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accrued therefrom, and that dying he devoted them to a 
purpose which would promote the knowledge, the well- 
being and the pleasure of those who were to come after 
him. 
It is Ruskin, I believe, who declares that the first of all 
English games is making money. He announces that it is 
an all-absorbing game, that we knock each other down 
oftener in playing it than at football, that it is absolutely 
without purpose, and that no one who engages heartily in 
the game ever knows why. The game is not played to get 
money to do anything with. But the player gets it only 
that he may get. And if you ask him, ‘* What will you 
make of what you have got?”’ he answers, ** Well, I'll get 
more.” 
Now we all know that money-making is a game that is 
very much played in the United States. England has not 
a monopoly of it by any means, and while we have not 
played at the game as long as they have on the other side, 
we have been in some respects more successful at it, and 
have made our country the richest nation of the world. I 
note, however, this difference between the game as played 
in England and America. More of our players have 
seemed to know why they were in the game, and what 
they wanted the money for. More have played that they 
might get the money to do something with and fewer that 
they might simply get more. The result has been that our 
country has produced more splendid philanthropists than 
any other in the world, and our generation has in this respect 
excelled any of the generations that have preceded it. It 
will have to be confessed, I fear, that some of our munifi- 
cent givers have not always been particular as to the man- 
ner in which they reached the goal, and that they have 
sometimes won by as foul “ slugging ’’ as ever disgraced a 
game of football. It is, however, to be said to the honor of 
Henry Shaw that he made his money in a legitimate manner 
and devoted it all to a noble purpose. And weare able here 
to-night to commend what he did as an example to the youth. 
