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The most important single observation that Should be made here about the relation Of the man to his times is that he continued to View his age as an enlightened liberal. The best Single clue to his political attitudes, as well as his intellectual activities, is to be found in his de termination that men should be set free and kept free in order to move forward in the light of ever-expanding knowledge. Like other men of state he had secondary objectives, but he rarely if ever lost sight Of his clear-purposed goal of human freedom and happiness or failed to reach his important judgments in the light of it. Among the states men of his time he was most notable for his high purposefulness and it would be a grave fault in a biographer to minimize it. On the other hand, as one sees him in thoughtful action day by day, he seems to have been in the best sense an opportunist with respect to immediate ends and particular means. He was neither a doctrinaire philosopher nor a self-seeking politician, but a statesman who effected a distinctive combination of idealism with common sense.
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