xii PEEFACE. 



And, as oil when dropped on water 



Heaving witli internal motion 



Stills the unavailing tumult, 



May they still the voice of discord, 



Sooth the querulous and captious, 



Moderate the too conceited, 



Give him that great boon seKknowledge, 



And so clear his mental vision 



That he see another's merit, 



That he love, as friends, his fellow 



Students in the halls of Science : 



Then shall he who wrote thee bless thee ; 



Then wilt thou fulfil thy mission. 



Go and seek the openhearted, 

 Men of the unselfish spirit ; 

 Go, and if they bid thee welcome, 

 Tf like Spence they bid thee welcome, 

 If they musingly caress thee, 

 Listening to thy silent pleading. 

 If they find upon thy pages 

 Evidence of fellow^ feehug, 



