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unerring instinct selected the best agents for the accom- 

 plishment of his aims. He understood whom to aproach 

 and whom to leave severely alone. Absolutely without 

 vanity, he was content to get things done, and never con- 

 cerned himself as to who might reap the glory. Too 

 magnanimous to be piqued or soured by any fancied or 

 real slight, he never drew back his hand from the plough, 

 nor hesitated on account of personal antipathies or mis- 

 understandings or envy to cooperate with others in 

 driving it forward. 



I have seen him smile with imperturbable good nature 

 at an individual differing violently from him in opinion, 

 and in such an argumentum ad hominem, half-abusive style 

 that had the Doctor possessed less wisdom or less self- 

 control he would have retorted with anger and made the 

 breach irreparable. And yet I have seen him using that 

 same individual afterwards with immense advantage to 

 himself and his schemes. He would defer, but never let go. 

 Always casting the horoscope to see if the moment were 

 ripe for unveiling his ulterior purposes, he could, never- 

 theless, if the auspices were threatening, remain quiet and 

 bide his time. Disappointed in one direction, he would 

 try in another and another. The more he was baffled the 

 more fertile he became of expedients, until at last he 

 surprised his friends, possibly himself, by the final success 

 of plans supposed long before to have been abandoned. 

 The variety and value of his actual achievements attest 

 the wisdom of his methods as well as perseverance of 

 his will. 



HIS STRENGTH. 



He was strong in physique, in endurance, in energies 

 that seemed never to rest. If I happened to be up at 

 midnight and glanced toward his study window, the light 



