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names associated with it. Each inspires the same human interest 

 and is characterized by the same passionate devotion. 



The name of Galileo is to-day a vivid figure in history. We 

 look with pride coupled with reverence upon the old bronze lamp 

 as it swings suspended by the rope in the Duomo at Pisa. There 

 it hung centuries ago, when Galileo watched it. 



Copernicus turned over with stricken hand his book on the solar 

 system — the one he dared not publish before. This figure excites 

 sympathy and indignation. We see the genius of Michael Angelo 

 as it presides over the art and the architecture of Rome. Raphael 

 will forever stand beside the glowing canvas of the Sistine Madonna 

 as it burns itself into the soul of every beholder. Can we not in 

 our imagination see Scott standing within the deep shadows of 

 Melrose Abbey, or strolling in the woods about Abbott's Ford ? 

 How sweetly the chimes of Holy Trinity Church ring out over the 

 hills about Stratford on Avon. 



Iln the corner of the Hathaway cottage lingers the shade of Ann 

 Hathaway and William Shakespeare. Over three hundred years 

 the ashes of Shakespeare have reposed beneath the marble slab in 

 Holy Trinity, guarded by the famous couplet: 



"Blest be the man that spares these stones, 

 And curst be he that moves my bones," 



Through the ages these men live in history, so the work of the 

 teacher will live on through the ages until time shall be no more, 



for — 



"Since the universe began, 

 And till it shall be ended, 

 The soul of nature, soul of man, 

 And the soul of God are blended." 



