his earnest appeals to every noble sentiment, and started by him, not on the 

 cold, plodding study of books, but on the vivid, eager pursuit of the eternal 

 truth of God, of which the signs and quantities of mathematics are the sym- 

 bols. There are in other universities, as in our own, not so much trained as 

 inspired teachers, who owe it to him that they are not hearing schoolboy reci- 

 tations, but transmitting a living science. 



Among the various forms of his activity, emphatic mention should be made 

 of his several courses of lectures open to a larger public here and in Boston. 

 These have been unique ; and I doubt whether there has been any living man 

 who could have approached him in the union of close scientific reasoning, 

 bold and universe-sweeping speculation, poetic fancy, vivid ideality, and 

 profound religious faith and reverence. In these lectures he has shown, as 

 he always felt with adoring awe, that the mathematician enters as none else 

 can into the intimate thought of God, sees things precisely as they are seen 

 by the Infinite Mind, holds the scale and compasses with which the Eternal 

 Wisdom built the earth and meted out the heavens. 



Indeed, this consciousness has pervaded his whole scientific life. It was 

 active in his early youth, as his co-evals well remember; it has gathered 

 strength with his years ; it struck the ever recurring key-note in his latest 

 public utterances. He was a devout, God-fearing man, a Christian, in the 

 whole aim, tenor, and habit of his life. This, from early, I might almost 

 say native, feeling, and equally from faithful inquiry and established convic- 

 tion. He was conversant with the phases of scientific infidelity, and by no 

 means unfamiliar with the historic grounds of scepticism. Nor can I regard 

 it as without profound significance, that a mind second to none in keen intui- 

 tion, in aesthetic sensibility, in imaginative fervor, and in the capacity of close 

 and cogent reasoning, maintained through life an unshaken belief and trust 

 in the power, providence, and love of God, as beheld in his works, and as in- 

 carnate in our Lord and Saviour. 



There is no need that I speak here of his pure, upright, faithful life. In 

 this, as in his scientific genius, the youth was "father of the man." We who 

 were conversant with his boyhood have not the slightest remembrance of 

 aught that was not in beautiful harmony with what he has been in these later 

 years, when to know him has been to love, admire, and revere. 



He has gone from us, not too soon for him to enter on those larger, loftier 

 fields of vision, whose forecast glories shed a light not of earth on his ad- 

 vancing years, but, were it not that God knows best when to call his children 

 home, we should say, far too soon for us ; for, before the brief shadow fell 



