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civilised mankind. Yet longer, perhaps, ere we find a 

 brighter example of a life of such continued and useful 

 self-devotion to a noble cause." 



In a recent letter to Dr. Livingstone's eldest daughter, 

 Sir Bartle Frere (after saying that he was first introduced 

 to Dr. Livingstone by Mr. Phillip, the painter, as " one 

 of the noblest men he had ever met," and rehearsing the 

 history of his early acquaintance) remarks : — 



" I could hardly venture to describe my estimate of 

 his character as a Christian further than by saying that 

 I never met a man who fulfilled more completely my idea 

 of a perfect Christian gentleman, — actuated in what he 

 thought, and said, and did, by the highest and most 

 chivalrous spirit, modelled on the precepts of his great 

 Master and Exemplar. 



"Asa man of science, I am less competent to judge, 

 for my knowledge of his work is to a great extent second- 

 hand ; but derived, as it is, from observers like Sir Thomas 

 Maclear, and geographers like Arrowsmith, I believe him 

 to be quite unequalled as a scientific traveller, in the care 

 and accuracy with which he observed. In other branches 

 of science I had more opportunities of satisfying myself, 

 and of knowing how keen and accurate was his observa- 

 tion, and how extensive his knowledge of everything con- 

 nected with natural science; but every page of his journals, 

 to the last week of his life, testified to his wonderful 

 natural powers and accurate observation. Thirdly, as a 

 missionary and explorer I have always put him in the 

 very first rank. He seemed to me to possess in the most 

 wonderful degree that union of opposite qualities which 

 were required for such a work as opening out heathen 

 Africa to Christianity and civilisation. No man had a 

 keener sympathy with even the most barbarous and un- 

 enlightened ; none had a more ardent desire to benefit and 

 improve the most abject. In his aims, no man attempted, 

 on a grander or more thorough! scale, to benefit and im- 



