HOME LIFE AND EARLY TRAINING 19 



sistence in daily tasks. Not only did you have the 

 qualities of perseverance which make useful lives, 

 but you have also the admiration for great men and 

 great things. To look upward, to learn more and 

 more, to seek always to rise, — these are the things 

 which you taught me. I see you now, after your 

 day of labor, reading in the evening some account 

 of a battle from one of those books which recalled 

 to you the glorious epoch of which you were the 

 witness. In teaching me to read, your care was to 

 teach me the greatness of France." 



