Excerpt from The Whittier Year Book: Passages From the Verse and Prose of John Greenleaf Whittier Chosen for the Daily Food of the Lover of Thought and Beauty I have remembered the names of Quincy, Palfrey, Sewall, May, Arago, Monod, and others, - friends of humanity. Nor have I failed to include, as seemed fitting, some prominent Quakers: as Gur ney, Fry, Grimke, Mott, Barton, and Bene zet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.