114 MEMORIAL OF JOSEPH HENRY. 



tlie uniform laws. Finding everywhere evidences of intellectual 

 arrangements as he found them in the operations of man, he inferred 

 that these two classes of phenomena were the results of similar 

 intelligence. He found within himself ideas of right and wrong, 

 and deduced and believed that they formed the basis of our ideas 

 of the moral universe. In other words, he believed in a Divine 

 Being as the director and governor of all, and lived as he died, 

 hoping and praying for his infinite mercy. 



Aloof from the lights and shadows of hope and fear, what unim- 

 aginal and "wondrous glory beyond all glory ever seen" is his 

 to-day ! Flowers and fishes, ruins and rivers, skeletons and scoriae, 

 all the forms of things and forces of nature; the motions of wind, 

 tide, and water; the elasticity of steam and the explosions of 

 electricity, which were here in unrest, seeking immobility by laws 

 of their own — all these mobile elements, which he demonstrated 

 were seeking repose even in slag or cinders and seeking it by celes- 

 tial motions and forces — these are all one to him now ! The corre- 

 lation of forces and the conservation of energy are solved. The 

 principle of chemistry and vitality, of the moving atom and the 

 immortal mind, no longer vex him with their mystery. His soul, 

 which was never tried on earth by the crucible, and his religion, 

 which was never limited to the laboratory — whose relict radiance 

 it is ours to recall — has that rest which he observed to be the final 

 law of all animate nature here. 



He believed with Oersted that the practice of science was 

 religious worship; and like that Danish physicist — like Faraday 

 and Boyle — "sweetness and light were blended in his pure 

 nature." With unblemished eye, like the eagle, his scientific ken 

 gazed into the sun itself for its revelation; and yet he nestled, 

 dove-like, amidst his human domestic affections. His processes of 

 thought were chastened by his Christ-like life and heavenly faith ; 

 and he has his reward in eternal bliss. 



