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much for man and his advancement, and when talking 

 of their situation would often repeat the lines of Bayard 

 Taylor, which seem to have been favorites with him. 



The healing of the world 

 Is in its nameless Saints. Each separate star 

 Seems nothing, but a myriad separate stars 

 Break up the night and make it beautiful. 



He was very much interested in the views of Prince 

 Kropotkin, especially hi his articles on "Mutual Aid" 

 which appeared in the "Nineteenth Century." In these 

 articles the Prince brought out the fact that the great 

 principle of mutual aid gave the best chance for the 

 survival of those who best support each other in the 

 struggle for life. He began with the lower animals and 

 traced it through savagery, barbarism, and every stage 

 of civilization. The wealth of illustration and the tri- 

 umphant march of the argument cleared up some vexed 

 questions in GoodelFs mind and strengthened his opti- 

 mistic views by showing that the realization of the golden 

 rule was a part of Nature's plan. 



His sympathies were not of a sentimental nature. There 

 was hardly a movement for social betterment in his time 

 in which he was not interested. But what he did was usu- 

 ally done quietly, with the hope to secure a better under- 

 standing of the case. His ideas of woman as wife and mother 

 have been made sufficiently evident, but he did not con- 

 fine her activities to those important functions and was 

 desirous to illustrate her contributions to civilization in 

 another direction. For this purpose he gathered materials 

 for a paper on "Woman as an Inventor," but failing health 

 compelled him to abandon the project for the time being. 



