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From a photograph. 138 The South Boston Home of Mr. and Mrs. Howe
From a painting in the possession of M. Anagnos. 152 Wendell Phillips, at the Age of 48
From a photograph lent by Francis J. Garrison, Boston. 158 Theodore Parker
From a photograph by J. J. Hawes. 166 Julia Ward Howe
From a painting (1847) by Joseph Ames. 176 Samuel Gridley Howe, M. D.
From a photograph by Black, about 1859. 230 James Freeman Clarke
From a photograph by the Notman Photographic Company. 246 John Brown
From a photograph (about 1857) lent by Francis J. Garrison, Boston. 254 John A. Andrew
From a photograph by Black. 262 Julia Ward Howe
From a photograph by J. J. Hawes, about 1861. 270 Facsimile of the First Draft of the Battle Hymn of the Republic
From the original MS. in the possession of Mrs. E. P. Whipple, Boston. 276 Ralph Waldo Emerson
From a photograph by Black. 292 Frederic Henry Hedge, D. D.
From a photograph lent by his daughter, Charlotte A. Hedge. 302 Samuel Gridley Howe, M. D.
From a photograph by A. Marshall (1870), in the possession of the Massachusetts Club. 328 Lucy Stone
From a photograph by the Notman Photographic Company. 376 Maria Mitchell
From a photograph. 386 The Newport Home of Mr. and Mrs. Howe
From a photograph by Briskham and Davidson. 406 Thomas Gold Appleton
From a photograph lent by Mrs. John Murray Forbes. 432 Julia Romana Anagnos
From a photograph. 440

REMINISCENCES

CHAPTER I

BIRTH, PARENTAGE, CHILDHOOD

I have been urgently asked to put together my reminiscences. I could wish that I had begun to do so at an earlier period of my life, because at this time of writing the lines of the past are somewhat confused in my memory. Yet, with God's help, I shall endeavor to do justice to the individuals whom I have known, and to the events of which I have had some personal knowledge.

Let me say at the very beginning that I esteem this century, now near its close, to have eminently deserved a record among those which have been great landmarks in human history. It has seen the culmination of prophecies, the birth of new hopes, and a marvelous multiplication both of the ideas which promote human happiness and of the resources which enable man to make himself master of the world. Napoleon is said to have forbidden his subordinates to tell him that any order of his was impossible of fulfillment. One might think that the genius of this age must have uttered a like injunction. To attain instantaneous communication with our friends across oceans and through every continent; to command locomotion whose swiftness changes the relations of space and time; to steal from Nature her deepest secrets, and to make disease itself the minister of cure; to compel the sun to keep for us the record of scenes and faces, of the great shows and pageants of time, of the perishable forms whose charm and beauty deserve to remain in the world's possession,—these are some of the achievements of our nineteenth century. Even more wonderful than these may we esteem the moral progress of the race; the decline of political and religious enmities,