Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great
Elbert Hubbard
Memorial Edition
Printed and made into a Book by The Roycrofters,who are in East Aurora, Erie County, New York
New York
1916
Contents
PUBLISHER'S PREFACE
ELBERT HUBBARD
Elbert Hubbard is dead, or should we say, has gone on his last LittleJourney to the Great Beyond. But the children of his fertile brain stilllive and will continue to live and keep fresh the memory of theirillustrious forebear.
Fourteen years were consumed in the preparation of the work that rankstoday as Elbert Hubbard's masterpiece. In Eighteen Hundred Ninety-four,the series of Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great was begun, andonce a month for fourteen years, without a break, one of these littlepilgrimages was given to the world. These little gems have been acceptedas classics and will live. In all there are one hundred eighty LittleJourneys that take us to the homes of the men and women who transformedthe thought of their time, changed the course of empire, and marked thedestiny of civilization. Through him, the ideas, the deeds, theachievements of these immortals have been given to the living present andwill be sent echoing down the centuries.
Hubbard's Little Journeys to the homes of these men and women have notbeen equaled since Plutarch wrote his forty-six parallel lives of theGreeks and Romans. And these were given to the world before the firstrosy dawn of modern civilization had risen to the horizon. Withoutdwelling upon their achievements, Plutarch, with a trifling incident, asimple word or an innocent jest, showed the virtues and failings of hissubject. As a result, no other books from classical literature have comedown through the ages to us with so great an influence upon the lives ofthe leading men of the world. Who can r