36 PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. 
the oncoming of sleep, the approach of the fatal shears will be as gener- 
ally welcomed as it is now abhorred. Such a day is still distant; we 
can hardly say that its dawning is visible. Let us at least hope that, 
in the manner depicted by Diirer in his well-known etching, the sun- 
shine which science irradiates may eventually put to flight the melan- 
choly which hovers, bat-like, over the termination of our lives, and 
which even the anticipation of a future happier existence has not 
hitherto succeeded in dispersing. 
