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have acquired fresh impetus as he approached the 

 goal. 



For desultory work in the shape of magazine ar- 

 ticles he had little leisure ; but two essays of his, 

 on " The Failure of Universal Suffrage " and on 

 " The Eeasons against Woman Suffrage," are very 

 thoughtful, and worthy of serious consideration. 

 In questions of political philosophy, his conclusions, 

 which were reached from a very wide and impar- 

 tial survey of essential facts, always seemed to me 

 of the highest value. 



When I look back upon Parkman's noble life, 

 I think of Mendelssohn's chorus, " He that shall 

 endure to the end," with its chaste and severely 

 beautiful melody, and the calm, invincible faith 

 which it expresses. After all the harrowing years 

 of doubt and distress, the victory was such in its 

 magnitude as has been granted to but few mortals 

 to win. He lived to see his life's work done ; the 

 thought of his eighteenth year was realized in his 

 sixty-ninth ; and its greatness had come to be ad- 

 mitted throughout the civilized world. In Septem- 

 ber, 1893, his seventieth year was completed, and 

 his autumn in the lovely home at Jamaica Plain 

 was a pleasant one. On the first Sunday after- 

 noon in November he rowed on the pond in his 

 boat, but felt ill as he returned to the house, and 



