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once which brought him to death, that, as ex-governor Gilbert once said most eloquently, is even more heroic! That a slight, shrinking figure, bearing the heaviest burdens, is doing this in our midst every day is the reason why the name Cayetano Arellano is written here, a name which stands spotless today before the Filipino people, as it has stood for years. Rising from humble boyhood by fidelity and integrity he has, in Sto. Tomas, where he received various degrees, in his professorship there as "supleinte" of the supreme court, as member of the state council under the Spanish regime, as administrator of Obras Pias, always answered to the illustrious ideals of scholar and gentleman that adorn many places in our East, but nowhere more luminously t~n in the chair occupied by the chief justice of the Philippines, which position he honors now, proving to his countrymen l for all time, that one of their number-and if one then many-may have the beauty of character and loftiness of intellect which is the gift of God to his chosen sons, be they Malays, or Chinese; of England or Bombay; be they born where the ardent sun first lights the race or finishes its tired course.