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star-fish for you or classifying fishes — though he 

 would have a full sense of your ardent longing for 

 an inner trust in life and a philosophy of life. Both 

 elements might change considerably in the pupil : 

 the method of investigation without — the ideal of 

 the comprehensive vision within. But what never 

 left any man who had followed Miiller was the 

 warning cry that these things, within and without, 

 should go together ; that, in the larger sense, it is 

 not possible to count the joints in the stalk of an 

 encrinite without feeling a thrill in the deepest 

 depth of the mind and the heart. 



It is so common a spectacle in history for dis- 

 ciples to condemn their masters with cold smiles 

 that we forget how pitiful it is. No pupil of 

 Johannes Miiller has ever felt that he had done 

 with him, and might quit him with ingratitude. 

 He had pupils, it is true, who did not lack belief 

 in themselves, and who became famous enough to 

 give them a sense of power ; men who have even- 

 tually come to conclusions diametrically opposed to 

 those that Miiller had taught them. Yet they re- 

 spect him. Living witnesses still tell of the glance 

 that bored into you, and could not be evaded. 

 But there must have been a greater power in the 

 man than this piercing glance. It was a glance 

 that survived the grave, and laid on one a duty ; 

 a glance that shot up in the darkness of memory 

 if the duty was not fulfilled — the duty of going to 

 the foundation of things. Whether you are exam- 

 ining the larva of an echinoderm or the light of a 

 distant star, God is there. Whether you explain 



