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doctrine Carlyle may have been at times in error ; but the principle 

 itself is that on which the order of the world is dependent. 



Carlyle judged the prevailing tendencies of modern society severely. 

 He saw earlier and more clearly than any other writer of influence 

 the inherent dangers of absolute democracy, and the weakness of the 

 pure democratic system if adopted as the ultimate form of human 

 society. He had no belief in the extension of the doctrine of 

 the rights of man till it becomes subversive of the distinc- 

 tions between good and bad, intelligent and ignorant. He had no 

 symjjathy with the modern optimistic temper, which believes some 

 vague entity called " the penple " to be possessed by nature of all 

 virtue. 



The great debt of the past generation, and of our own, to Mr. 

 Carlyle is not so much for any specific piece of work as for the 

 general influence of his life and writings in promoting the spirit of 

 intellectual independence and integrity. In this respect his influence 

 has been powerful, and is likely to be permanent. 



His feeling to this country, which he had given us at times some 

 reason to question, has been shown in his bequest, with words of 

 memorable significance, of a portion of his books to the library of 

 Harvard College. 



The Academy feels its own lustre diminished by the striking oflE of 

 60 illustrious a name from its rolls. 



WILLIAM HALLOWES MILLER. 



"William Hallo^ves Miller, who was elected Foreign Honorary 

 Member of this Academy in the place of C. F. Naumann, May 26, 

 1874, died at his residence in Cambridge, England, on the 20th of 

 May, 1880, at the age of seventy-nine, having been born at Yeliudre in 

 Wales, April 6, 1801. His life was singularly uneventful even for a 

 scholar. Graduating with mathematical Ivonors at Cambridge in 1826, 

 he became. a fellow of his college (St. John's) in 1829, and was elected 

 Professor of Mineralogy in the University in 1832. Amidst the calm 

 and elegant associations of this ancient English university, Miller 

 passed a long and tranquil life, — crowded with useful labors, honored 

 by the respect and love of his associates, and blessed by congenial 

 family ties. This quiet student life was exactly suited to his nature, 

 which shunned the bustle and unrest of our modern worhl. For 

 relaxation even lie loved to seek the retired valleys of the Eastern 



