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was blazing there, and his large head, reflected against 

 the curtain, was seen bending over his task. If sickness 

 or a journey roused me before dawn of a Winter morning, 

 I would see that light already kindled and that same head 

 again bending at the desk. I used to wonder when he 

 slept or if he ever slept at all. Nor was he less strong in 

 his mental and moral traits. He was stalwart in his pur- 

 poses, in his friendships, his faith, his usefulness to men, 

 his worship to God. Brave and unselfish, exceptionally 

 modest and unpretentious, he was devoted to the loftiest 

 ideals of scientific culture — a scientific culture, however, 

 always subordinate to Christian manhood — never an end in 

 itself, but only a means for enlarging human virtue and 

 glorifying our Maker. Charitable to the faults of others, 

 catholic in ideas, he allowed no narrow conceptions of 

 science, though its utilities were his constant and favorite 

 theme, to close his eyes to the importance of metaphysical 

 investigations or the problems of moral philosophy. His 

 mind was evenly and admirably balanced. He believed 

 in a complete education, in the symmetrical training and 

 informing of all the faculties as the essential preparation 

 for special lines of research. His interest in young men 

 was unbounded. He loved to dwell upon their promise 

 and forecast their future. Who could surpass him as a 

 patient listener or a considerate sympathizer? How re- 

 sponsive he was to the hopes and plans of others ! how 

 ready to aid them as if his own ! I have heard his 

 disinterestedness impeached by the captious insinuation 

 that he always had some axe to grind. Well, his axes 

 were of such finely tempered steel and designed to cut 

 down such thickets of ignorance and error that most of 

 us were contented to turn grindstone, and bid Godspeed 

 to his axes. Nor was he lacking in reciprocity. He 

 would take off his coat and turn your grindstone, too, 

 with a royal will and to excellent purpose. His principle 



