LITTLE hardly a student at Harvard during those years but 

 JOURNEYS acknowledged the personal help he received at the 

 hands of John Fiske. Knowledge consists in having an 

 assistant librarian who knows where to find the thing. 

 Q Fiske's thirty-five lectures had evolved into that ex- 

 cellent book "Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy." The 

 public were buying it. 



Evolution was fast taking its place as a fixed fact. And 

 John Fiske was moving into public favor on the flood 

 tide. There were demands for his lectures from vari- 

 ous schools, colleges and lyceums, throughout the 

 United States. 



He resigned his position so as to give all his time to 

 writing and speaking. And Harvard, proud of her 

 gifted son, elected him an overseer of the University, 

 which position he held until his death. John Fiske 

 died in 1901, suddenly, aged fifty-nine. 



;MERSON says, "Next to the originator of 

 a great thought is the man who quotes it." 

 Next to the discoverer of a great scien- 

 tific truth is the man who recognizes and 

 upholds it. 



The service done science by John Fiske 

 is beyond calculation. Fiske was not a Columbus upon 

 the sea of science he followed the course laid out by 

 others, and was really never out of sight of a buoy. 

 He comes as near being a great scientist, perhaps, as 

 any man that America has ever produced. 

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