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and less Greek " and no Hebrew. I think his onward spirit meant 

 to hve always, and in some tranquil time-to-be, he was going to 

 acquire these useful aids to his mastery of Biblical research. 



He had, early, a distinct talent for drawing with characteristic 

 preciseness and he produced a medal or two and carved an intaglio 

 which showed fidelity to line rather than breadth of view ; and he 

 later wrote verse with facility and sentiment. But he had, as 

 Franklin had, and all men of his frugal stamp, but little taste in 

 aesthetics, saving when they applied to the bolder treatment of nature 

 in landscape gardening, or rather to the good sense of leaving 

 natural landscape as near its own forms as is consistent with human 

 comfort. He had but limited ear for music, although he would sing 

 with hearty exuberance; but he had amazing wit and humor and 

 some of his droll stories or poems are enduringly funny. 



Such, briefly, was Joseph Wharton. His life was one of phys- 

 ical and mental action, and such lives make lasting biographies. 

 Only one of his versatile characteristics has been dwelt on here, and 

 the record in mere outline has already overpassed the limit. As 

 he stood, a manly figure, at the threshold of our new business and 

 intellectual life, as he was a leading figure in the formation of the 

 new navy which so easily dispatched Spain, as he invented new 

 avenues of manufacture and a form of education not before tried, 

 as he helped to cast the shield of protection over industries unde- 

 veloped by reason of too little self-respect — he is a man marked out 

 as an example and a guide for oncoming men, and the record of his 

 many useful years should one day be made to endure in the pages 

 of a fitting biography. 



Harrison S. Morris. 



