rand-boy, resolved that he would one day unbury Troy. His bold purpose and the wide renown which it afterwards brought him were born of his boyish dreams. He would never have found Troy, he tells us, had it not been for the inspiration he caught while reading Homer. Robert Fulton, a young miniaturepainter of seventeen, conceived the bold fancy that a ship might be propelled through the water by steam. Still practising his art as a livelihood he went to London to study mechanics and to Paris to test his inventions. He endured untold hardship and ridicule, and at length, after more than twenty years of study and experiment, he was triumphantly carried on his little Clermont" from New York to Albany. The youth who is strong enough to drive out all unworthy aims, who will make room for no ideals but those that are high and pure, is training himself towards a noble manhood and enduring Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!" |