Excerpt from An Address on the Spirit of the Teacher at General Teachers' Meeting, Saturday, March 11, 1893 Let me illustrate. In the winter Of 1892, a train, for same trivial reason, came to an unusual stop near the village of Hastings on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, at perhaps the most beautiful and historic part of the Hudson River valley. The unusual stoppage of the train created the occasion for the exercise Of unusual care. The rules of the company were explicit. It became the imme: diate duty of the trainman who had charge of the rear platform to take his lantern and go back and warn any approaching train. Mere stick that he proved himself to be, if he had only followed his orders all would have been well. It was dark, but not stormy. There was no excuse. If he had possessed any of the spirit which the public has the right to expect in a trainman, he would have met the occasion and protected his train, orders or no orders. He had no spirit he disobeyed his orders the through express crashed into the rear of the standing train, a score of people were killed and as many more maimed and mangled for life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.