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of jurisprudence with broader foundations and ampler superstructure, 

 adapted to the unprecedented and ever-increasing growth of her mate- 

 rial interests, and, as it may be hoped, of her ever-advancing progress 

 in moral and intellectual civilization. And it is believed that she can 

 point to no one of her many illustrious sons whose intellectual power, 

 faithful service, and moral influence have done more for the honor and 

 perpetuity of her most cherished civil institutions. 



But the services of this great and good man were not confined to the 

 discharge of his official duties ; his comprehensive mind and heart em- 

 braced all fields in which he could serve his fellow-men ; his broad and 

 philosophical benevolence assisted in the management and dispensation 

 of many public charities ; his love of learning and appreciation of 

 the inestimable benefits of thorough science, and his profound wisdom, 

 aided in the government of many institutions for their cultivation. 

 He was for more than twenty years a member of the Corporation of 

 Harvard College, ever faithfully attentive to the laborious and often 

 minute duties of that station, and eax'nestly intent upon the promotion 

 of her highest interest and honorable fame. 



The moral nature of Chief Justice Shaw was on the same grand 

 scale with the intellectual. It was founded upon a firm will and cour- 

 ageous spirit, fitting him for enduring enterprise and resolute fulfilment 

 of his purpose. His perception of duty was elevated and controlling ; 

 his regard for truth stern and unyielding ; his sense of justice acute 

 and comprehensive, generous and benevolent ; and crowning all was a 

 warmth and sensitiveness of feeling often in seemingly strange contrast 

 with his otherwise massive character. He was singularly emotional ; 

 the utterance of a noble sentiment, the witnessing of a generous action, 

 the unexpected appeal to any of the exalted principles of our natui'e, 

 the suffering of a fellow-being, however humble, would suffuse his 

 eyes and cause his lips to quiver and his voice to tremble, alike on the 

 judgment seat and in the privacy of social intercourse. Had he lived 

 in earlier times it might well be believed that his demeanor upon the 

 bench had prompted the apothegm, " The sentence of condemnation is 

 best steeped in the judge's tears." Indeed, in witnessing his discharge 

 of this painful duty of his oflace upon the prisoner, it was often difl5cult 

 to believe that he was not at the time the greater sufferer of the two. 

 In private life our departed associate was an earnest, faithful friend, a 

 genial and most instructive companion. His resources in general infor- 

 mation upon the science, literatui'e, and humanities of the day, seemingly 



