Of Alexander Crummell

Du Bois describes the struggle and the difficult hardship with consise words:

"This was the temptation of Despair; and the young man fought it doggedly. Like some grave shadow he flitted by those halls, pleading, arguing, half angrily demanding admittance, until there came the final No; until men hustled the disturber away, marked him as foolish, unreasonable, and injudicious, a vain rebel against God's law."

W.E.B. Du Bois poetically expressed the potential to achieveing the knowledge needed - to reach any goals that the less fortunate could ever dream of reaching. Du Bois presents his essay in a way that continues to influence and move future generations of the past trials but the possible opportunies of days to come. Du Bois concludes with a passionate and thought-provoking statement for readers:

"I wonder where he is to-day? I wonder if in that dim world beyond, as he came gliding in, there rose on some wan throne a King,-a dark and pierced Jew, who knows the writhings of the earthly damned, saying, as he laid those heart-wrung talents down, "Well done!" while round about the morning stars sat singing."

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To View The Complete Essay Please Click The Below Link: http://www.bartleby.com/114/12.html

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Look for the next Du Bois essay, "Of the Coming of John, on July 27, 2004. Happy Reading!

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