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Excerpt from The Liberator Simon Bolivar in New York: Addresses Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Statue of the Liberator Simon Bolivar Presented to the City of New York by the Government of Venezuela, Tuesday, April 19, 1921
The estimate of history, which, in respect of the mem ory of Bolivar, began the day he fell asleep, in the early eventide of his life and in the passing eclipse of his work, on that sad afternoon at Santa Marta, has reached the hour of supreme justice. This bronze is the Witness, and this is the place that he would have selected, for this sum mons before posterity. The people that has achieved the greatest things of the present recognizes the definitive place in glory of the man that accomplished the greatest things of the past; and his statue, and that other statue which, at, the entrance to the harbor of New York, waves its torch as an eternal aurora over this land of freemen, are, as it were, twin symbols of the American world's ideal.
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