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Excerpt from Darwin Celebration, Cambridge, June, 1909: Speeches Delivered at the Banquet Held on June 23rd
What especially impressed me was his hatred of slavery. I remember his talking with horror of his sleepless nights when he could not keep out of his mind some incidents from Olmsted's Journeys in the Slave States, a book he had late1y been reading; and in many of his letters to Professor Asa Gray he alludes to slavery with the utmost detestation.
I will not detain you with any recollections of his political Opinions except to say that he was an ardent Liberal, and had a very great admiration for John Stuart Mill and Mr. Gladstone; at the same time he often deplored the almost total lack of interest in science in the House of Commons.
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