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THE GREEN BAG

most delightful." Implicit faith is placed in the individual lawyer. It is not alone the great men who give character to a pro fession. In a profession it is the individual that counts. Each is a unit of energy. Our government is a government of law yers. Among a free people the lawyer is always in the ascendant. A written con stitution is his protecting shield. Our roll of great lawyers is long. Yet I cannot forbear a word of eulogy of him who was foremost in the work of our Association, James Coolidge Carter. He was the ideal

lawyer. Always in the zone of conflict, there was no stain on his fair fame. Living, he was the leader of the Bar, and when he died there was universal mourning. Of Governor Russell, Professor Norton said: "He died in a fair hour; he escaped old age." Our brother died in a fairer hour; he reached old age. He lived to fulfill the promise of youth and died in the fullness of time, "Wearing the white flower of a blameless life." BOSTON, MASS., August, 1905.