JOHN WESLEY POWELL. 75 



an organiser, and it is his spirit even to-day after he has passed 

 away that pervades the institutions which with him and partly 

 through him were called into existence. Yet while he was a born 

 leader, he was never domineering but always amiable and consider- 

 ate. He appeared to the younger generation that grew up under 

 the influence of his powerful personality, not as their teacher or 

 master, but their senior friend, and they in their turn learned to 

 look up to him with love and confidence as to a father or elder 

 brother. 



