Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Letters, Journals and Memories of E. Huntington Blatchford, 1920
There is a courage born of combativeness. It characterizes the man who rejoices in a fight; like Job's horse, he saith among the trumpets Ha, Ha! And he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting. But there is another kind of courage, - that of one who hates war, but hates wrong more than he hates war; who dares to receive wounds, and, what to him is more difficult, dares to give wounds if it be in obedience to the call of duty. That is what I mean by a chivalrous courage. This was the kind of courage that sent Huntington Blatchford to the Philippines, when his country called its young men to the colors to defend a neighbor, Oppressed by a sixteenth century government which had survived in the nineteenth century. When Eliphalet Huntington Blatchford's new name was written in his forehead I wonder if it was not Greatheart.
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