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know ?) how the love of the Union was to become the means 

 of destroying slavery throughout the United States. 



Philip remained in Washington five months ; and had at 

 last to obtain the permission of Dr. Henry, who treated him 

 "with the greatest confidence," to take much of his work with 

 him to England. Before his return, he went to Boston and 

 the neighbourhood, as Professor Agassiz was anxious to confer 

 with him; and he visited some other naturalists on the way. 

 He sailed from New York near the end of May, having 

 travelled about 12,400 miles in America. Before he left, the 

 University of the State of New York (" which is not a teaching 

 and examining body, but exercises the functions of a Ministry 

 of public instruction ") marked their appreciation of his labours 

 for American science by conferring on him the degree of 

 Doctor of Philosophy,* an honour which they had never before 

 bestowed. He wrote to me : " The N. Y. doings are songs 

 to a heavy heart ; but I hope will please you. I have 

 answered them as gratefully as I could." He showed his 

 gratitude by using the title, which made it more easy for him 

 to avoid that of "Reverend/ 5 against which he had always 

 protested. 



The sadness to which he referred arose from anxiety respect- 

 ing the little boy, of whom he had written (p. 232). He sup- 

 posed him to be an orphan; but it proved that he and his 

 younger brother were children of persons who had once been 

 well off, but who had neglected them, -and finally renounced 

 all claim to them, when they were received into the House of 

 Refuge at Baltimore. Robbie was bound over to the janitor 

 at the Institution, who sometimes spared him to Philip, to help 

 to wash shells, etc.. and allowed him occasionally to spend 

 half an hour with him for instruction. Philip felt a strong 

 parental feeling for the child, and he had an intense dread of 

 what might happen to him in that "enslaved and enslaving 

 city." During his five months' loneliness, he considered the 

 subject in all its bearings, and his heart was set on adopting 



* The degree was granted by the Regents, March 20th : and the 

 diploma was sent him by their secretary, April 1 8th. 



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