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a maan. When introduced to Mr. Bright I was de. 

 lighted to find that he had not forgotten DunfermHne, 

 nor the acquaintances he had made there. 



A grand character, that of the sturdy Quaker ; once 

 the best hated man in Britain, but one to whom both 

 continents are now glad to confess their gratitude. He 

 has been wiser than his generation, but has lived to see 

 it grow up to him. Certainly no American can look 

 down from the gallery upon that white head with- 

 out beseeching heaven to shower its choicest bless- 

 ings upon it. He spoke calmly upon the Permissive 

 Liquor Bill, and gave the ministerial statement in re- 

 gard to it. All he said was good common sense ; we 

 could do something by regulating the traffic and con- 

 fining it to reasonable hours, but after all the great cure 

 must come from the better (Education of the masses, 

 who must be brought to feel that it is unworthy of 

 their manhood to brutalize themselves with liquor. 

 England has set herself at last to the most important of 

 all work — the thorough education of her people ; and 

 we may confidently expect to see a great improvement 

 in their habits in the next generation. My plan for 

 mastering the monster evil of intemperance is that our 

 temperance societies, instead of pledging men never to 

 taste alcoholic beverages, should be really temperance 

 agencies and require their members to use them only at 

 meals — never to drink wines or spirits without eating. 

 The man who takes one glass of wine, or beer, or spirits 



