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 there must be in those south-eastern populations of Europe which has power to excite sympathy and pity where they never were enkindled before. Nations and hosts enough of gallant and righteous and blameless men during the justly honoured length of Mr. Carlyle's lifetime have fought and suffered for the right; have given all that man could give for it, dared all that man could dare, done all that man could do, borne all that man could suffer. Yet he who has now so many words and so loud to speak on behalf of Bulgaria had never a word of help, had never a word but of scorn, for Paris or for Hungary or for Poland; for Italy he never had a word. That nation or that province, were it never so abject or so wretched, should be proud for once and happy, which has kindled in the spirit of a man so famous and so strangely strong of heart its one solitary spark of impersonal compassion; if