Those interested in the study of his granduncle,
Nathan, owe to him the preservation of many
records of the Hale family, and an arrangement
of the genealogy of the Hale family, made while
he was a Unitarian minister in Worcester, Mas-
sachusetts, and kindly lent to the Hon. I.W. Stuart,
one of Hale's early biographers.

It will be long before some of Edward Everett
Hale's vital words are forgotten; longer still before
his marvelous story, "The Man Without a Country,"
shall cease to thrill its readers.

The impassioned sentences in which he cites its
unhappy hero as speaking to a boy--a midshipman--
while under heavy stress, read, "For your
country, boy, and for your flag, never dream a
dream but of serving her as she bids you, though
the service carry you through a thousand hells.
No matter what happens to you, no matter who
flatters you or who abuses you, never look at another
flag, never let a night pass but you pray God
to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind
all these men you have to do with, behind officers,
and government, and people even, there is the
Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong
to Her as you belong to your own mother."

No one justly comprehending the bed rock of
Edward Everett Hale's boundless patriotism can

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