134 MEMORIAL. OP JOSEPH HENRY. 



shams, and charlatanism, and all devices for cheap popularity, 

 whether in science or in other things. He was, moreover, a man 

 of calm, well considered and decided Christian faith. No seeming 

 conflict between the truths of science and those of religion ever 

 disturbed his well assured faith in both, — for he had a mind large 

 enough, and honest enough, to grasp the relation between them. 

 No one knew better than he whose life had been spent in seeking 

 to penetrate the secrets of the natural world, what were the i)owers, 

 and what were also the limitations of the human intellect; but 

 believing as he did, that truth in all its forms proceeded from its 

 one Great Author, he doubted not, that when fiiith is exchanged 

 for sight, it will be found in all its varied manifestations to be at 

 perfect unity with itself. 



