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years ; its character has always been of the highest, 

 and it must have exerted an excellent influence not 

 only as a diffuser of valuable knowledge, but in 

 training its readers to scientific habits of thought 

 in so far as mere reading can contribute to such a 

 result. 



In concluding our survey of this useful and 

 noble life, what impresses us most, I think, is the 

 broad democratic spirit and the absolute unselfish- 

 ness which it reveals at every moment and in 

 every act. To Edward Youmans the imperative 

 need for educating the great mass of the people 

 so as to use their mental powers to the best advan- 

 tage came home as a living, ever present fact. He 

 saw all that it meant and means in the raising of 

 mankind to a higher level of thought and action 

 than that upon which they now live. To this end 

 he consecrated himself with unalloyed devotion ; 

 and we who mourn his loss look back upon his 

 noble career with a sense of victory, knowing how 

 the good that such a man does lives after him and 

 can never die. 



March, 1890. 



