There was left him the compensation of intellectual freedom.

That he sought to realize in every possible way.

He had very little opportunity to prosecute his education, which, in truth, had never been begun.

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school; but he lost nothing of what was to be learned through reading, through attendance at public meetings, through exercising the rights of citizenship.

Even here he was hindered by a natural inability to acquire the English language.