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 MR. JUSTICE MOODY discrimination in interpretation for which even the Attorney General's genius might not have sufficed but for the authority of the Supreme Court. Under those decrees he has been the safe adviser of a governor -general in dealing with the subtile races of the mys terious East who can have, as yet, little comprehension, either of the spirit or the benefits of our laws. Again he has had occa sion to enforce our American statutory enact ments upon the foreign soil of Panama, where the laborer has learned to know the same protection as that won for the toiler within our own states. A vigorous man with vigorous mind, with strong heart and physique, alone could have sustained the burden of care and the strain of effort that were the constant attendants of his two years of memorable service as Attorney General. If anyone shall captiously assert that we have used terms of eulogy rather than discriminating analysis in this story, we are justified by the mere recital of facts, and by the reflection that his admin

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istration has moved those whose policies are opposed to those of his own party to words of unanimous approval. And so, fittingly and deservedly, without taint of partisanship or prejudice, he has been elevated to a seat of judicial authority now world wide both in territorial and moral jurisdiction. We are wont to deplore the fact that the learning, wisdom, and effort, even of the most eminent men cannot survive to those who outlive them, and that there can be no accumulations of experience and knowledge, through the added quota of each human life. Happily this reflection does not here depress us, for we are assured that through the coming years, in his contributions to the decisions of the court, there will be left, proof against fading memory, the permanent evi dences of his sound learning, virile con science, and inflexible justice, which are the living, vivid characteristics of Mr. Moody as lawyer, legislator, cabinet officer, and judge. Worcester, Mass., January, 1907.