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derhandedness in the conduct of life. I firmly believe that those 

 nations which cultivate physical development by countenancing and 

 promoting athletic sports and contests, with due regard to the ex- 

 clusion of the cowardliness of brutality, will ever possess in their 

 citizens, as compared with those of other nations differently 

 prompted through race, or differently controlled by law or dom- 

 inant public sentiment, a greater proportion than the others of 

 those inspired by independence of character, honor, and disposi- 

 tion to fairness as between man and man, constituting them rela- 

 tively the more stalwart lovers and defenders of the right in every 

 form. 



Obituaty Notice of George de Benneville Keim. 



By D. G. Brinton, M.D. 



{Read before the American Philosophical Society, May 4, i8g4.) 



Those who have had a reasonably long and intimate knowledge 

 of men must have observed that among the individuals prominent 

 in the active affairs of the day there are two classes — the one, 

 of such as are wholly absorbed in their daily pursuits, whose natures 

 are, to use a simile of Shakespeare's, " subdued to what they work 

 in, like the dyer's hands" — the other, who, however compulsive 

 and harassing their avocations, retain an individual and independ- 

 ent freshness of personality, often strangely in contrast with the 

 requirements of their working hours. 



Distinctly to the latter class belonged our late member, George 

 de Benneville Keim; and all who enjoyed his friendship will agree 

 that an appreciation of his career would be imperfect which failed 

 to present these two aspects of his character. I shall begin with 

 that in which he was familiar to the world in general, and then I 

 shall say a few words about him, as he was known to his friends and 

 near associates. 



Mr. Keim was a descendant in the sixth generation of Johann 

 Keim, a member of the Society of Friends, who emigrated from the 

 Rhenish Palatinate to the colony of Penn, and settled at Oley, 

 Berks county, in 1704. The grandson of this Quaker emigrant 

 was General George de Benneville Keim, an officer of note in the 



