Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Our Country in War and Relations With All Nations: A History of War Times, and American Heroes on Land and Sea
ON the front of the palace at Versailles, is in golden letters the famous inscription, To All the Glories of France, and the splendor of the sentiment has pre served from the ruthless hands of revolution, and from defacement by enemies in temporary triumph, the marbles of the magnificent edifice and the proud letters of gold. The memories of nations have many forms of expression, and it is not those distinguished by pomp that seem to have been the most certainly preserved and to possess the greater assurance of perpetuity. In the mounds of the ancient cities on the Euphrates, in the hills of desolation that mark the sites of mighty capitals, are found cylinders of burnt clay on which are the records of the dynasties that have otherwise perished, of peoples among whose memorials no tower stands to tell the tale of the race, no arch abides to speak of the vanished ages or locate in the abyss beyond the era of history, the Empires that are lost. It is the cylinder of clay that has the quality of immortality. Still more in the printed leaves of our time Will be found the pages that minister to the pride of people, and on Which are inscribed the lessons of the rise and fall of nations that Shall enshrine the lives of great men and apply the excellence of good deeds.
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