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repulsive style and manner . But his influence lias been exerted Over the most eminent and energetic actors of the age . To his study have resorted for counsel and aid the most distinguished statesmen , legislators , and patriots of his own country and of the world . In him Howard acknowledged an equal in benevolence , and in mental powers a superior beneficent genius . The
laborious and eloquent Romilly was one of his earliest and most zealous disciples . The illustrious La Fayette , his junior contefnporary and most affectionate and devoted friend , has more than once invoked his aid in the cause of liberty in France ; and one of the last works in which his intellectual strength was put forth , was produced in obedience to his invocation ; and contributed power- * fully to the downfall of the hereditary peerage of the country .
The practical beauty of his works , and the magnitude and beneficence of the changes they tend to effect , have obtained a tribute of unqualified and ardent eulogy from that shrewd master-diplomatist of the age , and most able minister of half a score of governments , the Prince Talleyrand . When first a gleam of hope beamed on Poland , when the probability of the establishment of
a liberal government in this unhappy country arose , his legislative aid was besought by the patriotic and devoted Czartoryski . The legislators of the New World and countrymen of Washington , Franklin , and Jefferson , together with the legislators and patriots of South America , speak of him as a tutelary spirit , and declare the practical application of his principles to be the object and end of their labours .
• I cannot resist the pleasure of quoting a description given of this extraordinary man forty-six years ago , when he was in the prime of manhood , by a distinguished foreigner , who had underestimated him , but who , on visiting England and becoming personally acquainted with the then young jurisconsult , soon rectified his opinion . " If ( says the celebrated Brissot ) the reader has ever
endeavoured to picture in his imagination those rare men wh 6 m heaven sometimes sends upon the earth to console mankind for their sufferings , and who , under the imperfections of the human form , conceal the brightness of an ethereal nature—such men , for example , as Howard or Benezet , he may perhaps conceive some idea of my friend Bentham . Candour in the looks , serenity upon , the brow , calmness in the language , coolness in the movements , imperturbability united with the keenest feelings , such are
his qualities . In describing Howard to me one day he described himself . Howard had devoted himself to the reform of prisons , Bentham to that of the laws which peopled those prisons . Howard saw nothing , thought of nothing , but prisons ; and to better their condition , renounced all pleasures , all spectacles . Bentham has imitated this illustrious example . Selecting the profession of the law , not with the design of practising it , or of acquiring honours or gaining money , but for the purpose of pene ^
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456 On tto CTictractet and Philosophy of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1832, page 456, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1816/page/24/
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