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On we go with the stream of events. Shall our lives also 

 make the world better ? The light is from on high. The 

 powers of the earth come from the heavens. They who 

 have wielded these powers best are placed in the firma- 

 ment of history. 



The method of human progress is not through the 

 survival of the fittest, for man is more than brute. 



The agency for the progress of mankind is the influence 

 of the fittest. In all ages this has been recognized, now 

 clearly, now dimly. In harmony with its principles, those 

 who have best served humanity have been placed on high 

 among the stars of our history, that the light of their 

 immortal deeds may forever shine upon the pathway of 

 mortal men. 



George Hammell Cook is among the stars. On earth 

 he loved justice and rendered justice ; he loved the truth 

 and sought the truth ; and, dead, he lives again, the star 

 of justice and truth. O, venerable friend, your counsels 

 were wise and your example beneficent; shine on, to 

 illumine our way to the truth and the right with the light 

 of the knowledge of the glory of God. 



