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Professor Tyndall's example, and Columbia, from her 

 share of the Tyndall fund, I am told, now supports 

 two foreign scholarships for the benefit of students 

 who show a special aptitude in scientific research. 

 Professor James of Harvard once said, "The impetus 

 to popular scientific study caused by Professor Tyn- 

 dall's lectures in the United States was most helpful 

 and fortunate. Speaking but for myself, I know I am a 

 different man and a better man, for having heard and 

 known John Tyndall." 



HEN Tyndall died, in 1893, Herbert Spen- 

 cer wrote this : 



It never occurred to Tyndall to ask what 

 it was politic to say, but simply to ask 

 what was true. The like has of late years 

 been shown in his utterances concerning 

 politicafmatters shown, it may be, with too great 

 frankness. This extreme frankness was displayed also 

 in private, and sometimes, perhaps, too much dis- 

 played; but every one must have the defects of his 

 qualities. Where absolute sincerity exists, it is certain 

 now and then to cause an expression of a feeling or 

 opinion not adequately restrained. But the contrast in 

 genuineness between him and the average citizen was 

 very conspicuous. In a community of Tyndalls (to 

 make a wild supposition) there would be none of that 

 flabbiness characterizing current thought and action 

 no throwing overboard of principles elaborated by 

 painful experience in the past, and adoption of a hand- 

 to-mouth policy unguided by any principle. He was 

 not the kind of a man who would have voted for a bill 

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