CHARLES FRANKLIN DUNBAR. 569 



The mental activity which had stimulated bodily action beyond the usual 

 term of working years continued to find its expression, even after he had 

 become confined to the limits of his own home, in the manuscripts which 

 contain those products of liis mental laboratory impossible of record in 

 busier times ; as might be expected they give an insight into the motive 

 power of his life and show the strength of a character which looked for- 

 ward calmly to bodily dissolution as a part of the process of growth to 

 greater knowledge. 



Through the vicissitudes of incessant and protracted work, with the 

 usual meed of disappointment and much of physical pain, Mr. Blake held 

 always the cheerful courage born of a simple faith, which counted life as a 

 primary school and the suffering of his advanced years as a part of its 

 graduating exercises ; prominent in my memory of him are his fearless- 

 ness, his kindliness, his love of truth, and his earnest desire not to fail in 

 doing his part of the world's work, whatever that might honestly be, and 

 this also, that in fifty-seven years of a dear and close companionship, I 

 cannot recall a single unkind, unjust, or impatient word. 



Clarence John Blake. 



CHAKLES FRANKLIN DUNBAR. 



Charles Franklin Ddnbar, Fellow of the American Academy for 

 twenty-eight '•' years, Professor of Political Elconomy in Harvard Uni- 

 versity for nearly thirty years, was born at Abington, Massachusetts, 

 July 28, 1830, and died at Cambridge, Mass., January 29, 1900. 



Professor Dunbar's career divides itself into two very different parts ; 

 a first, during which he was editor and guiding spirit of the Boston Daily 

 Advertiser ; and a second, during which he lived the quiet life of the 

 teaclier and scholar. 



It was not until he had reached mature manhood that he entered on 

 his newspaper career. After graduating from Harvard College in 1851, 

 he engaged for a short time in business ; then, health failing, spent a 

 year in farming; then studied at the Harvard Law School and in the 

 office of the late Justice E. R. Hoar, and was admitted to the Bar in 

 1858. Meanwhile, contributions from his pen had appeared in the 

 Advertiser ; and finally, in 1859, he became permanently associated with 



* Elected January 31, 1872. 



