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self than bis name upon a tomb-stone . By this time it haft probably been obliterated—if he ever had one , " I have heard people say that they could think with more patience of dying , than of being buried ; and I can understand their feeling in thiB respect . It is explicable , indeed , by that sympathy which quickens our tears and deepens our sobs at a burial—as i € there was almost another death for one departed , in this his final abstraction from the sight of the
living world . We feel as if there was a loss after death , and its completion was in the grave . To die is to forget ; to be buried is to b fs forgotten . " The horror of oblivion was not planted in our souls only to sadden us , it being , perhaps , the most powerful and permanent of all motives to useful and honourable action . Let those , who would not be forgotten , deserve to be remembered . The achievements which tend most to raise the minds , to humanize the feelings , and improve the condition of men , are the best securities for a cherished and lasting life in their memories . " —pp . 191 , 192 .
Ayton observes that ** there is no burial for the great benefactors of mankind , ' * but considering the love of fame to be a universal passion , he thinks it would be hard " if some degree of th # enjfc ^ mfeti t werfc not permitted to the crowd , who , wanting abilij ^ br cS pp drt ^ ffi t ^ , caniiot comply witfi the severe condition of"d ^ servTtfg it . ' Among this crowd he modestly places , or seems iq p tace , jhimself . " Th § l ^ ef apd obscure life of Richard Ayton , author of these Essays aqd pjcetqiies of Character * is one of those things which CQ # ieiSy over the mind with the same feeling as a pathetic private recollection . He died in Warren street , Tottenham Court road , in great distress , at the age of thirty-sevens ' Thbse who may Tead the atiove essays , which ' pdfc ^ s 9 ail the irresistible
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1837, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1832/page/11/
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