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Show I DEATH OF PROFESSOR FREEMAN. ChJcafn lleruld. In Um clcatli of Edward Auiruatus Free. ! man Kul'IuoiI losei one of her most diligent j PtudciiU of history, one of the nioet ttccom- plislied IlllntraUm of her prorese ami a iiittsti r of Kuglish, tii h, not com paring in I many aulicnt traits with tlmt of contempor urice more purely litem ry, is r. popular model of ( Irani, -Hi autl fieedoui, Less scieu-tiUc scieu-tiUc than Miiy in his xplormUoD ot eonsti tutional growth, Krecuian brought home to Ms generation of Englishmen the living forces in the'r Lest development more effectually effect-ually than Stublis, less technically thau Taswcli l.nngmead; for, as these wrote for lawyers or learned iiicii, Kreeinan wrote for all people of intelligence. Otic of the grcr.lc 'luties be performed was to drive Kroude I 'fa Held in which his audacity and tparlOUim M had pcrinilled bUn to work too lOBIf, ulliug his day with false, warrants and nmk.ng it more, dillii ult f'r the Kngllsh ; oople to get at the truth of their own genesis. Krecmau's exposure of Kioude'o suhstantial forgeries, inisiiiotation and crass ignorance ws so unanswerable that I'roude a conipei., .1 to take los alert imagination and pictorial pen to other lields. l'rofeasor Freeman' analysis oi tbe rsipotv sibility of Lnglaud fur Turkey expladcd the rouiautiu striicluru ol heaconstield's oriental policy. Since the publication of bis itory of the Ottoman Empire it has been impossible for any Urttish poll lician to undertake the defense of Disraeli's attitude toward Mohammedanism Id Europe. Without promoting the aggressive pretensions preten-sions of itussia. Freeman showed that to repress re-press her in behalf of the Turk was at least doing civilization no good. Freeman car-rled car-rled into ail his work, of which lie leaves a prodigious quontity, large sympathies, with good, quick understanding of essential relations re-lations and a simple worship of humanity and liberty that will exert on the next generation gen-eration even greater power than the present is able to feel. He cleared the way in great part in intellectual England for the practical practi-cal legislative progress of the liberals. ... . |