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contributions to science and philosophy will be better understood 

 and therefore more appreciated by future generations than they 

 are by most of us today, and whose greatest regret is that 

 physical disabilities and suffering prevented him from leaving 

 on record all the conclusions of his ripest thought. 



It is of Major Powell's service in organizing and directing 

 the work of others and inspiring them to their best endeavors 

 that, did time permit, I would speak on this occasion. There 

 are administrators who achieve a fair amount of success through 

 securing from the organization economical and efficient work 

 along prescribed lines. These are, properly speaking, execu- 

 tives. There are administrators of another kind, who possess 

 insight and creative ability, who have scientific imagination and 

 the power of initiative. Their conceptions are broad and clear ; 

 they are not only masterful in execution, but fertile in sugges- 

 tion and potent with the authorizing power. Among this class 

 Major Powell was eminent. 



These qualities were early discovered by General Grant, who 

 consigned to this young engineer and artillery officer important 

 military duties. Perhaps it was at Shiloh, around Vicksburg, 

 and in other battles and sieges that he learned the lesson of the 

 power of organized forces. Of his military life General David 

 B. Henderson will speak. 



POWELL AS A SOLDIER. 



Mr. Henderson said : 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : I have never preached 

 a funeral sermon, but I should like to preach one tonight. If I 

 could burn into human hearts something of the life and charac- 

 ter of J. W. Powell I would be happy. 



I am assigned to " Powell as a soldier," and I see from the 

 program that Professor Langley is assigned to "Powell as a 

 man." I felt rather hurt when I observed this arrangement. 

 How can I talk of J. W. Powell, the soldier, when I hate 

 soldiers? I have a supreme contempt for the soldier without 

 the man. Take away the soldier and you may have left a 

 philanthropist, a philosopher, a lover of his race ; but take away 

 the man from the soldier and you may have left a sort of pan- 



