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talent for speech, but lamentaUy wanted that of 

 silence." But he worked like a Hercules. He 

 does not charm the demons away like Emerson, but 

 he defies them. Emerson wins them over, but Car- 

 lyle explodes them with their own sulphur. Each 

 man rendered his age and country a signal service, 

 and to rule them out of the company of the great 

 authors is to rob that company of the two names 

 of this century it can least afford to lose. 



