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if he left one enmity to upraid his memory, it was in a scoun- 
drel’s heart. For so upright and unexacting was he in all his 
dealings that, whatsoever he received of possessions, of happi- 
ness, of good fame and honor, came always short of his true 
deserving. I dare affirm with no shade of doubt that never in all 
his days did he acquire an unjust penny, do an unworthy deed, 
receive award of merit not entirely his'due. If, in any error of 
judgment, any slip of haste, he mistakenly dropped a word of 
harm, quick atonement followed its discovery. 
I have recounted as his shining achievement of what men call 
greatness: no lustrous triumph in adyocacy at the bar; no 
supremacy in the state, no preeminence in arms, no wondrous 
writing. But it may be truly said, if all men were as he, the 
ereatness of any would be little needed. Among such a people 
peace and kindness would discard necessity of warriors, states- 
men, courts, officials, requisite now to master passion, fraud and 
wrong. Yet though his ambition aimed at lower flights, it led 
him where his usefulness to fellow men attained to the best per- 
formances his gifts from nature enabled. Could he render better 
account for the talent given by the master? A sweeter soul of 
human kindness, gentleness, devotion and good will, a spirit of 
higher rectitude and purity, the angel of death has rarely ush- 
ered to the realms above. If amidst the greedy strifes of earth, 
it may not be here a treasure of enduring memory, let us rejoice 
in the faith which assures him an eternity of recognition in 
heaven. 

