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sary incongruity between what has been accomplished and 

 what remains to be done. The moral glow of Socrates, 

 which we all feel by ignition, has in it nothing incompati- 

 ble with the physics of Anaxagoras which he so much 

 "scorned, but which he would hardly scorn to-day. And 

 here I am reminded of one among us, hoary, but still 

 strong, whose prophet-voice some thirty years ago, far 

 more than any other of this age, unlocked whatever of 

 life and nobleness lay latent in its most gifted minds — 

 one fit to stand beside Socrates or the Maccabean Eleazar, 

 and to dare and suffer all that they suffered and dared — 

 fit, as he once said of Fichte, "to have been the teacher 

 of the Stoa, and to have discoursed of Beauty and Virtue 

 in the groves of Academe." With a capacity to grasp 

 physical principles which his friend Goethe did not pos- 

 sess, and which even total lack of exercise has not been 

 able to reduce to atrophy, it is the world's loss that he, 

 in the vigor of his years, did not open his mind and sym- 

 pathies to science, and make its conclusions a portion of 

 his message to mankind. Marvellously endowed as he 

 was — equally equipped on the side of the Heart and of 

 the Understanding — he might have done much toward 

 teaching us how to reconcile the claims of both, and to 

 enable them in coming times to dwell together, in unity 

 of spirit and in the bond of peace. 



And now the end is come. With more time, or 

 greater strength and knowledge, what has been here said 

 might have been better said, while worthy matters, here 

 omitted, might have received fit expression. But there 

 would have been no material deviation from the views 

 set forth. As regards myself, they are not the growth 



