James E. Homans, editor, The Cyclopædia of American Biography… (1918)
“ The youth who drives a team on the towpath may become President, and the newsboy in the train may turn out to be the greatest inventor of the age. One man passes into history, and another springs into prominence. ”
James E. Homans, editor, The Cyclopædia of American Biography… (1918)
“ But any book of reference is impaired by age — not because it becomes untrue, but because the world moves continually. The schoolboy of yesterday is the vigorous man of to-day, and may be the gray-haired sage of to-morrow. ”
James E. Homans, editor, The Cyclopædia of American Biography… (1918)
“ There comes a time when it seems as if art, literature, statesmanship and economic invention had arrived at their zenith, and there is nothing to do but close the record and bind up the work. Then pessimistic critics talk complacently about degeneracy and the “twilight of the gods.” But suddenly a new genius arises, and creates a new school; or there is a scientific or economic development that calls for new energies, and the new energies are forthcoming, and it seems as if a greater sun had risen upon the earth. ”
