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Read through the most famous quotes from George Bancroft
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. ↗
In and around Worcester Massachusetts Bancroft's birthplace many streets businesses and monuments bear his name:
Bancroft School Worcester MA. While the young man delivered several sermons shortly after his return from Europe in 1822 which produced a favorable impression the love of literature proved the stronger attachment. As time passed and custom created familiarity his style personal and literary was seen to be the outward symbol of a firm resolve to preserve a philosophic calm and of an enormous underlying energy which spent itself in labor.
Among his best-known writings is the magisterial series History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent. S. George Bancroft (October 3 1800 – January 17 1891) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level.
