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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 29: end of life-work (search)
ion of the public mind to the righteous settlement of the great questions which agitated the country for the half-century which closed his life. While he was certainly first in every political conflict, and brought to bear the extraordinary resources of his mind and pen, there were many who were glad to fly to his assistance when once he had sounded the charge. He neither carried on the fight alone, nor wasted time in gathering the spoils of battle. Like the great victor on the strand of Salamis, to his attendants he might well have exclaimed, Ye may take these things; Ye are not Themistocles. It was sufficient for him to know that the field was won, and that the Sun had been a leader not unworthy of the cause. That he was a very great editor, if not the greatest the country had produced, will be admitted generally. That he overtopped and overlooked all professional contemporaries of his later years no one will question. He stood alone in the last decade of the century. He had