The same author bears testimony to the high character of Washington's military selections by quoting the complaint of certain young officers (who had failed to receive promotion as they expected because they were from the chief's native state) that "'it was a misfortune to be a Virginian."
It is in the adoption of such lofty standards, "proving his country's good his only end," that George Washington' occupies a plane far above so many of the world's famous military and political leaders.
Yes Washington was great and his was essentially a moral greatness. And so we may close with Byron again Where shall the wearied eye repose When gazing on the great? Where neither guilty glory glows Nor unrelenting hate?
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