NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



the exercise of an exact and exacting profession, stimulated by 

 commerce with many lands and races, it played incessantly on 

 the topic of the moment and on the remotest and most complex 

 problems of the earth and the dwellers thereon. And within 

 a nature brilliant and efficient beyond all common limits glowed 

 the modest and steady light of a kindness the most unfailing 

 and delicate. The good one hand did he let not the other know ; 

 both were always busy, laying in many lives the foundations of 

 tender and lasting: remembrance.'' 



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