24 PROFESSOR HENRY AND THE 



strength; on the one side outrun in the race where 

 he had ever been in the lead; and on the other so 

 hampered and crippled as to be unable to accom- 

 plish the great objects for which alone he was 

 about to abandon his first love. That high sense 

 of duty which governed him in every act of his 

 life decided the question, notwithstanding his firm 

 conviction that in accepting the trust he left the 

 happiest days of his life in the past. 



Perhaps he might have decided otherwise if 

 Princeton College had been then as it is now. Per- 

 haps he then might have felt, that with such 

 ample resources at his command as are now to 

 be found here, his services to humanity might 

 be greater as a soldier in the ranks than as a 

 commander in the field. But at that time no one 

 had arisen among the friends of this institution 

 who, like the Medici of the fifteenth century, was 

 able at the same time to gather the wealth of the 

 world by the arts of honorable commerce, and to 

 appreciate that the gathered wealth of the world 

 owes its existence and preservation to science, to 

 art, and to literature ; and that therefore it is due 

 to education that it should be encouraged by 

 noble gifts, such as have enlarged the ca- 

 pacity of the College of New Jersey, and re- 

 flected honor upon the names of those whose gen- 

 erous hearts, guided by wisdom, have led them to 

 broaden these ancient foundations, and to arm 



