Best Persons in History

Most of the people who appear most ofter and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers. Whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the length of the year, or manured a field: but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so much so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the worked you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are those that have beaten in the battle the greatest number of other countries and rules over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are, but they are not the most civilized. Animals fight : so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized.


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