Life of Count Rumford. 509 



And though his efforts to reform pauperism and mendicity 

 found their principal field abroad, and this was but one of many 

 ways in which he sought to be of use, the results by example 

 belong to the world, and our Chardon Street building, the first 

 of its kind, would not seem an inappropriate place to do honor 

 to one whose fame belongs especially to Massachusetts, and to 

 Boston as its capital." 



