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“...institution of such a day, and for such a man, ij prone,
too often, to intrude his own personality into the picture, or
for the sake of rounding a period or turning a phrase to blur
the impression which should be given and thus mar the like-
ness. I trust that I will not have sinned in that respect.
Again, it is many times the practice to enlarge the figure
to heroic size, to magnify the services and exaggerate the
claims upon the future. It is not my purpose to place our
dead comrade upon a pedestal high above the crowd. Time
will give the true perspective of his merits, when we are gone.
It is to his greater honor that being thoroughly human and
amid the cares and struggles and opportunities and environ-...”
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