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the zones. Among his relatives were Lady Hester 

 Stanhope, George Grenville, and Lord Grenville, who 

 himself was premier. 



Who was Lord Macaulay ? His grandfather was a 

 Scottish minister of Inverary, who was mentioned 

 by Johnson in his account of his trip to the Hebrides. 

 His father was Zachary, an abolitionist, who began a 

 war which had its completion in the American civil 

 contest. [Applause.] Zachary Macaulay was, in 

 many respects, a greater man than his son. Bal- 

 anced, deeply philosophical, a massive soul, he went 

 to the coast of Africa, he bore persecution there, and 

 he bore it for a while with Wilberforce in England, in 

 order to carry past its breaking that earliest slowly- 

 rising wave of anti-slavery, of which we now hear 

 the retreating murmurs, half a million corpses borne 

 floating within its green breast. Who was his uncle? 

 Colin Macaulay, a general, a right-hand man of the 

 Duke of Wellington in his Indian campaigns. Who 

 was another uncle? Aulay Macaulay, a distin- 

 guished controversialist. Who was his first cousin? 

 John Heyrick, head master of Repton, a renowned 

 scholar. Who was his nephew? George Trevelyan, 

 a member of parliament and junior lord of the treas- 

 ury, and author of " Cawnpore." 



Assembled here upon the Acropolis, look about 

 upon all the summits of intellectual, moral, and so- 

 cial development, and you will find a sun rising 

 behind them, a truth to which the ages have as yet 

 hardly listened, that blood means God. Behind 

 many clouds there brightens slowly in the rear of 



