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Excerpt from The Life and Public Services of Hon. Horace Greeley, Liberal Republican Candidate for President of the United States and of Hon. B. Gratz Brown, Candidate for Vice President: With a Record of the Proceedings of the Cincinnati Convention, Address to the People Platform of the Party, Etc;, Etc
SO entire and passionate a devotion to the acquisition of knowl edge in one so young, would be remarkable in any circumstances. But when the situation Ofthe boy is considered - living in a remote and very rural district - few books accessible - few literary persons residing near - the school contributing scarcely anything to his mental nourishment - no other boy in the neighborhood manifest ing any particular interest in learning - the people about him all engaged in a rude and hard struggle to extract the means Of sub sistence from a rough and rocky soil - such an intense, absorbing, and persistent love of knowledge as that exhibited by Horace Greeley, must be accounted very extraordinary.
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