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within the house, leaving us to navigate the ship in the 

 shadow, how can we express our emotions more fittingly 

 than in the words of Xenophon in regard to Socrates, 

 "Our master was so pious that he did nothing without the 

 advice of the gods ; so just that he never injured any one 

 in the least ; so completely master of himself that he 

 never choose the agreeable instead of the good ; so dis- 

 cerning that he never failed in distinguishing the better 

 from the worse ; in short, he was just the best and happi- 

 est man possible." 



HIS GREATNESS. 



Is this the overdrawn tribute of affectionate and blind 

 partiality? Or was Doctor Cook a truly great man de- 

 serving it all ? We think he was. For while the very 

 simplicity of his character and the unostentatiousness of 

 his spirit might cause a stranger to ask: "Wherein lies his 

 greatness?" yet to us who were familiar with the sweep 

 of his inventiveness and the diversity of his projects and 

 methods he was always revealing new elements of a great 

 as well as noble soul. The twin proverbs, that " familiar- 

 ity breeds contempt," and that "no man is a hero to his 

 valet," are where real greatness is involved as stupid as 

 they are false. If a man be a hero at all, he is a hero most 

 of all to those who know him best. And can anyone who 

 knew Doctor Cook well deny that he possessed a genius 

 for multiplying the beneficent utilties of science and for 

 enlarging the resources of human happiness! When it is 

 remembered that although intensely patriotic, he had no 

 taste for military campaigns, in which generals purchase 

 distinction at the price of blood; and that he had no 

 abilities for popular oratory which often win the show 

 without the substance of fame; but was wholly absorbed 

 in the homelier benefits of industrial progress, in those 



