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this text (help | file info or download)  When one is travelling
in the foothills of a mountain range, it is difficult to
appreciate the heights and grandeur of the peaks. It is only at
a distance that we are able to judge clearly relative heights,
and pick out the main peaks of the range. So it is with great
men, their lives and work. We may appreciate in a way their
greatness while living, but the true measure of it comes to us
only with time.  Theodore Roosevelt was the most dominating and
inspiring figure in American life since Abraham Lincoln.
Dominating and inspiring because he stood for the square deal,
because he simply was as broad as the world, limited neither by
race nor creed. We appreciated his strength while he lived, but
as time goes by, he looms up greater and greater, and now we
know him to be one of America's greatest Presidents.  In time of
peace, Roosevelt was a devo