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Identifier: americanencyclop00blak (find matches)
Title: The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: (Blake, William O.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history Biography
Publisher: Columbus, Published by J. & H. Miller
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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pressure of professional duties, was always cultivated by him. His tastefor books was enduring. He was a constant student, amidst his manifoldlabors, professional and public. He was a reformer in the warfare withevil. He was enlisted earnestly and openly as a soldier for life. Assuch, he did not hesitate to encounter opposition, to meet obloquy, and tobrave his enemies. His conscience, pure as goodness, sustained him inevery trial, even that sharpest of all, the desertion of friends; and yetwhile earnest in his cause, his zeal was tempered beyond that of the com-mon reformer. He knew well the difference between the ideal and theactual, and sought by practical means, in harmony with public sentiment,to promote the public interest. Recognizing in the social and politicalsystem the essential elements of stability and progress, he discerned theoffice of the conservative and the reformer; but he saw, also, that a blindconservatism was not less destructive than a blind reform. He was the47*
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