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his personal and public life was given by one who had known him long, and was 
singularly qualified to do him justice in every particular. This was followed by 
other warm and eloquent tributes to his genius as a philosopher and his excellence 
as a man. Memorable among these were the ringing words of the noble Rogers, 
whose own sudden euthanasia was hke the translation of a prophet, and the 
warm-hearted eulogy of the generous and glowing Garfield, whose noble life was 
slowly wasted that it might measure the intensity of the Nation's sorrow. Many 
if not all of the institutions of the country with which Prof. Henry had a more or 
less intimate connection, have honored him by records and estimates of his services 
to science, education, and philosophy. The tributes to his honor from other 
countries have also been hearty and numerous. 
Last of all, the two houses of congress, with the approval of the President, 
have ordered that a statue in bronze should be 'erected within the grounds of 
the institution which was the creation of his genius and industry, as a permanent 
memorial of his services and worth. This statue is now completed and has this 
moment been unveiled to public view. We are assembled to receive the first im- 
pressions of this enduring monument, which we trust will stand for many genera- 
tions and declare the fame and attest the manifold excellences of this eminent 
servant of science and benefactor of the American people." 
Dr. Porter then proceeded to sketch the boyish life and initial investigations 
of Henry. His portrait of the sensitive and dreamy boy, "who found enough 
in the common earth and air and the play of common scenes to stimulate his 
creative powers and to furnish material for his long day dreams, as he lay on the 
sunny hillside and looked into the glowing sky," was striking and graphic. The 
economies of the boy's household were straitened, but not ignoble. The brief 
space of time in which he cultivated the imaginative was gracefully touched on. 
and the awakening to the inducements of science was also beautifully portrayed. 
His calm, gradual, but sure progress onward was described, until he became a 
professor in the Albany academy. 
"At the age of twenty-eight we find him a professor in the academy at Albany, 
of which he had been a graduate, tasked with the work of teaching several hours 
every day, and tasking himself with burning zeal over every possible inquiry in 
chemistry and physics. As we have said already, it was in the brilliant dawn of 
modern chemistry. As the new science steadily rose above the horizon, one new 
discovery after another flashed its light toward the zenith and indicated its up- 
ward path of triumph. In its train appeared those new and mysterious agencies 
which were then just beginning to fix the attention and to task the analysis of the 
oldest and newest discoverer. To those novel phenomena the young Professor 
Henry devoted his special attention and soon astonished the world by achievements 
which first awakened the excitement of bewildered wonder to convert it into the 
homage of amazed conviction. There was nothing to be said when as the plunger 
went down into its bath the impotent bar of iron became possessed of a giant's 
strength and could pick up and hold a weight of more than a solid ton, and as 
the same plunger was lifted this gigantic energy vanished as at the word of an 
