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he was suffering from wretclied health, 

 which he concealed so successfully while 

 devoting himself to my help, that I had no 

 suspicion till long after of the effort this 

 must have cost him. He lived not for him- 

 self, but for others and for his work. There 

 was no occasion when he could not find 

 time for any call to aid, and the Museum 

 was something to which he was willing to 

 give of his own slender means. 



Connected with this was an absence of 

 any wish to personally dominate others or 

 to force his own personal ways upon them. 

 It is pleasantest to live our own life if we 

 can, and with him every associate and sub- 

 ordinate had a moral liberty that is not 

 always enjoyed, for apart from his official 

 duties he obtruded himself upon no one with 

 advice, and his private opinion was to be 

 sought, not proffered. 



His insight into character was notable, 

 and it was perhaps due as much as any- 

 thing to a power of sympathy that pro- 

 duced a gentleness in his private judgment 

 of others which reminded one of the saying 

 that if we could comprehend everything 

 we could pardon everything. He compre- 

 hended and he pardoned. 



Associate this tolerance of those weak- 

 nesses in others, even which he did not share, 

 with the confidence he inspired and with 

 this clear insight, and we have some idea of 

 the moral qualities which tempered the 

 authority he exercised in his administra- 

 tive work, and which were the underlying 

 causes of his administrative excellence. 

 I do not know whether a power of read- 

 ing character is more intuitive or ac- 

 quired ; at any rate without it men may 

 be governed, but not in harmony, and must 

 be driven rather than led. Dr. Goode was 

 in this sense a leader quite apart from his 

 scientific competence. Every member of the 

 force he controlled, not only among his 

 scientific associates, but down to the hum- 

 blest employees of the Museum, was an in- 



dividual to him, with traits of character 

 which were his own and not another's, 

 and which were recognized in all dealings, 

 and in this I think he was peculiar, for I 

 have known no man who seemed to possess 

 this sympathetic insight in such a degree ; 

 and certainly it was one of the sources of 

 his strength. 



I shall have given, however, a wrong 

 idea of him if I leave any one under the 

 impression that this sympathy led to weak- 

 ness of rule. He knew how to say ' no,' 

 and said it as often as any other, and would 

 reprehend where occasion called, in terms 

 the plainest and most uncompromising a 

 man could use, speaking so when he thought 

 it necessary, even to those whose associa- 

 tion was voluntary, but who somehow were 

 not alienated, as they would have been by 

 such censure from * another. "He often 

 refused me what I most wanted," said one 

 off his staff to me ; " but I never went to 

 sleep without having in my own mind for- 

 given him." 



I have spoken of some of the moral quali- 

 ties which made all rely upon him, and 

 which were the foundation of his ability to 

 deal with men. To them was joined that 

 scientific knowledge without which he could 

 not have been a Museum administrator, 

 but even with this knowledge he could not 

 have been what he was, except from the 

 fact that he loved the Museum, and its ad- 

 ministration, above every other pursuit, 

 even, I think, above his own special branch 

 of biological science. He was perhaps a 

 man of the widest interests I have ever 

 known, so that whatever he was speaking 

 of at any moment seemed to be the thing he 

 knew best. It was often hard to say, then, 

 what love predominated, but I think that 

 he had, on the whole, no pleasure greater 

 than that in his Museum administration, 

 and that, apart from his family interests and 

 joys, this was the deepest love of all. He 

 refused advantageous offers to leave it, 



