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  section 
  was 
  distinguished 
  for 
  its 
  scientific 
  arrangement, 
  and 
  r 
  

   therefore, 
  for 
  its 
  practical 
  utility, 
  and 
  that 
  a 
  lesson 
  might 
  be 
  

   learnt 
  from 
  it. 
  He 
  was 
  particularly 
  struck 
  by 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  

   things 
  in 
  Professor 
  Goode's 
  discourse. 
  The 
  numbers 
  which 
  

   he 
  cited 
  the 
  mind 
  rather 
  lost 
  itself 
  in, 
  as 
  it 
  did 
  in 
  the 
  vast 
  

   distances 
  of 
  astronomy, 
  but 
  there 
  were 
  some 
  other 
  points 
  

   which 
  interested 
  him 
  particularly, 
  especially 
  one 
  in 
  which 
  

   they 
  were 
  informed 
  that 
  the 
  protection 
  of 
  fish 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  

   States 
  was 
  now 
  due, 
  if 
  he 
  understood 
  it 
  rightly, 
  rather 
  to 
  

   individual 
  effort, 
  if 
  he 
  might 
  so 
  call 
  it, 
  on 
  the 
  part 
  of 
  

   societies 
  than 
  to 
  any 
  statutes. 
  That 
  was 
  rather 
  a 
  curious 
  as 
  

   well 
  as 
  an 
  interesting 
  illustration 
  of 
  one 
  at 
  least 
  of 
  the 
  

   results 
  of 
  that 
  progress 
  of 
  democracy 
  of 
  which 
  many 
  people 
  

   stood 
  so 
  much 
  in 
  terror. 
  It 
  was 
  a 
  remarkable 
  fact, 
  and 
  

   recalled 
  to 
  his 
  recollection 
  something 
  he 
  was 
  told 
  a 
  year 
  or 
  

   two 
  ago 
  by 
  a 
  gentleman 
  from 
  Pittsburg, 
  who 
  was 
  then 
  pass- 
  

   ing 
  through 
  London, 
  in 
  speaking 
  of 
  the 
  riots 
  in 
  Pittsburg 
  

   some 
  ten 
  years 
  ago. 
  He 
  was 
  in 
  London 
  at 
  the 
  time, 
  and,, 
  

   therefore, 
  did 
  not 
  know 
  the 
  facts. 
  This 
  gentleman 
  said 
  it 
  

   was 
  generally 
  supposed 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  put 
  down 
  by 
  the 
  

   militia, 
  but 
  it 
  was 
  nothing 
  of 
  the 
  kind 
  ; 
  the 
  rioters 
  put 
  down 
  

   the 
  militia, 
  but 
  it 
  was 
  public 
  opinion 
  that 
  put 
  down 
  the 
  

   riots. 
  He 
  said 
  it 
  was 
  perfectly 
  true 
  that 
  when 
  the 
  strike 
  

   of 
  workmen 
  began 
  it 
  was 
  approved 
  by 
  public 
  opinion 
  ; 
  that 
  

   people 
  thought 
  the 
  reduction 
  of 
  wages 
  was 
  unwise, 
  that 
  they 
  

   were 
  low 
  enough 
  already, 
  but 
  the 
  moment 
  the 
  workpeople 
  

   came 
  to 
  violence 
  public 
  opinion 
  went 
  round 
  to 
  the 
  other 
  side, 
  

   and 
  they 
  were 
  left 
  as 
  it 
  were 
  in 
  a 
  vacuum 
  in 
  which 
  they 
  

   could 
  not 
  breathe. 
  The 
  difficulty 
  of 
  protecting 
  anything 
  

   in 
  a 
  country 
  so 
  wide 
  as 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  he 
  remembered 
  

   having 
  a 
  practical 
  illustration 
  of 
  himself 
  once, 
  when 
  the 
  

   State 
  of 
  Maine 
  endeavoured 
  to 
  protect 
  the 
  moose, 
  which 
  

   was 
  becoming 
  extinct. 
  He, 
  when 
  up 
  in 
  the 
  depths 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  