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220 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS
performance of them was greeted with criticism from the government
at home and complaints from the colonists in Georgia.
The criticisms just made apply only to the whole body of seventy-
one members. The self-sacrifice of the working members of the trust—
Oglethorpe, Vernon, Egmont, L'Apostre, Smith, Hales, Shaftesbury,
and a few others like them—cannot be too highly praised. To these few
may be applied the words used by a historian of Georgia in summing
up the work of the whole body: "At every stage of progress and in
every act, whether trivial or important, these trustees, capable and
worthy, evinced a clear conception of duty, a patience of labor, a sin
gleness of purpose, an unselfish dedication of time and energy, an integ
rity and a rigid adherence to all that was pure, elevated and human
izing, which become quite conspicuous when their proceedings are
minutely and intelligently scanned."*
* Jones, "History of Georgia." I: 443.