How shall we account for two continents giving him such praise and fame?
George Peabody received from his fellows, because he first gave to his fellows.

To his genius for accumulation he added the genius of distribution.

His large gifts to Harvard and Yale, to Salem and Peabody, made to science and art as well as to philanthropy and religion, secured perpetual remembrance.

When the public credit of the State of Maryland was endangered, he negotiated $8,000,000 in London and gave his entire commission of $200,000 back to the State.

He who gave $3,500,000 for founding schools and colleges in the South for black and white, could not but receive honor and praise.