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"Again, in my own mind, I find ideas of right and wrong, 

 of good and evil. These ideas, then, exist in the universe, 

 and, therefore, form a basis of our ideas of a moral universe. 

 Furthermore, the conceptions of good which are found among 

 our ideas associated with evil, can be attributed only to a 

 Being of infinite perfections, like that which we denominate 

 ' God.' On the other hand, we are conscious of having such 

 evil thoughts and tendencies that we cannot associate our- 

 selves with a Divine Being, who is the Director and Governor 

 of all, or even call upon Him for mercy, without the interces- 

 sion of One who may affiliate himself with us." 



Notwithstanding his sacrifice of investigation to adminis- 

 tration, there is no greater name in American science. What 

 Franklin was to the last century, Henry is to this, and as the 

 years go by his fame is growing brighter. The memorial 

 service in his honor, held in 1878, in the hall of the United 

 States House of Representatives, was a national event. In 

 1883 his monument in bronze, by the greatest of American 

 sculptors, was erected by Congress in the Smithsonian Park. 

 The bestowal of his name upon the unit of induction in 1893 

 was an indication of his foreign appreciation, while, as a still 

 nobler tribute to his fame, his statue has been placed under 

 the great rotunda of the National Library, the science of the 

 world and of all time being symbolized by these two great 

 men, NEWTON and HENRY. 



