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which left him absolutely without guile, yet he was shrewd to 

 protect himself against the arts of the designing; he was severe 

 in his sense of honor without being censorious ; he was benevo- 

 lent yet inflexibly just ; quick in perception yet calm in judg- 

 ment and patient of labor ; tenacious of right without being con- 

 troversial ; benignant in \ni moral opinions yet never selling the 

 truth ; endowed with a strong imagination yet evermore making 

 it the handmaid of his reason; a prince among men yet without 

 the slightest alloy of arrogance in the fine gold of his imperial 

 intellect; in a word, good in all his greatness, he was, at the 

 same time, great in all his goodness. Such are the limitations 

 of human excellence in most of its mortal exhibitions that tran- 

 scendent powers of mind, or magnificent displays of virtue exerted 

 in a single direction, are often found to owe their " splendid enor- 

 mity" to what Isaac Taylor has called " the spoliation of some 

 spurned and forgotten qualities," which are sacrificed in the pui'- 

 suit of a predominant taste, or an overmastering ambition.* The 

 "infirmities of genius" often attest in their subjects the presence 

 of a mental or moral atrophy, which has hindered the full-orbed 

 development of one or more among their mental and moral 

 powers. But in Professor Henry no one quality of mind or heart 

 seemed to be in excess or deficiency as compared with the rest. 

 All were fused together into a compactness of structure and homo- 

 geneity of parts which gave to each the strength and grace im- 

 parted by an organic union. And hence, while he was great as 

 a philosopher he was greater as a man, for, laying as he did all 

 , the services of his scientific life on the altar of a pure, complete, 

 and dignified manhood, we must hold that the altar which sanc- 

 tified his gifts was greater than even the costliest offerings he laid 

 upon it. 



.It will not be expected that I should close this paper without 

 referring to the religious life and opinions of Prof. .Henry. If in 

 moral height and beauty he stood like the palm tree, tall, erect, 

 and symmetrical, it is because a deep religious faith was the 

 tap-root of his character. He was, on what he conceived to be 



* The phrase, as originally applied by Taylor, is descriptive of certain 

 incomplete ethical systems, but it is equally applicable to certain typical 

 exemplifii-ations of human charact^»r, in which "the strength and the 

 mateiials of si:; parts of morality have been brought together wherewith 

 to construct a seventh part." 



