9th Nov.
Tue lamented death of Mr. John Macgregor naturally brings to our winds the question, how fur any one mau is really indispensable, he loss of a personal friend most of us in the East have had to face over and over again; we miss them for a day or two, a week or two, possibly a month or two, but other friends remain, and the wound closes up sooner or later, generally sooner. is only when people grow old, and have lost the opportunity or faculty of making new friends, that they miss their departed friends for any length of time. Of it is true that the gaps in our inner world, our social circle, are soon filled by substitution or contraction, it re-maius to consider whether the death of any one mau can really be said to leave fa permanent gap in the outer world. The great statesman, the great general,
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