Our last, in a double sense.  For here finally these wide roamings of ours
through so many times and places, in search and study of Heroes, are to
terminate.  I am sorry for it: there was pleasure for me in this business,
if also much pain.  It is a great subject, and a most grave and wide one,
this which, not to be too grave about it, I have named _Hero-worship_.  It
enters deeply, as I think, into the secret of Mankind's ways and vitalest
interests in this world, and is well worth explaining at present.  With six
months, instead of six days, we might have done better.  I promised to
break ground on it; I know not whether I have even managed to do that.  I
have had to tear it up in the rudest manner in order to get into it at all.
Often enough, with these abrupt utterances thrown out isolated,
unexplained, has your tolerance been put to the trial.  Tolerance, patient
candor, all-hoping favor and kindness, which I will not speak of at
present.  The accomplished and distinguished, the beautiful, the wise,
something of what is best in England, have listened patiently to my rude
words.  With many feelings, I heartily thank you all; and say, Good be with
you all! 

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