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Jiase. It was not the mere overflow of a kindly na- 

 ture, unschooled by that divine science which teach- 

 es benevolence as a duty. It was the virtue of one, 

 who, in his Eulogium upon his eminent friend Dr. 

 Wistar, fSee Jlpyendix, A>J who had filled the 

 chair of the Philosophical Society, thus made known 

 the foundation on which his benevolence was built. 

 ^^ Vain is the splendour of genius without the virtues 

 ^« of the heart. No man who is not good, deserves 

 ^^ the name of wise. In the language of Scripture, 

 "folly and wickedness are the same; not only be- 

 <^ cause vicious habits do really corrupt and darken 

 *^ the understanding, but because it is no small de- 

 ^'gree of folly to be ignorant, that the chief good of 

 <<man is to know the will of his creator, and to do 

 *^it.'^ 



But it was under the influence of this sentiment, 

 that his fortune became a refuge to the unfortunate, 

 far more extensively, than his unostentatious man- 

 ners imported. Notwithstanding the panoply which 

 protected him from the assaults of this world, lie 

 was like the feeblest of his race, naked and de- 

 fenceless against the dispensations of Heaven. By 

 the bereavements of death his bosom suffered many 

 and deep lacerations ; but they had the propitious 

 effect of opening his heart to mankind, instead of 

 withering and drying up its affections. He was gen- 

 tle, compassionate, charitable in many of the senses 

 that make charity the first of virtues; and long after 

 Lis leaves and branches were all torn away, tliere was 



