CYRIL GEORGE HOPKINS 



together because of their subtle influence, an impression 

 formed in part from his studies in pharmacy, but mainly con- 

 stitutional. 



His abiding sense of service shut out all possibility of 

 selfishness, even if it could have found lodgment in his nature, 

 which I very much doubt. He was so intent upon accom- 

 plishing what he had undertaken, and working while it was 

 yet day, that he utterly forgot himself. Indeed, here lay his 

 one great fault as we could see it, and it was a grievous one 

 he never spared himself. Of robust constitution and of al- 

 most superhuman vigor and endurance, he labored continu- 

 ally, against the better judgment and the earnest solicitation 

 of those of us who knew that every man has his limits. Day 

 in and day out, month after month, and year after year he 

 labored and dreamed for a better agriculture, and for one that 

 should build up instead of exhaust the soil upon which races 

 and nations are dependent for that comfortable existence that 

 permits of progress. 



He had a keen sense of humor and it stood him in excel- 

 lent stead, for he was never angry, nor was he ever gloomy 

 even when working upon his most difficult problems in the 

 face of opposition. He was of the stuff of which martyrs are 

 made, and in the end he was a martyr as truly as any other 

 that gave his life for a cause or for the good that he could do. 



HONESTY 



Next to the spirit of service and his ideals of the respon- 

 sibilities of life, Doctor Hopkins' most distinguishing charac- 

 teristic seemed to be honesty. Not that ordinary honesty 

 which distinguishes between mine and thine in matters ma- 

 terial, but that deeper reverence for truth that refuses to de- 

 ceive either others or itself by things which are not what they 

 seem. 



He talked much about "absolute truth," as if there could 

 be any other kind. What he meant was to get at the real bot- 



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