ADDRESS OF HON. 8. 8. COX. 115 



When the first telegraph message went from this capital on the 

 24th of May, 1844, "What hath God wrought," it but echoed the 

 thought of this reverent thinker, who had discovered its mission, 

 and who thus recognized the infinite intelligence whose processes 

 were beyond human ken. This belief chastened his intellectual 

 dignity, and while it gave him added courage to explore the secrets 

 of time and space, made his science not that of the carping critic, 

 but of the loving handmaiden of divinity. 



If "we are of a nobler substance than the stars;" if "we have 

 faculties while they have none," it is impossible, in thinking of 

 Joseph Henry and his life here, to unduly magnify that intel- 

 lectual orb which, when it left our limited horizon, arose upon 

 another world to glorify anew the God of all the graces and the 

 fountain of all the forces I 



