o suppose, from the appearances upon opening the body,
that in the course of nature he might have attained, like his father, to
a good old age. Yet he cannot be said to have fallen prematurely whose
work was done; nor ought he to be lamented who died so full of honours,
at the height of human fame. The most triumphant death is that of the
martyr; the most awful that of the martyred patriot; the most splendid
that of the hero in the hour of victory: and if the chariot and horses
of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely
have departed in a brighter blaze of glory. He has left us, not indeed
his mantle of inspiration, but a name and an example which are at this
hour inspiring thousands of the youth of England: a name which is our
pride, and an example which will continue to be our shield and our
strength. Thus it is that the spirits of the great and the wise continue
to live and to act after them; verifying, in this sense, the language of
the old mythologist:--

[The book ends with two lines of ancient Greek by the poet Hesiod. Their
meaning is approximately that of the final lines above.]

[In this text, to keep the character set to the minimum 'vanilla ASCII':
italics have been converted to capitals, accents etc. have been omitted,
and the British 'Pound' currency symbol has been written as 'L'. Where
angles are given in degrees, minutes and seconds; the abbreviations d, m,
s have been used.]

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