The child will never place his aims high, and pursue them steadily, unless the parent has taught him what energy, and elevation of purpose, mean not less by example than by precept.
In that company of indefatigable workers none equalled the labours of Zachary Macaulay.

Even now, when he has been in his grave for more than the third of a century, it seems almost an act of disloyalty to record the public services of a man who thought that he had done less than nothing if his exertions met with praise, or even with recognition.

The nature and value of those services may be estimated from the terms in which a very competent judge, who knew how to weigh his words, spoke of the part which Mr.Macaulay played in one only of his numerous enterprises,--the suppression of slavery and the slave-trade.

"That God had called him into being to wage war with this gigantic evil became his immutable conviction.

During forty successive years he was ever burdened with this thought.