LIFE OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA 



Finally, in October, 1890, he was obliged to relinquish 

 all his college duties. Nevertheless, his perceptions re- 

 mained as clear, his memory was as good, and his power 

 of statement was as exact as ever. Up to a day or two 

 before his death, as elsewhere stated, his mind and body 

 retained their usual activity. His career is a wonderful 

 story of endurance and self-control, an example, rarely 

 paralleled, of the power of the will to resist the infirmities 

 of the body. 



