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cherished rather than the speculative and metaphysical — while 

 humanity is permitted the unfettered exercise of reason and the 

 free cultivation of those faculties that alone constitute the distinc- 

 tion between man and the brute, there is little fear for human 

 progress in a country which, if Greece could boast of her PhidiaSj 

 has produced the sculptor of the Greek slave, Hiram Powers. 



