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ity to conquer any other nation, — his fondness for the 

 study of American history, not merely at the academy, but 

 I may add, to the very close of his life, — the hearty em- 

 phatic support of President Cleveland's attitude on the 

 Venezuelan question, found its fitting culmination in the 

 noble words pronounced in this very chapel at the me- 

 morial service for Governor Greenhalge. They will bear 

 repeating, and I would that every young man listening to 

 me to-day would take them to his heart and grave them 

 there as with a pen of iron. Speaking of the higher duty, he 

 says: — 



"That duty is the one you owe to your country. By 

 your country I do not mean this small space, crossed and 

 recrossed by the beautiful and granite-capped hills which 

 so closely encircle us, but I speak of a country, a part of 

 whose wide domain is always in sunlight, extending west- 

 ward from the storm-washed rocks of the New England 

 shore to the farthest extremities of the Aleutian Isles — 

 from the present frozen shores of the great lakes to the ever 

 tropical climate of the Mexican gulf — a country with 

 seventy millions of people — a country of free speech and 

 free religion — a country covered with schools and churches 

 — a country to be proud of; a country to respect; and above 

 all, if need be, a country to die for. This is the spirit which 

 should be taught in all our public schools, encouraged at 

 the fireside and in the churches, that the aim of every boy 

 and young man might be to make this our common country 

 united — one for all, for in unison only is there strength. 

 Then the day will surely come when one could ivish no other 

 epitaph than this: 'He lived and died an American citizen.*" 



He had learned well the lesson that the civic virtues, 



