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thank whatever gods there be that it is not
merely thou and I, our few friends and next of
kin, but all humanity, that scientific faith em-
braces and will sustain.
  " People who have been among the southern
mountaineers testify," says Mr. Fox, " that, as
a race, they are proud, sensitive, hospitable,
kindly, obliging in an unreckoning way that is
almost pathetic, honest, loyal, in spite of their
common ignorance, poverty, and isolation; that
they are naturally capable, eager to learn, easy
to uplift. Americans to the core, they make the
southern mountains a storehouse of patriotism;
in themselves they are an important offset to the
Old World outcasts whom we have welcomed
to our shores; and they surely deserve as much
consideration from the nation as the negroes, or
as the heathen, to whom we give millions."
  President Frost, of Berea College, who has
worked among these people for nearly a life-
time, and has helped to educate their young
folks by thousands, says: " It does one's heart
good to help a young Lincoln who comes walk-
ing in perhaps a three-days' journey on foot,
with a few hard-earned dollars in his pocket and
a great eagerness for the education he can so
faintly comprehend. (Scores of our young peo-