Boreham on The Power of One Person: Back in the 1930s F. W. Boreham, the noted Australian editorialist had the insight to see that the fate of peoples had been decided not so much by the outcome of wars as by the influence of strategic personalities. Creasy might write of the world Decisive Battles, but FWB saw that in the working out of humanity’s destiny, battles were not nearly so decisive as babies. Compared with the power of a single personality, the greatest battles in history were of comparatively trifling importance.

He could point to Luther and the bent which he had given to all subsequent history; to Wesley diverting the stream of British destiny and saving England from similar to the French Revolution; to Carey elevating international understanding following the shoemaker’s voyage to India. He highlighted Tyndale and King James, Martin Luther King’s 1963 world shaking speech, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Cook searching the Oceans with a sextant in one hand and a Bible in the other; John Newton not only wrote “Amazing Grace,” but in 1786 commissioned Richard Johnson as Sydney’s first Parson-padre; and the 1088 UK Magna Carter, the US Constitution and the Australian Fedration of States all on agreement with the Bible.

Looking behind the individuals, he could place his finger upon what, in the case of hundreds of decisive men, had been the formative factor in their lives, some life-changing passages of Scripture and world history.

– T. Howard Crago, F. W. Boreham Biography, pp.171-172.