306 SIK WILLIAM RAMSAY 



We look back over the centuries and among the 

 founders and master builders of their science we see 

 the outstanding figures of Boyle and Black, Lavoisier, 

 Priestley and Scheele, Cavendish, Davy, and Berzelius, 

 with a few more. The stream of time bears along to 

 oblivion the vast majority of the sons of men, and though 

 in this age of scientific activity there is an ever-increasing 

 army of workers, most of them are engaged in supplying 

 merely the bricks of which the edifice of scientific know- 

 ledge is built. They have their reward in their own day 

 and generation. The name of William Ramsay will 

 always stand among those of the Master Builders. 



HE hath shewed thee, O man, what is good ; and what 

 doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to 

 love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God. 



