We can't all do great things.

And yet--an awful lot of people had to live so that Washington could be born when he was....
"His parents: that was two.

And his grand-parents: he must have had four.
And his great grand-parents: eight of them....
"Why, it's like the problem of the horse-shoe nails," she continued in growing excitement.

"In twenty-eight generations there must have been millions and millions of people who lived--just so George Washington could be born one day at Mt.

Vernon--and grow up to make America free! Yes, and every one of them was just as necessary as Washington himself, because if it hadn't been for every single one of them--we would never have had him!" For a moment she seemed to be in touch with the infinite plan.