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was the comparatively narrow one of scholars who were able to 

 appreciate what he had done for them. But he has set before us 

 a splendid example of single-minded devotion to the enlargement of 

 knowledge, and has given us a great mass of first rate original work, 

 work which has stood and will stand the test of criticism. This work 

 of his, covering some of the most obscure and difficult branches of 

 research and throwing new light into many a dark corner of the 

 past, will perpetuate his name and win for it a gratitude of many 

 generations of historical scholars. 



The President : 



It is a great pleasure not to introduce, but to present to you 

 Dr. Horace Howard Furness, the speaker on behalf of the Library 

 Company of Philadelphia, one of the foremost of Shakespearean 

 scholars, the genial friend not only of Mr. Lea, but of our entire 

 community. 



Dr. Horace Howard Furness : 



Mr. President, Fellozu Members of the Philosophical Society, 

 Ladies and Gentlemen: Lincoln in his immortal Gettysburg address 

 taught us, I think, the spirit in which to observe commemorative 

 services. The deeds that men have done, the tasks they have 

 achieved — these endure, and our commemorations are for our own 

 benefit, not for the honor of those whose hands have ceased from 

 their labour. By rehearsing their victories, we are, ourselves, urged 

 forward, and in following their example our truest commemoration 

 is found. 



And who would not gladly be a humble follower of such a leader 

 as he whom we have met this evening to commemorate? From 

 mouths of wiser censure than mine you have listened to a review of 

 his manifold talents and activities. A man so various that he 

 seemed to be not one but all good men's epitome. Of Sir Walter 

 Scott, who for twenty-five years performed the arduous and varied 

 duties of Sheriff and Clerk of the Session, it has been said, that an 

 historian of Edinburgh could hardly escape the conviction that 

 during those years there must have been in that city and at the 

 same time, two utterly dissimilar men, both bearing the same name, 

 the one a poet and literary man of commanding genius and the 



