It is gratifying to Americans
to recognize in Mark Twain the incarnation of democratic America. It is
gratifying to citizens of all nationalities to recall and recapture the
pleasure and delight his works have given them for decades. It is more
gratifying still to rest confident in the belief that, in Mark Twain,
America has contributed to the world a genius sealed of the tribe of
Moliere, a congener of Le Sage, of Fielding, of Defoe--a man who will be
remembered, as Mr. Howells has said, "with the great humorists of all
time, with Cervantes, with Swift, or with any others worthy his company;
none of them was his equal in humanity."
V. PHILOSOPHER, MORALIST, SOCIOLOGIST
"Diligently train your ideals upward and still upward
towards a summit where you will find your chiefest
pleasure in conduct which, while contenting you, will
be sure to confer benefits upon your neighbour and the
community.
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