Great Men as Prophets
of a New Era


By Newell Dwight Hillis

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Great Men as Prophets
of a New Era

 

By
NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS

 

Author of "The Investment of Influence,"
"A Man's Value to Society," "Great
Books as Life Teachers"

 

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Foreword

Great institutions are the shadows thatgreat men cast across the centuries. Agreat law, a great liberty, a great art or toolor reform represents a great soul, organized,and made unconsciously immortal for all time.Explorers trace the Nile or Amazon back tothe lake in which the river takes its rise. Historianstrace institutions back to some herofrom whose mind and heart the life-givingmovement pours forth. When the scholartravels back to the far-off beginnings of jurisprudence,he comes to some Moses, toiling inThebes, to some Solon in Athens, to some Justinianin Rome. Not otherwise the renaissanceof painting, sculpture, and architecturebegins with some Giotto, some Michael Angelo,some Christopher Wren. Scholars often speakof history as narratory or philosophical, butin the last analysis, history is biographical.These studies were prepared for the studentsof Plymouth Institute in the belief that biographyis life's wisest teacher, and that thelives of great men are the most inspiring booksto be found in our libraries.

N. D. H.
Plymouth Institute,
    Brooklyn, N. Y.

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Contents

I.Dante, and the Dawn After the Dark Ages
      (1265–1321)
9
II.Savonarola, and the Renaissance of Conscience
   
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