The Days of a Man ^1905 



war, however painful, is necessary and will be salu- 

 tary, a traditional notion hardly to be eradicated 

 from his closed mind. Concluding, I asserted that the 

 success of democratic institutions in America is the 

 greatest single asset of the peace movement, for our 

 colossal nation has developed along lines of popular 

 government and federation. 

 Sleepless The sccond article had to do with international 

 waicUogs rivalries. In it I pictured the military watchdogs of 

 each nation as baying at the moon and at each other. 

 Unfortunately, however, my claim that the bark of 

 all was worse than their bite, and their upkeep more 

 costly than either, proved but half true ! 

 Passing of The third essay treated of the Mexican Revolution 

 and the fate of Don Luis Terrazas, the greatest 

 landholder in Mexico, the downfall of the cientificos, 

 and the reasons why the United States should not 

 interfere by force of arms — matters later discussed 

 in their proper place. ^ 



For Holt I edited ^ (1910) a volume entitled "Lead- 

 ing American Men of Science." This consists of 

 seventeen short biographies by competent persons of 

 men no longer living: 



Don Luis 



to Brooks 



From Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford), Alexander Wilson, 



Franklin John James Audubon, Benjamin Silliman, Joseph Henry, Louis 

 Agassiz, Jeffries Wyman, Asa Gray, James Dwight Dana, 

 Spencer Fullerton Baird, Othniel Charles Marsh, Edward 

 Drinker Cope, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Simon Newcomb, George 

 Brown Goode, Henry Augustus Rowland, and William Keith 

 Brooks.' 



'See Chapter Lii, pages 690-703. 



=> With the able help of Dr. Edwin E. Slosson, formerly professor of Chemis- 

 try, then on the editorial staff of The Independent. 



3 A life of Benjamin Franklin having been printed in another volume of 

 Holt's " Biographies of Leading Americans," he was not included in this group. 



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