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progress, and by which the great men of the ages that are past 
being dead still speak to us with voice that it is our privilege to 
hear. These are the pleasurable pursuits that lie before you. 
This in olden days was called ‘‘the camp of the explorers;” let 
it be the camp of the explorers still; and let them take for their 
guides such as those who have come here to address us this after- 
noon, and to whom, without further preface, I shall now give 
place. 
