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others, almost as desperate ; but that 

 was not the point to us who were 

 his friends. The point was his sin- 

 gularly sympathetic energy which 

 carried us with him whether we would 

 or no. To do us justice, I do not 

 think we greatly cared whether he 

 was right or wrong. As he put it, 

 only one thing is certain — Nothing 

 is right ! His only ultimate truth 

 was the action, not the thought. To 

 him, all science and all life were in 

 that law, which, after all, is the only 

 result of his generation — the law of 

 Energy. Those of us who gladly 

 and carelessly gave ourselves up to 

 his influence and let him swing us as 

 he liked, — those he loved, and his 

 gayety and humor played about them 

 to the last, when gayety was the very 

 last of emotions either in his mind or 

 in ours. The last letter I have from 

 him was written in the spring of 1897 ; 

 he wrote about a trip to Mexico which 

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