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He was unquestionably, at the time of his death, the most famous teacher of law in the civilized world.
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Hoar acknowledges the global reputation of a leading law teacher at the time of his death.
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Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
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