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Title: Some successful Americans
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Sherman
Subjects: Presidents Statesmen Inventors Philanthropists
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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fondof study, ambitious to be of use in the world, and of greatpromise. Mr. Stanford established the university at PaloAlto in his sons memory and named it for him. Many friends had urged the Stanfords to give theirmoney for some other purpose than that of education, say-ing that too much education would unfit people for labor ;but Mr. Stanford thought differently, and at the openingof the university, speaking for himself and his wife, becauseshe had been his active co-worker, said : We do not believe there can be any superfluous education. As aman cannot have too much Kealth and intelligence, so he cannot be 128 SOME SUCCESSFUL AMERICANS too highly educated. Whether in the discharge of responsible orhumble duties, he will ever find the knowledge he has acquiredthrough education not only of practical assistance to him but afactor in his personal happiness and a joy forever. Mr. Stanfords kindly spirit was shown in the Senate onthe occasion of the nomination of Mr. Lamar for associate
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University Church, Leland Stanford University justice of the Supreme Court. The nomination wasopposed by many because Mr. Lamar had taken an activepart against the United States during the Civil War. Mr,Stanford said : No man sympathized more sincerely than myself with the cause ofthe Union, or deprecated more the cause of the South. I would havegiven fortune and life to have defeated that cause. But the war hasterminated, and what this country needs now is absolute and profoundpeace. Lamar was a representative Southern man and adhered to LELAND STANFORD 129 the convictions of his boyhood and manhood. There can never bepacification in this country until these war memories are obliteratedby the action of the executive and of Congress. Mr. Stanford was by turns farmer boy, lawyer, railroadbuilder, governor, and United States senator, but it isbecause of his generous gifts that he is best known andwill be longest and most kindly remembered. And thegreatest gift of all, one that will neve

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