Over the _grave_ a monument was erected, the cost of which was defrayed, as the inscription states, "By means of penny subscriptions, not only from the Christian Brotherhood with whom John Pounds habitually worshipped in the adjoining chapel, but from persons of widely differing religious opinions throughout Great Britain, and from the most distant parts of the world." Another memento took the form of a library for the use of the poor people of the neighborhood in which the philanthropic shoemaker lived and labored. A Ragged School has also been built which bears his name, and in which the good work he inaugurated in Plymouth is now carried on. In 1879 the "John Pounds Coffee Tavern" was opened. Happy are they who can say with Lord Shaftesbury, in the closing words of his speech at the opening of this institution-- "I AM A DISCIPLE OF JOHN POUNDS." CHAPTER IX. [Illustration: THOMAS COOPER] Thomas Cooper, "THE SELF-EDUCATED SHOEMAKER" WHO "REARED HIS OWN MONUMENT."[58] "I consuming fire Felt daily in my veins to see my race Emerge from out the foul defiling mire Of animal enjoyments that debase Their nature, and well-nigh its lineaments efface. I burned to see my species proudly count Themselves for more than brutes; and toiled to draw Them on to drink at Virtue's living fount, Whence purest pleasures flow.... Canst thou blame My course? I tell thee, thirst for human laud Impelled me not: 'twas my sole-thoughted aim To render Man, my brother, worthy his high name!" --_Empedocles, in "The Purgatory of Suicides," Stanzas_ 35-37. "Few shrewder, kindlier men have fought the battle of life."--_London Quarterly Review._ "He is a man of vast reading, and indomitable courage. His Autobiography is a remarkable book, well worth reading."--_Editor of "Charles Kingsley's Life and Letters_." [58] See closing sentences of preface to "Purgatory of Suicides," by Thomas Cooper, early editions. THOMAS COOPER.