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lectual quality: his foresight ; for he knew well "the glo- 

 rious uncertainty of the law. 7 ' He was a builder, not a 

 gladiator. 



There resulted from these qualities an equanimity which 

 I have never seen equaled. AYlien his eldest son had been 

 elected to the highest office in the gift of the State Assem- 

 bly, and had been placed, evidently, on the way to the 

 governor's chair, afterward attained, though it must 

 have gratified such a father, lie never made any reference 

 to it in my hearing; and when the body of his favorite 

 grandson, a most winning and promising hoy, killed in- 

 stantly by a terrible accident, was brought into his pres- 

 ence, though his heart must have bled, his calmness seemed 

 almost superhuman. 



His religious ideas were such as many excellent people 

 would hardly approve. He had been born into the Society 

 of Friends; and their quietness, simplicity, freedom from 

 noisy activity, and devotion to the public good attached 

 him to them. But his was not a bigoted attachment; he 

 went freely to various churches, aiding them without dis- 

 tinction of sect, though finally he settled ; nto a steady at- 

 tendance at the Unitarian Church in Ithaca, for the pastor 

 of which he conceived a great respect and liking, lie was 

 never inclined to say much about religion; but, in our 

 talks, he was wont to quote with approval from Pope's 

 "Universal Prayer" and especially the lines: 



"Teach me to feel another's woe, 



To hide the fault I see; 

 The mcn-v I to others show, 

 That mercy show to me." 



On the mere letter of Scripture he dwelt little; and, 

 while he never obtruded opinions that might shock any 

 person, and was f;ir removed from scoffing or irreverence, 

 he did not hcHtato to discriminate between parts of our 

 Sacred Rooks which lie considered as simply legendary 

 and parts which were to him pregnant with eternal truth. 



