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mighty dead did for the nation, what the dead did 

 for us who are now living. Let us in return try to 

 shape our deeds so that the America of the future 

 shall justify by her career the lives of the great men 

 of her past. Every man who does his duty as a sol 

 dier, as a statesman, or as a private citizen is paying 

 to Grant's memory the kind of homage that is best 

 worth paying. We have difficulties and dangers 

 enough in the present, and it is the way we face them 

 which it to determine whether or not we are fit de 

 scendants of the men of the mighty past. We must 

 not flinch from our duties abroad merely because we 

 have even more important duties at home. That 

 these home duties are the most important of all every 

 thinking man will freely acknowledge. We must 

 do our duty to ourselves and our brethren in the 

 complex social life of the time. We must possess 

 the spirit of broad humanity, deep charity, and lov 

 ing-kindness for our fellowmen, and must remem 

 ber, at the same time, that this spirit is really the ab 

 solute antithesis of mere sentimentalism, of soup- 

 kitchen, pauperizing philanthropy, and of legislation 

 which is inspired either by foolish mock benevolence 

 or by class greed or class hate. We need to be pos 

 sessed of the spirit of justice and of the spirit which 

 recognizes in work and not ease the proper end of 

 effort. 



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