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admire the unswerving loyalty with which he ever served his country; and to feel, with Robert Louis Stevenson, that "God has made nobler heroes, but He never made a finer gentleman than Walter Ralegh."
To every patriotic American this heroic figure should appeal with a special enthusiasm, since, as Charles Kingsley has said,—
"To this one man, under the Providence of Almighty God, the whole United States of America owe their existence."
Henry Aiken Metcalf
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