INTRODUCTION 
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but the weaker body refused to bear the last burden laid on 
it by the indomitable spirit. His wanderings are now over, 
and he rests from his labours, far from his native England 
and his friends, in a lonely grave under the southern stars. 
But his writings will long survive him for the enlighten¬ 
ment of a distant posterity and for a monument, more lasting 
than any of bronze or marble, to his fame. 
