And the sailor was waving his hat and shouting, "Land
Ho!"
Thus it was that Cristofer Colombo became the discoverer of the
land of his imagining, and as he stood on the deck Colombo mused.
"Now this is a sorrowful jest and a very unfair jest that is
happening," said he. "For I who have dreamed a beautiful dream
of the land of my imagining will quite probably henceforth be
known only as the discoverer of what will turn out to be merely
one more hideous and stupid country." And tears came to the eyes
of Colombo, for on the waves behind him floated the torn and
scattered pages of the poem which sang the imagined vision of
Beauty of him whom men long and long ago called the
Dreamer.
Thus it was in the old days.
ANALYSIS AND SUMMARY OF THE FOREGOING ARTICLE In the Manner of
Dr. Frank Crane
There is a lesson for us all in this beautiful story of how
Columbus realized his ambition to be a great discoverer.
Men called Columbus a Dreamer--but that is just what folks once
said about Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford.
The world has a place for Dreamers--if they are Practical
Dreamers.
Columbus was ambitious. Ambition is a great thing if it is
unselfish ambition. By unselfish I mean for the greatest good of
the greatest number. Shakespeare, the great teacher, shows us in
"Macbeth" what happens to the selfishly ambitious man.
Pages:
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40