or a clause which he secretly believed would be in- LITTLE 

 jurious, out of what is euphemistically called "party JOURNEYS 

 loyalty," or would have endeavored to bribe each sec- 

 tion of the electorate by ad captandum measures, or 

 would have hesitated to protect life and property for 

 fear of losing votes. What he saw right to do he would 

 have done, regardless of proximate consequences. 

 The ordinary tests of generosity are very defective. 

 As rightly measured, generosity is great in propor- 

 tion to the amount of self-denial entailed; and where 

 ample means are possessed, large gifts often entail no 

 self-denial. Far more self-denial may be involved in 

 the performance, on another's behalf, of some act 

 which requires time and labor. In addition to generos- 

 ity under its ordinary form, which Professor Tyndall 

 displayed in unusual degree, he displayed it under 

 a less common form & He was ready to take much 

 trouble to help friends. I have had personal experi- 

 ence of this. Though he had always in hand some in- 

 vestigation of great interest to him, and though, as I 

 have heard him say, when he bent his mind to a sub- 

 ject he could not with any facility break off and resume 

 it again, yet, when I have sought scientific aid, infor- 

 mation or critical opinion, I never found the slightest 

 reluctance to give me his undivided attention. Much 

 more markedly, however, was this kind of generosity 

 shown in another direction. Many men, while they are 

 eager for appreciation, manifest little or no apprecia- 

 tion of others, and still less go out of their way to ex- 

 press it. With Tyndall it was not thus ; he was eager 

 to recognize achievement. Notably in the case of Fara- 

 day, and less notably, though still conspicuously in 

 many cases, he has bestowed much labor and sacri- 

 ficed many weeks in setting forth the merits of others. 

 It was evidently a pleasure to him to dilate on the 

 claims of fellow- workers. 



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