10 PROFESSOR HENRY AND THE 



plored regions of nature's secrets; and like the 

 great king of Israel, after the brunt of the battle 

 was over, he came to be leader of the hosts, who 

 once had been tending only a "few sheep in the 

 wilderness." 



Let us contemplate for a moment the intellectual 

 stature of our departed teacher, considered merely 

 as an investigator of natural laws, and measured by 

 the standard established by the intellectual world. 



It is in the order of nature that the intermittent 

 progress of humanity is made under the guidance 

 of gifted men, appearing from time to time, who 

 push forward the outposts of truth, whether in 

 morals or physics, calling upon their fellow-men 

 to hasten and occupy the newly-conquered fields. 

 The names of such men are few, and are writ- 

 ten upon the rolls of fame. Their glory be- 

 longs to no nation, but to all mankind. Some- 

 times simultaneously and in different parts of the 

 world two such appear, who seem to have 

 been cast in similar moulds, lest perchance one 

 might die or fail, and progress stand still. Such 

 men were Henry and Faraday, whose intellects 

 were moulded with the same capacities, and who 

 worked out their tasks in the same spirit. If 

 either one had died before his work was done, the 

 other was capable of doing it ; and, in fact, both 

 in many cases struck out the truth, each uncon- 



