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listen to the grave lecture and mingle in the social circle of Savigny, so stately in person and peculiar in countenance, whom all the Continent of Europe delights to honor: but my heart and my judgment, untravelled, fondly turn with new love and admiration to my Cambridge teacher and friend.
Jurisprudence has many arrows in her quiver, but where is one to compare with that which is now spent in the earth?
Works, Vol.
I. p. 144.
In his argument before the Supreme Court of
Massachusetts against the constitutionality of separate schools for colored children, Dec. 4, 1849, he said:—
And let me add, if I may refer to my own experience, that at the School of Law in Paris I have sat for weeks on the same benches with colored pupils, listening, like myself, to the learned lectures of De Gerando and Rossi; nor do I remember, in the throng of sensitive young men, any feeling toward them except of companionship and respect.
Works, Vol.
II. P. 376.
During his last few weeks in
Paris, he endeavored to promote the election of
Judge Story as a member of the French Institute, and for that purpose prepared in French a memoir of the judge's career and writings, which he delivered to
Mr. Warden, already a member.
Sumner left
Paris for
London, May 29, having remained nearly two months longer than he had intended before leaving home.
As he himself states, in his letters and Journal, he left much unseen, and regretted that he could not prolong his sojourn, particularly with the view of conversing with eminent French jurists.
He had, however, accomplished what he most desired, —he was able to speak the
French language, and through it to come into personal relations with educated Europeans of whatever country.