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in his place, I should infallibly have risen up and slain that Chairman, and claimed from a jury of my countrymen a verdict of “Served him right!”
The lesson of that occasion was burnt into my soul; so Professor Murray need not fear that I am going to pour out to you the stores of my erudition on the subject of the Stoics. No doubt, half an hour with the Encyclopædia Britannica would have supplied me with some capital anecdotes of Zeno, and Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius; but I have sternly averted my face from temptation. The ideal Chairman, as I conceive him, ought to emulate as nearly as possible the ideal child—who is “seen but not heard.” If I fall away from that ideal, it is only to express my belief that there is no man in
