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benign arts of peace whose blessings are often in the inverse 

 ratio to their lowliness ; and yet that by these inconspicu- 

 ous instrumentalities he somehow managed to impress his 

 ideas — himself — upon countless multitudes of his fellow- 

 citizens in and out of the State, so that his prolific 

 suggestions for bettering the condition of labor and 

 society were quoted all over the Union and translated 

 into foreign languages of European journals, it must be 

 admitted that he bore the test whilst he exercised the 

 prerogatives of a great, a very great, leader of mankind. 

 If the value of life and the rank of renown are to be 

 measured by work done, then the great survey alone, to 

 say nothing of the all else he did, will form a historic 

 monument to Doctor Cook's genius and usefulness. 

 Hence, since his removal from earth, the remark more and 

 more often comes from competent and impartial judges, 

 that he was the most eminent as well as most useful 

 contemporary citizen in New Jersey. Certainly of this 

 citizen it may be remarked, as Victor Cousin said of 

 Sainte Beuve, "This man seems not so much a limited 

 person as an impersonal force, a diffusive, persuasive force. " 

 His presence filled all our buildings and hovered like an 

 atmosphere over the campus. We came into contact with 

 him at so many points. He was everywhere and doing 

 everything. And when the grave swallowed up this 

 restless force, what wide, empty spaces were left, and 

 alas ! how lonely ! He had made himself so necessary, so 

 delightful, to us all, that each of us dreamed he had been 

 the most intimate with him, the most honored with his 

 love and confidence, and had therefore suffered the deep- 

 est personal loss by his sudden taking off. The startled 

 outcry of David, when beholding on Gilboa's heights the 

 beauty of Israel prostrate, seemed to be our individual 

 lament: "Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew^ 

 neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings. 

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