after the fashion of many Ulsterites, and in1855 Avas pastor of a church in Staunton, Virginia, where, sixty-twoyears before the day on which that son was staying at BuckinghamPalace with the King of England, that son was born, one who, bywhatever gifts of will, of genius, of destiny, of energy, of industry,of ambition, of fortunes smiles, had become,

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