writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois
, he met early success as a traveling salesman with the Larkin soap company
. Today Hubbard is mostly known as the founder of the Roycroft
artisan community in East Aurora, New York
, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement
. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short story A Message to Garcia
. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard
, died aboard the RMS Lusitania
, which was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.
Hubbard was born in Bloomington
, Illinois
, to Silas Hubbard and Juliana Frances Read on June 19, 1856.
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.
It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity — of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing — "Carry a message to Garcia!"
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?