148 MEMORIAL SKETCH. 



another pen, that of a cultivated Norwegian scholar, the 

 friend of one of his sons. 



Well do I remember the kindness he showed me, the 

 obscure stranger, when I was privileged to be together with 

 him, his noble face, his eager instructive talk, more interesting 

 than any I ever listened to, the genial sympathy and light in 

 which he moved as in his atmosphere. You felt him imme 

 diately to be not only a great but a good man. I like to think 

 of him as I remember him one night at Christmas in his house, 

 with his sons assembled round him in the library, your mother 

 at his side, giving out a hymn at the organ, his fine face 

 upturned in beaming gratitude towards his Eternal Maker. 



Genuineness, reality, in thought, feeling, and conduct, 

 these were the things which he asked from those around 

 him ; these were the standards of worth for which he 

 cared. 



When I preached a sermon in reference to Mr. Darwin 

 (reported his friend, Dr. Sadler, shortly after his death), Dr. 

 Carpenter came to me afterwards with tears in his eyes, and 

 told me of what had been said to him by a leading scientific 

 friend, to the effect that great as Mr. Darwin was as a scientific 

 discoverer, he was still greater as a man. And he spoke as if 

 he felt this testimony to character to be not only true, but also 

 more to be desired than any testimony to intellectual ability 

 could be. I think what was said is no less true of himself than 

 it was of Mr. Darwin. The work of his life was great for its 

 quality and for its extent ; but pervading it all one sees the 

 man of highest moral principle, and of a deeply religious 

 nature. 



In the spring of 1885, Dr. Carpenter s strength, which 

 had for some time been impaired, especially by repeated 

 attacks of rheumatism, seemed suddenly to give way. I 7 or 

 many weeks he remained in a condition of physical and 

 mental torpor which made his family apprehend the possi 

 bility of some obscure brain-disease. Change of air and 



