8 Memorial of George Broivn Goode. 



him. He lived not for himself, but for others and for his work. There 

 was no occasion when he could not find time for any call to aid, and the 

 Museum was something to which he was willing to give of liis own 

 slender means. 



Connected with this was an absence of any wish to personally domi- 

 nate others or to force his own personal ways upon them. It is pleas- 

 antest to live our own hfe if we can, and with him every associate and 

 subordinate had a moral hberty that is not always enjoyed, for apart from 

 his official duties, he obtruded himself upon no one with ad\nce, and his 

 private opinion was to be sought, not proffered. 



His insight into character was notable, and it was perhaps due as 

 much as auythmg to a power of sympathy that produced a gentleness in 

 his private judgment of others, which reminded one of the saying, that if 

 we could comprehend everything we could pardon everything. He com- 

 prehended and he pardoned. 



Associate this tolerance of those weaknesses in others, even which he 

 did not share, with the confidence he inspired and with this clear insight, 

 and we have some idea of the moral qualities which tempered the 

 authority he exercised in his administrative work, and which were the 

 underlying causes of his administrative excellence. I do not know 

 whether a power of reading character is more intuitive or acquired ; at 

 any rate without it men may be governed, but not in harmony, and must 

 be driven rather than led. Doctor Goode was in this sense a leader, 

 quite apart from his scientific competence. Every member of the force 

 he controlled, not only among his scientific associates, but down to the 

 humblest employees of the Museum, was an individual to him, with 

 traits of character which were his own and not another's, and which were 

 recognized in all deahngs. And in this I think he was peculiar, for I 

 have known no man who seemed to possess this sympathetic insight in 

 such a degree; and certainly it was one of the sources of his strength. 



I shall have given, however, a wrong idea of him if I leave anyone 

 under the impression that this sympathy led to weakness of rule. He 

 knew how to say "no," and said it as often as any other, and would 

 reprehend where occasion called, in terms the plainest and most uncom- 

 promising a man could use, speaking so when he thought it necessary, 

 even to those whose association was voluntary, but who somehow were 

 not alienated, as they would have been by such censure from another. 

 "He often refused me what I most wanted," said one of his staff to me, 

 ' ' but I never went to sleep without having in my own mind forgiven him. ' ' 



I have spoken of some of the moral qualities which made all rely upon 

 him, and which were the foundation of his ability to deal with men. To 

 them was joined that scientific knowledge without which he could not 

 have been a Museum administrator, but even with this knowledge he 

 could not have been what he was, except from the fact that he loved the 

 Museum and its administration above every other pursuit, even, I think, 



