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with annotations, and wrote the article on Political Economy in the 

 Encyclopaulia Americana. 



The latter years of .Judge Phillips's life were passed at his home in 

 Cambridge in the enjoyment of books, — so long as he could employ 

 his eyes and mind upon them, — of attached and devoted kindred and 

 friends, and of the tranquillity that is wont to attend the close of an active 

 and honorable career. Gentle, kind, serene, happy, he sank by slow 

 decline, with no symptoms of acute disease, and died on the 9th of Sep- 

 tember, 1873 ; leaving the record of a pure and upright life, and a name 

 held no less in loving memory than in enduring reverence and honor. 



Charles Sumner was born in Boston, 6 January, 1811. He re- 

 ceived his education at the Latin School of that city and at Plarvard 

 College, where he took his first degree in 1830. Animated by a great 

 ardor for knowledge and indefatigable industry in acquisition, he 

 entered at once ujjon the study of the law, under the auspices of 

 the eminent judge, Joseph Story, who was just then laying the solid 

 foundation for that department of education connected with the Uni- 

 versity, which has maintained its x-eputation ever since. That distin- 

 guished man was not slow to detect the brilliant qualities of the new 

 scholar, and under his guidance Mr. Sumner enjoyed a privilege of 

 entering upon the practice of the profession which is not given to 

 many young men. That he did not pi'osecute his work was doubtless 

 owing to the fact that he soon discovered himself to be better fitted for 

 another sphere of action. A visit to Great Britain and France, where 

 under the warm recommendations of his master he was enabled to see 

 much of the most refined society of these countries, probably contrib- 

 uted to turn his mind in a different direction. However this may be, 

 the fact is indisputable that, after his return, his professional ardor 

 became relaxed, and before long was extinguished altogether. 



Neither could this change have caused surprise to any one well 

 acquainted with the character of the man. His mind possessed un- 

 questionable power ; but it was not of that kind which patiently exerts 

 itself in the acute definition of logical distinctions, or in the colder meas- 

 urement of balancing probabilities of truth. He had nothing of the 

 temperament which reduces every effort of reason or evidence of fact 

 to precisely its just value, and no more, — a temperament most neces- 

 sary to high reputation as a lawyer or a judge. Mr. Sumner could not 

 have gone very far in this path without discovering that this was not 

 the spliere in which he could best develop his most brilliant accom- 

 plishments. An incident soon occurred which determined the question 



