THE POWER OF THE PEN.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVX, Issue 3129, 15 May 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE POWER OF THE PEN.

For all so great as Queen Victoria is, and for all so splendid as is her kingdom, did there happen to fall in her realm one little implement called a pen, the glory and the greatness would be dim to future ages, and our grandsons who come after us would but guess faintly at' our strength and power, and of our familiar features, and our human ways, and’how we succeeded to our fathers, as they to ns, would know nothing. The character of the great; the meaning of the humble, the vesture and costume of humanity and all its records of the heart depend absolutely upon that little implement. In the past ages the man who stands np like a mountain* or shines like a light across the plains of oblivion, is the man who has a history worthy of him. The annalists, the minstrels. 1 the storytellers, are to the past what the SoVereigh is to the present, thb fountain of honour Without these , there ‘is no ineinorial Without their successors in ihe modern world, there would, beyond the limit of a generation and often not even in that, bo little mental appreciation and no fame.— Blackwood.