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Hill, however, to reflect that in the canonization of really great men the first appropriation of public moneys is for fagots, the quarrying of the marble usually being left to the third and fourth generations. Perspective is needed for the right estimate of extraordinary men, and it is supplied by time ; our mental mir- rors are fitted to reflect the ordinary sort of mortals others blur on them. We call Mr. Hill, freely, Jim Hill, as the Genoese, perhaps, referred collo- quially to Chris Colum...bus. Chris was at too close range for them quite to comprehend. Spain doubtless at that day was filled with bigger men than the Italian adventurer; yet history, forget- ting their names, writes his in full. How can the story of the Northwest ever be written without the story of Hill? When he put his road across the continent he stood on end the railroad egg of the North and showed men The Hill Lines how simple and easy it was, after all. Napoleon's first question was, What has he done? That question must always be answered in attempting fairly to place Mr.
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