He has left us, not indeed his mantle of inspiration, but a name and an example which are at this hour inspiring thousands of the youth of England: a name which is our pride, and an example which will continue to be our shield and our strength.

Thus it is that the spirits of the great and the wise continue to live and to act after them; verifying, in this sense, the language of the old mythologist:-- [The book ends with two lines of ancient Greek by the poet Hesiod.

Their meaning is approximately that of the final lines above.] [In this text, to keep the character set to the minimum 'vanilla ASCII': italics have been converted to capitals, accents etc.

have been omitted, and the British 'Pound' currency symbol has been written as 'L'.

Where angles are given in degrees, minutes and seconds; the abbreviations d, m, s have been used.].