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physical research are numerous and delicate; but useless unless the 

 senses are educated to them.- The literature of science is volumin- 

 ous and in many languages. Success in scientific investigations 

 demands now original thought, disciplined senses, scientific culture, 

 and a well-chosen field, where the discoveries of other men will not 

 be repeated. Both Franklin and Henry burned brightly in their 

 allotted spheres, and in the future may diifer only as one star differs 

 from another star in glory. 



The funeral services on May 16, 1878, proclaimed to the world 

 that the republic had lost an illustrious citizen. There was no 

 hollow pageant of empty carriages of state, but the highest and 

 best in the land felt a personal bereavement. A patriotic and 

 devoted servant of the Government was dead; a bright light in 

 science had gone out; a noble man, born to attract and to sway, in 

 whom science was illuminated by faith, and faith was enlightened by 

 science, lived on earth no longer except by his example; a long life, 

 crowded with beneficent services to truth and to man, was closed. 

 Not less, affecting were the memorial exercises of January 16, 1879, 

 in the hall of the House of Kepresentatives, before the assembled 

 wisdom and grandeur of the nation. Science may be proud of this 

 spontaneous tribute to her favored child, if she only remembers 

 that it is character which makes intellect a blessing and not a scourge 

 to mankind, and awakens genuine sympathy and admiration. Mr. 

 Henry was not the favorite and ornament of a court, but the peei- 

 of the greatest and wisest in a free republic. The monument of 

 Humboldt was not thought to be worthy of a jflace in sight of the 

 king's palace in Berlin. That was a spot consecrated to princes 

 of the blood and military heroes. Will any American think that 

 any ground in this country is too sacred to contain a monument to 

 Henry? 



