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POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS IDEAS.
such careful provision for perpetuating the memory of the dreams which he dreamed, in order that generations yet unborn may realise the ideals which fired his imagination when a youth at Oxford, and which he followed like the fiery cloudy pillar through all his earthly pilgrimage?
To answer this question we have, first of all, his own writings; secondly, his public speeches; and, lastly, we have confidential communings with the friends whom he loved and trusted.
Mr. Rhodes at home studying the Map of Africa.