198 MEMORIAL OF JOSEPH HENRY. 



College without being thoroughly drilled in the art of thinking as 

 applied to scientific problems, for then and there he was called to 

 indoctrinate his pupils in the rationale as well as in the results of 

 the inductive method. And I will venture to add that no intelli- 

 gent student of his at Princeton ever failed, in after life, to recognize 

 the useful place which hypothesis holds in labors directed to the 

 extension of science, or failed to discriminate between a working 

 hypothesis and a perfected theory. 



Pausing for a moment at this stage in the analysis of Professor 

 Henry's mental and moral traits, I cannot omit to portray the 

 effect produced on the observer by the happy combination under 

 which these traits were so grouped and confederated in his person 

 as to be mutual complements of each other. Far more significant 

 than any single quality of his mind, remarkable as some of his 

 qualities were, was the admirable equipoise which kept the forces 

 of his nature from all interference with the normal development 

 of an integral manhood. He was courtly in his manners, hut it 

 was a courtliness which sprang from courtesy of heart, and had 

 no trace of affectation or artificiality; he was fastidious in his 

 literary and artistic tastes, but he had none of that dilettantism 

 which is "fine by defect and delicately weak; 7 ' he was imbued 

 with a simplicity of heart which left him absolutely without 

 guile, yet he was shrewd to protect himself against the arts of 

 the designing; he was severe in his sense of honor without being 

 censorious; benevolent yet inflexibly just; quick in perception yet 

 calm in judgment and patient of labor; tenacious of right without 

 being controversial; benignant in his moral opinions yet never 

 selling the truth ; endowed with a strong imagination yet evermore 

 making it the handmaid of his reason ; a prince among men yet with- 

 out the slightest alloy of arrogance in the fine gold of his imperial 

 intellect; in a word, good in all. his greatness, he was, at the same 

 time, great in all his goodness. Such are the limitations of human 

 excellence in most of its mortal exhibitions that transcendent powers 

 of mind, or magnificent displays of virtue exerted in a single direc- 

 tion, are often found to owe their " splendid enormity " to what 

 Isaac Taylor has called "the spoliation of some spurned and 

 forgotten qualities," which are sacrificed in the pursuit of a predomi- 



