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The whole thing is a miserable lie and invention made out of whole cloth.
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Hoar condemns the falsehoods circulating about his beliefs as completely fabricated.
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There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
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.
It relates to matters more permanent than human life.
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