José Martí, a genius born of the people- New York Times article

[Rigo Muniz]

"On January 28, 1899, The New York Times publishes an advertisement
of The New Voice, (Vol XVI, no. 4), that “contains among many
interesting features, with illustrations, the article “José Martí, the
Master” [a photo of Martí is included] “the life story of the
wonderful Cuban patriot teacher, Statement, Leader and Soldier”. In
fact, George Reno’s article is the first one written on the US
eulogizing Martí. The article is largely biographical in nature and it
gives surprising details about Martí’s character and habits. The
introduction of the essay itself could give an idea of how reverential
it was. George Reno writes:

Occasionally, perhaps once in a century, unheralded and
unannounced, there comes from some unexpected quarter of the horizon
an intellectual meteor which illumines the world for a brief period,
and then sinks back into the great unknowable. Such was José Martí, a
genius born of the people, to whom all who came within the radius of
his influence willingly doffed the cap and bowed in reverence. (311)"

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