his mind to be dulled or his ardor for study to be dissipated by 

 the variety of his professional labors or his continual change of 

 place, but who, by the attentive observation of the course of the 

 winds, the climate, trie currents of the seas and oceans, acquired 

 those materials for knowledge which, afterwards, in Washington, 

 he systematized in charts and in a book, charts which are now 

 in the hands of all seamen and a book which has carried the fame 

 of its author into the most distant countries of the earth. Nor is 

 he merely a high authority in Nautical Science. He is also a pat- 

 tern of noble manners and good morals, because in the guidance 

 of his own life he has always shown himself a brave and good 

 man. When that cruel civil war in America was imminent, this 

 man did not hesitate to leave home and friends, a place of honor 

 and an office singularly adapted to his genius to throw away, in a 

 word, all the goods and gifts of Fortune that he might defend 

 and sustain the cause that seemed to him the just one. 



" 'The victorious cause pleased the gods,' and now, perhaps, 

 as victorious causes will do, it pleases the majority of men; and 

 yet, no one can withhold his admiration from the man who, 

 though numbered among the vanquished, held his faith pure and 

 unblemished, even at the price of poverty and exile." 



In that day's work, typical of England's ever-advancing civ- 

 ilization, Cambridge honored herself in honoring a man, the ex- 

 ponent of high character and of world-wide service. But we may 

 not linger there, even to enjoy with the Maurys the Strawberry 

 Festival in the garden of Britain's Astronomer- Royal, John Couch 



Adams, co-discoverer, with Le Verrier, of the Planet Neptune. 

 ***###****** 



This sketch must be brief, but a logical discussion of Maury's 

 career necessarily includes some account of his ancestors and in- 

 cidental reference to his own early environment his home, his 

 pursuits, his education. 



Reviewing the history of all nations, ever and again the pages 

 are found blurred by the cruelties of political and religious perse- 

 cution. Thus it was for centuries in France : there was no es- 

 cape for the Huguenots from torture and death, after the Revoca- 

 tion of the Edict of Nantes, except to abjure their faith or to seek 

 refuge in foreign lands. Many of the most intelligent, industri- 



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