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and  have  done  so  much  in  that  way  to  bring  about  that  unanimity  of
Imimsuui  feeling,  that  cordiality  of  human  brotherhood,  as  the  distinguished
S^^^^  whom  we  have  here  to-night.    Everything  that  he  has  ever  written  —
X    say  it  without  the  slightest  exception  of  a  single  book,  a  single  page,  or  a
single  word  that  has  ever  preceded  Arom  his  pen  —  has  been  calculated  to
Ixiltase  into  every  human  heart  the  feeling  that  every  man  was  his  brother,
mud  that  the  highest  duty  he  could  do  to  the  world,  and  the  highest  pleasure
lie  could  confer  upon  himself,  and  the  greatest  service  he  could  render  to
luimanity,  was  to  bring  that  other  heart,  whether  high  or  low,  as  close  to  his
Qnvn  as  possible.  [Applause.]    What  he  has  accomplished  in  that  way,  —  how
Buny  human  hearts  he  has  thus  brought  together,  —  how  much  of  kind  feeling
be  has  infbsed  throughout  society,  among  all  men,  of  all  classes,  high  and
low,  rich  and  poor,  powerful  and  weak,  —  how  much  he  has  done  to  infbse  into
tbem  ail  the  spirit  of  brotherhood,  I  know  too  well  the  poverty  of  any  Ian-
page  I  could  use  to  attempt  to  describe.    [Applause.]    But  I  know  that
there  is  not  a  man  here,  and  there  is  not  a  man  who  has  known  any  man
liere,  who  knows  anything  of  his  writings,  who  has  made  himself  familiar
^Hh  their  spirit,  or  has  yielded  to  their  influence,  who  has  not  been  made
thereby  a  better  as  well  as  a  wiser,  and  prouder,  and  kinder,  nobler  man.
