Excerpt from The Coraddi, Vol. 31: March, 1927 And there is always the expected sequence. True to form is an expression with which we apprehend a type. An old Southern darkey, leaning aver a worn fence and gazing at a hog sucking up the swill with greedy, satisfied grunts, remarked: You sho' is named right! Upon the same principle man is man; and from the very beginning there has been a deil o' a lot 0' human nature abraid in the world. It is the human nature which forms the liaison, and makes the present touch elbows with antiquity. When we admire the cleverness of some remarkable performance in politics, and later discover that the trick has been pulled off three thousand years ago, paradoxically we are amazed at the antiquity of the instant situation, and equally astounded at the modernness of the same thing in its ancient setting. All this is by way of saying that possibly Pericles would not have been wholly lost in the mazes of New York politics in the '80's and '90's, and that Thomas C. Platt of New York might have been no mean adversary of Cimon of Athens. At any rate these two notables had some traits in common, some methods as nearly alike as the restrictions of separate environment would permit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.