PROF, PETER EXGELMANN. 26S* 



Nof;ood and pure man lives without divinities — and Engleman'swere; hnmanity, 

 progress, ii realization of the high ideals to which his philosophy pointed. Brave 

 an I out.'-poken in uttering his convictions when need was, he was never dogmatic. 

 He did his vroik in a spirit of true humanity — a humanity that was content cheer- 

 fully to accept the place which he believed he held in nature, that of a stepping- 

 stone — one of the myriads by which the race is to gain a glorious future. But he 

 had none of the assumed, servile, ciental abjectures that leads man to revile him- 

 self as a worthless worm of the dust, and in the same breath demand, with sublime 

 egotism, why he was created, with iiis lofty purposes and high aspirations, if he is 

 to have a glorious and an undying future? That leads him to deem himself defrauded 

 if, with his matchless intellect, he is not to know a state of being far transcending 

 anytliing which ea)th aflfords, more or less ineflable and gorgeous as his ideas are 

 spiritual and his imagination vivid. 



The man who holds and promulgates ideas that are in opposition to the popular 

 beliefs of his age, can scarcely live a bright and cheerful life; but it may contaia 

 much of nobleness that compensates for the loss of worldly pleasures. Engelmann 

 was a serious but not a sad man. He bore a burden common to many, but he stood 

 upright under it. He answered the question which man is ever asking " What am 

 I?" by saying " my consciousness is a mere resultant of force acting upon matter 

 and at the death of the flesh it will revert to its former conditions, .as sounds revert 

 back to the air in which they were born." We may answer it differently, but we 

 cannot demonstrate that he was mi-'^taken; and we must admire Iiis attitude when 

 brought face to face with a great pnjblein. 



It was with eyes open and head erect — true to his creed to the last — hugging n^ 

 delusive dreams — his highest conception of truth upon his lips. Iso man can meet 

 death better! 



He is at peace, and if it be tliat the universe holds greater possibilities than were 

 acknowledged in his philosophy, we may be sure, as has beon said of one whom Id 

 many things he resembled: 



" "Wherever there is knowledge. 

 Wherever there is virtue, 

 "Wherever tliere is beauty, 

 He will find a home." 



