July 29.
One hundred years ago to-day ithe death took place in well-learned retirement in London of la great English philanthropist whose selfless labours for the cause of suffering humanity were recognised by burial in Westminster Abbey, close to Pitt, Fox, and Canning, political giants of his generation. William Wilberforce, whose mame is so inseparably linked with the abolition of the shameful slave trade, inspired and led la national crusade. To-day that jerusade is world-wide in its scope. Ten years ago at Geneva the League of Nations adopted a resolution moved by an Englishman, Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, jealling for a survey of the extent lof slavery then existing in the rid. A commission of inquiry Twas ppointed, and two years,
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