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sense of the calamity which had befallen a sister nation; 

 but what appealed to me most were the draped and half- 

 masted flags on the towers of the little country churches 

 and cottages. Never before in the history of any two 

 countries had such evidences of brotherly feeling been 

 shown. Thank God! brotherly feeling had conquered 

 demagogism. 



The visit to Mr. Carnegie helped to give a new current 

 to my thoughts. The attractions of his wonderful domain, 

 forty thousand acres, with every variety of scenery, 

 ocean, forest, moor, and mountain, the household with its 

 quaint Scotch usages the piper in full tartan solemnly 

 going his rounds at dawn, and the music of the organ 

 swelling, morning and evening, through the castle from 

 the great hall all helped to give me new strength. There 

 was also good company: Frederic Harrison, thoughtful 

 and brilliant, whom I had before known only by his books 

 and a brief correspondence ; Archdeacon Sinclair of Lon 

 don, worthy, by his scholarly accomplishments, of his 

 descent from the friend of Washington; and others who 

 did much to aid our hosts in making life at the castle 

 beautiful. Going thence to America, I found time to co 

 operate with my old friend, President Gilman, in securing 

 data for Mr. Carnegie, especially at Washington, in view 

 of his plan of a national institution for the higher scientific 

 research. 



It was a sad home-coming; but these occupations and 

 especially a visit to New Haven at the bicentennial cele 

 bration of Yale aided to cheer me. This last was indeed 

 a noteworthy commemoration. There had come to me, in 

 connection with it, perhaps the greatest honor of my life : 

 an invitation to deliver one of the main addresses ; but it 

 had been received at the time of my deepest depression, 

 and I had declined it, but with no less gratitude that the au 

 thorities of my Alma Mater had thought me worthy of 

 that service. In so doing, I sacrificed much; for there 

 was one subject which, under other circumstances, I would 

 gladly have developed at such a time and before such an 



