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in the finished paper, such only excepted as he gave his final
consent and approbation to exclude.

"In the most common and prevalent sense of the word among literary
men, this may not, perhaps, be called authorship; but in the
primary etymological sense--the quality of imparting growth or
increase--there can be no doubt that it is so. By derivation from
himself, the Farewell Address speaks the very mind of Washington.
The fundamental thoughts and principles were his; but he was not
the composer or writer of the paper.

"Hamilton was, in the prevalent literary sense, the composer and
writer of the paper. The occasional adoption of Washington's
language does not materially take from the justice of this
attribution. The new plan, the different form, proceeded from
Hamilton. He was the author of it. He put together the thoughts of
Washington in a new order, and with a new bearing; and while, as
often as he could, he used the words of Washington, his own
language was the general vehicle, both of his own thoughts, and for
the expansion and combination of Washington's thoughts. Hamilton
developed the thoughts of Washington, and corroborated
them--included several cognate subjects, and added many effective
thoughts from his own mind, and united all into one chain by the
links of his masculine logic.

"The main trunk was Washington's; the branches were stimulated by
Hamilton; and the foliage, which was not exuberant, was altogether
his: and he, more than Washington, pruned and nipped off, with
severe discrimination, whatever was excessive--that the tree might
bear the fruits which Washington desired, and become his full and
fit representative....

"We have explicit authority for regarding the whole Man as
compounded of BODY, SOUL, and SPIRIT. The Farewell Address, in a
lower and figurative sense, is likewise so compounded. If these
were divisible and distributable, we might, though not with full
and exact propriety, allot the SOUL to Washington, and the SPIRIT
to Hamilton. The elementary body is Washington's, also; but
Hamilton has developed and fashioned it, and he has symmetrically
formed and arranged the members, to give combined and appropriate
action to the whole. This would point to an allotment of the soul
and the elementary bo