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more respect for conventions, more 

 deference to authority especially when 

 unreasonable, more devotion to all 

 Administrations and Constitutions, 

 in short, with more admiration for 

 principles and powers of every sort, 

 and society in all its dogmatic forms, 

 — he would not have chosen the man 

 he did. You may take it for certain 

 that in all America there was no per- 

 son on whom his restless energy was 

 likely to have so little effect as on 

 me. Now, my moral belongs here, 

 and it is the measure of King's na- 

 ture. To him it mattered little that, 

 a year after our stay at Dos Bocas, 

 Maceo and Gomez raised the stan- 

 dard of rebellion, and our Cuban 

 friends were swept into it. He found 

 it natural and easy to follow them, 

 and he flung himself into it, as you 

 remember, with all his old energy of 

 feeling. When I saw him the next 

 winter, he was already deep in it. I 

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