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your name on these few pages, not that I wish to make you in any sense responsible for their contents, nor that in writing of the education of others I can venture to speak publicly of the parental training your own children have received.

But at this time, when the public response to plans in which I have taken part far exceeds my expectation, I cannot but give some utterance to a feeling common to all your sons (especially cherished by him who, since these lines were first penned, has been called from the midst of his unceasing work for others to the rest he longed for), that, if we are ever permitted to help on what is useful and good, we owe it to you. For we inherit friendships and sympathies won by your hearty love of worth and excellence in whatever rank they are to be found, and by your instinctive sense of what is due from man to man.

In acting with others earnestly engaged in promoting the good of their fellow countrymen, whether physical, intellectual, or moral, your sons can but follow the path marked out by their father nearly half a century ago.

T. D. A., Jun.