458 DA VID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xxii. 



Lastly, we give the beautiful wreath of Florence 

 Nightingale, also in the form of a letter to Dr. Living- 

 stone's daughter : — 



" London, Feb. 18, 1874. 



" Dear Miss Livingstone, — I am only one of all 

 England which is feeling with you and for you at this 

 moment. 



" But Sir Bartle Frere encourages me to write 

 to you. 



" We cannot help still yearning to hear of some hope 

 that your great father may be still alive. 



" God knows ; and in knowing that He knows who 

 is all wisdom, goodness and power, we must find our 

 rest. 



" He has taken away, if at last it be as we fear, 

 the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone 

 stood alone. 



" There are few enough, but a few statesmen. There 

 are few enough, but a few great in medicine, or in art, or 

 in poetry. There are a few great travellers. But Dr. 

 Livingstone stood alone as the great Missionary Traveller, 

 the bringer-in of civilisation ; or rather the pioneer of 

 civilisation — he that cometh before — to races lying in 

 darkness. 



"I always think of him as what John the Baptist, 

 had he been living in the nineteenth century, would 

 have been. 



" Dr. Livingstone's fame was so world-wide that 

 there were other nations who understood him even 

 better than we did. 



" Learned philologists from Germany, not at all 

 orthodox in their opinions, have yet told me that Dr. 

 Livingstone was the only man who understood races, and 

 how to deal with them for good ; that he was the one 

 true missionary. We cannot console ourselves for our 

 loss, He is irreplaceable. 



