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the spirit which informed it. Those who knew him 

 best loved him most, and none came into touch with 

 his eager, sympathetic, breezy, and altogether beauti- 

 ful nature without receiving an impulse to higher 

 aims. Of spotless integrity in every relation, and 

 single-minded in every purpose, he went on from 

 strength to strength, because each step made the 

 Tightness of the path which he had chosen more 

 manifest. One " who never turned his back, but 

 marched breast forward " ; unswayed by motives of 

 worldly prudence; undeterred by authority which 

 could produce no valid warrant of its claims ; gov- 

 erned by " morality touched by emotion," and guided 

 by reason within limits which none have defined so 

 well, — he remains alike an example and an inspiration 

 to all men for all time. 



