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much Henry Shaw was deserving of their respect, and that, 
to quote the language of another, for the reason Antony 
said Csesar deserved the loves of the people of Eome — 
" He hath left you all hi 
3 private arbours, and new planted 
this side Tiber; he hath left then 
I have not, however, left important duties and traveled 
several hundred miles simply to eulogize what this man did 
for the city in which he made his home. What he did was 
not local. It was not confined to this city, nor to this 
State, nor to the United States. He gave to the world the 
means whereby the boundaries of human knowledge might 
be enlarged, boundaries that extend beyond those of any 
city, State, or country. And so it happens that every 
year since he died men have been willing to come from 
Universities in the North, the South, the East, and the West 
in order that they might pay tribute to one who has rendered 
service to the race. 
The name of Henry Shaw is enrolled in the Golden 
Book of the Republic. And for years to come, whenever 
in any portion of our country mention is made of the 
great philanthropists of the United States his name will be 
spoken with honor. Verily wheresoever in the whole 
world men discuss what has been done to enlarge the hori- 
zon of knowledge there also this that this man hath done 
deserves to be told for a memorial of him. 
"For myself," said the great Spinoza, " I am certain 
that the good of human life cannot lie in the possession of 
things which, for one man to possess, is for the rest to lose, 
but rather in things which all can possess, and where one 
man's wealth promotes his neighbor's." The good of the 
life of Henry Shaw does not he in the fact that he amassed 
millions which others lost, but that he so possessed them 
as to enable others to share with him in the benefits which 
