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''His consistent energy is native to him and his race. He is a 
very fine example of the perseverance, doggedness, and tenacity 
which characterizes the Anglo-Saxon spirit. His ability to with¬ 
stand the climate is due not only to the happy constitution with 
which he was born, but to the strictly temperate life he has ever led. 
"It is a principle with him to do well what he undertakes to do, 
and, in the consciousness that he is doing it, despite the yearning 
for his home, which is sometimes overpowering, he finds to a certain 
extent contentment, if not happiness. 
CHARM OF ETHIOPIA’S CHILDREN. 
"He can be charmed with the primitive simplicity of Ethiopia’s 
dusky' children, with whom he has spent so many years of his life. 
He has a sturdy faith in their capability—sees virtue in them, where 
others see nothing but savagery; and wherever he has gone among 
them, he has sought to ameliorate the condition of a people who are 
apparently forgotten of God and Christian men.” 
In another place Stanley says: "Livingstone followed the 
dictates of duty. Never was such a willing slave to that abstract 
virtue. His inclinations impell him home, the fascinations of which 
require the sternest resolution to resist. With every foot of new 
ground he travelled over he forged a chain of sympathy which 
should hereafter bind the Christian nations in bonds of love and 
charity to the heathen of the African Tropics. If we were able 
to complete this chain of love by actual discovery, and, by a descrip¬ 
tion of them, to embody such people and nations as still live in dark¬ 
ness, so as to attract the good and charitable of his own land to 
bestir themselves for their redemption and salvation, this 
Livingstone would consider an ample reward. 
"Surely, as the sun shines on both Christian and infidel, 
civilized and pagan, the day of enlightenment will come; and though 
the apostle of Africa may not behold it himself, nor we younger 
men, nor yet our children, the hereafter will see it, and posterity 
will recognize the daring pioneer of its civilization.” 
Yes, and Stanley might have added: with his enlarged and 
far-seeing mind, this is what encourages Livingstone to persevere 
