Don Horacio 



Among the carefully kept papers 

 and personal belongings of Don 

 Horacio, which his executor has 

 kindly placed at my disposal for the 

 purpose of this memoir, are many 

 letters, notes, manuscripts and printed 

 papers, referring to various matters 

 and events in which he had been 

 an interested participant. Notable 

 among these are some long-pre- 

 served epistles from Edward Everett 

 Hale, commenting on the current 

 events of their time. In one of 

 these (1888), addressed to "My 

 dear guide, philosopher and friend," 

 Mr. Hale writes: " I regard you as 

 the prophet of the Politics and social 

 order of the 20th century. This 

 is to be an order based not on 

 Adam Smith's separate and informal 



doctrine of 'the D 1 take the 



hindmost ' but on Jesus Christ's di- 

 rection that we should bear each 

 other's burdens." ..." You and 

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