The Great Peace-Maker

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Excerpt from The Great Peace-Maker: A Sub-Marine DialogueTo give a human semblance and a human cry to such and such fictitious or historical men and women, brought to play their parts before us in artistic literature, is no very rare faculty, but one common to the dramatist, the novelist, the writer of monologues or idylls, of romances or ballads but to give a human cry and a human vivi semblance to the Ocean's intangible vastness on the one hand, to the Electric Telegraph's essential materiality on the other, is a feat only to be attempted by that impetuous audacity which is a striking characteristic of much of Mr. Home's work, - as it is of all great work. Audacity coupled with feebleness or any small measure of strength can only result in the ludicrous, but the audacity of genius, coupled as it is with might, leads to sublime issues, and it is precisely the audacity of this little poem of Mr. Home's, supported by the same strength that carried him through works of a superior magnitude, which renders The Great peace-maker a thing unique in our literature.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.