Excerpt from The Doric Pillar of Michigan: A Memorial Address, Commemorative of the Hon. Zachariah Chandler, United States Senator, Delivered in the Fort Street Presbyterian Church, Detroit, Michigan, Thursday Morning, November 27, 1879

There has been no age without its giants, not, per haps, in the narrow sense of great physical stature, but in the broader sense of mental might, capacity to com mand and control. Such men are but few, in the most favored times, and it takes but few to give shape to human history and destiny. Their words shake the world, their deeds move and mould humanity, and, as Carlyle has suggested, history is but their lengthened shadows, the indefinite prolong ing of their in¿uence even after they are dead.

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