70 Edward Livingston Youmans. 



stances, if a man of eager energy and boundless intel- 

 lectual craving were to be overwhelmed with de- 

 spondency, we could not call it strange. If he were 

 to become dependent upon friends for the means of 

 support, it would be ungracious, if not unjust, to blame 

 him. But Edward Youmans was not made of the 

 stuff that acquiesces in defeat. He rose superior to 

 calamity ; he won the means of livelihood, and in dark- 

 ness entered upon the path to an enviable fame ; or, 

 as he would doubtless prefer to have it said, he made 

 for himself an opportunity to be helpful to his fellow- 

 men. 



