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    Heroes in Peace The 6th William Penn Lecture, May 9, 1920
    Heroes in Peace The 6th William Penn Lecture, May 9, 1920
    Heroes in Peace The 6th William Penn Lecture, May 9, 1920
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    Heroes in Peace The 6th William Penn Lecture, May 9, 1920

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      Heroes in Peace The 6th William Penn Lecture, May 9, 1920 - John Haynes Holmes

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      Title: Heroes in Peace

      The 6th William Penn Lecture, May 9, 1920

      Author: John Haynes Holmes

      Release Date: December 29, 2007 [eBook #24069]

      Language: English

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      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HEROES IN PEACE***

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      The William Penn Lectures

      HEROES

      IN

      PEACE

      1920

      WALTER H. JENKINS, PRINTER

      PHILADELPHIA

      This is the sixth of the series of lectures known as the WILLIAM PENN LECTURES. They are supported by the Young Friends' Movement of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, which was organized on Fifth month 13th, 1916, at Race Street Meeting House in Philadelphia, for the purpose of closer fellowship, for the strengthening of such association and the interchange of experience, of loyalty to the ideals of the Society of Friends, and for the preparation by such common ideals for more effective work through the Society of Friends for the growth of the Kingdom of God on earth.

      The name of William Penn has been chosen because he was a Great Adventurer, who in fellowship with his friends started in his youth on the holy experiment of endeavoring to live out the laws of Christ in every thought and word and deed, that these might become the laws and habits of the State.

      John Haynes Holmes, of the Community Church, New York City, delivered this sixth lecture on Heroes in Peace, at Race Street Meeting House, on Fifth month 9th, 1920.

      Philadelphia, 1920.

      Heroes in Peace

      In an essay published some years ago on Thomas Carlyle's famous book, Heroes and Hero Worship, Prof. MacMechan, a well-known student of literature in England, makes the following observation: In 1840, 'hero' meant, most probably, to nine Englishmen out of every ten, a general officer who had served in the Peninsula, or taken part in the last great fight with Napoleon, and who dined year after year with the Duke at Apsley House on the anniversary of Waterloo. To most people 'hero' means simply 'soldier,' and implies a human soul greatly daring and greatly enduring.

      What Prof. MacMechan here tells us about the Englishman of 1840 is equally true of the Englishman of today—is true, indeed, of all peoples in all ages of history. Heroism has nearly always been taken to imply physical courage; physical courage has always found its most terrible and dramatic expression in warfare; and, therefore, by a natural association of ideas, the hero has come to be identified with the soldier. When we think of heroes, we almost instinctively find ourselves thinking of armored champions of Greece and Rome, who were helped to immortality by Plutarch, whom Emerson calls the doctor and historian of heroism; of King Arthur, and his knights of the Round Table; of Harold and his men of iron on the field of Hastings; of the Crusaders, who marched to the East with the sword in the

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