Century Necrological Note 



disaster, often with profound penetra- 

 tion and with the informing flash 

 of genius. It is but a suggestion of 

 his rare equipment to say that in 

 his talk, as in his work, his imagina- 

 tion was his dominant, at moments 

 his dominating, quality. Intense, 

 restless, wide-reaching, nourished by 

 much reading, trained in 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 pro- 

 blems of the earth and the dwellers 

 thereon. And within a nature bril- 

 liant and efficient beyond all common 

 limits, glowed the modest and steady 

 light of a kindness the most unfail- 

 ing 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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