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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN" PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. XVI. 1876. No. 97. 



.4 Discou7'se, illustrative of the life and character of Horace Binney. 

 delivered before the Bar of Philadelphia, the Law Association, 

 and the American Philosophical Society, in the Musi- 

 cal Fund Hall, on the evening of Jan. 5, 1876. 



By Judge William Strong. 



Forty years ago, in this Hall, on an occasion much 

 like the present, Mr. Binney commenced his eulogy 

 of Chief Justice Marshall with the following remark, 

 " The Providence of God is shown most beneficently 

 to the world, in raising up, from time to time, and in 

 crowning with length of days, men of pre-eminent good- 

 ness and wisdom.'' The thought thus expressed is 

 worthy of recall to-day. At intervals, all along the line 

 of human history, and especially in enlightened com- 

 munities, men have appeared, who, by their native en- 

 dowments, their thorough culture, their ceaseless en- 

 ergy, and their moral worth, have raised themselves to 

 a plane above that of their fellows ; men who have been 

 in advance of all their cotemporarles, and to whom the 

 rank of leaders has been universally conceded. Such 



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