Excerpt from Wonderful Deeds and Adventures: A Collection of Stirring Scenes and Moving Accidents All the world loves a lover, Says Emerson, which is true enough, and it is also true that all the world idolizes a hero. It is the heroic deed that wins the quickest recognition. The man who plunges into the sea to save a fellow-man, a fireman who dashes through the flames to the rescue of a human being, either one Of these is a hero, possessed of the same spirit that discovers continents or leads armies to victory. In the breast of every man, woman, or child that ever lived the love of the heroic burns. Every man may not be a hero himself, but he is a craven soul, indeed, if he does not admire the heroic quality in other men. Stories Of adventure by land or sea are the sort of reading to place in the hands of boys. True stories of adventure, of heroism - this is the intellectual food to give the young. Let them become saturated with such stories as the charge of the Light Brigade, for bravery; the adventures of Alexander Henry among the Indians, for long suffering Captain Webb's Channel swim, for courage the Hunt for a Murderer, for perseverance under difficulties. 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.