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There is not a man in Massachusetts who has more at heart the welfare and perpetuity of our system of free common schools than I have.
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Hoar emphasizes his dedication to the welfare of free public education in Massachusetts.
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His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
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