by Gamaliel Bradford
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by Gamaliel Bradford
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This is a very unique old book about some of our “infamous” founding fathers. The book was originally published in 1923 and this is a copy of the eighth impression which was published in 1928 by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston & New York, and the Riverside Press, Cambridge. The book measures 5 ¾ inches by 8 3/8 inches and contains xii, 276 pages. The brown cloth cover is lightly soiled. The title is in silver on the front and down the spine (a bit “rubbed”). The cover shows minor signs of wear. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The signature of a previous owner is inscribed on the inside front cover. The pages show no signs of rips or foxing. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this old book is near very good.
Contents:
Excerpt- Damaged Souls:
It is interesting to trace in these different figures collectively the influence of some of the most marked elements that usually account for spiritual damage. To begin with, there is ambition, the sin by which the angels fell. I do not know that one of our group can be said to have had sufficient largeness of intellect, sufficient intensity of concentrated imaginative power, to have held to one vast goal of success from beginning to end. Brown, with his personal ambition intimately identified with the will of God, perhaps suggests it most. The others were all opportunists, restlessly, eagerly anxious to do great things and win a great place in the world, but leaving the how mainly to the whim of circumstance. Of course they all disclaimed ambition, as we all do, and they were all more or less distracted from it by other considerations, Arnold by passion, Burr by pleasure, Randolph by temper, Barnum and Butler by money. But with every one of them the love of glory was an essential and controlling motive and most of them made it manifest in an idle and misplaced vanity.
Money, again, what a mighty element of spiritual damage it always is. I have already alluded to it with Barnum and Butler, and certainly their names were sufficiently disfigured by it, if not their lives. Paine and Brown I think we may exempt mainly, if not wholly, from the money taint. But avarice discredited the latter days of Randolph, utter financial mismanagement, with its sure train of ruin to others, haunted the whole career of Burr, and it is unnecessary to suggest what money did to Benedict Arnold.
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