ons have learned to think
more seriously with regard thereto and to consider the value of the
deeds of the participants therein in a more sympathetic manner. This
work, however, has not been so very much enlarged; for it has only
eighteen pages more, but unlike the first edition it has an index.
Hoping, however, to give the subject of this sketch a larger place in
American history and to popularize the story of his career this
revised edition has been given to the public.

The work is not set forth as a scientific study. It is rather an
abridged account which may be read without much difficulty by the
average student in quest of concise opinion concerning one of the most
important American characters figuring in that great crisis between
1830 and 1860. On reading this work, one receives the impression that
the author has done his task very well. It borders somewhat on hero
worship, however, as is evident from the use of the following
language: "If one could see a mystical presentation of the epoch, one
would see Garrison as a Titan, turning a giant grindstone or
electrical power-wheel, from which radiated vibrations in larger and
in ever larger, more communicative circles and spheres of agitation,
till there was not a man, woman, or child in America who was not a
tremble." He says further: "We know, of course, that the source of
these radiations was not in Garrison. They came from the infinite and
passed out into the infinite. Had there been no Garrison they would
somehow have arrived and at some time would have prevailed. But
historically speaking they did actually pass through Garrison: he
vitalized and permanently changed this nation as much as one man ever
did the same for any nation in the history of the world."

The book gives a good background and then dramatically stages Garrison
as a striking figure. Next follows a dramatic presentation of the
antislavery struggle with pen pictures of the participants. The story
finally reaches the crisis when Garrison stood as a central figure.
The work contains a retrospect and a prospect, an excellent account of
the man in action, the Rynders Mob, Garrison and Emerson, and foreign
influence. The story closes with a summary and an impressive epilogue.
Although not a scientific treatise it certainly furnishes stimulus to
further study, and when a student thus interested has read it, he
will desire to study one of the larger biographies of this
distinguished man.

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