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Last Sunday we met here to reflect on the work of Mahomet and the foundation and his tory of Islam. To-day - how vast a sense of humanity does it imply, to note the interval and contrast - we turn to judge Gambetta and the Republic in France. The few weeks have passed that Comte judged expedient as an in terval for the fair judgment of the dead; the flowers in the wreaths upon his grave are hardly withered, and how much has happened since his death! Within a month we see (as we could not see in the hour of his disappear ance) all that his death involved.
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