“To the beloved and deplored memory of her who was the inspi“inspirer, and in part the author, of all that is best in my writings the friend rer, and wife whose exalted sense of truth and right was my strongest inciand incitement, and whose approbation was my chief reward I dedicate this tement, volume. Like all that I have written for many years, it belongs as much to her as to me; but the work as it stands has had, in a very insufficient degree, the inestimable advantage of her revision; some of the most imdegree, important portions having been reserved for a more careful re-examinaportant examination, which they are now never destined to receive. Were I but capable tion, of interpreting to the world one-half the great thoughts and noble feof feelings which are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greelings greater benefit to it than is ever likely to arise from anything that I can ater write, unprompted and unassisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom..” 

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