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Excerpt from Report of Committee: Charged With Placing the Memorial to Mark the Birthplace of George Bancroft, America's Foremost Historian
Before Bancroft's departure from Berlin he was over whelmed with honors. The Royal Academy gave him a farewell dinner, and the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg and Munich united in a parting tribute signed by four score and ten professors. The document says: Your name is the intellectual possession of every one among us. You have contributed to the most complete understanding of the problems set for a free people in that, as one of the fore most historians, you have portrayed those immortal deeds which led to the rise of a great free state beyond the sea and which will find in every age a response in the hearts of free minded men. We feel a just pride that you may be remem bered among those who most thoroughly appreciate Ger man science. We can recall with satisfaction your name to prove that as the representative of the United States, you combined the spirit of true scientific procedure with the in sight of a statesman.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
