Biographical Notice 



I cannot undertake to reproduce. 

 But there was for me something- 

 dearer and deeper in it than its spark- 

 ling surface. 



Few among those who have 

 achieved distinction in the labors 

 or the literature of science have 

 also impressed upon their generation 

 a vivid sense of their own person- 

 ality. In the majority of instances, 

 I think, such men have hid them- 

 selves in their work, sacrificing to it 

 the varied enjoyments and associa- 

 tions through which they might have 

 become better known to their con- 

 temporaries. Perhaps we might say 

 that, in this age, scientific distinction 

 must be won, as a rule, in some spe- 

 cialty, and at the cost of an exclusive 

 devotion to that one department ; 

 so that the great specialist, however 

 versatile he might have become, if all 

 his original endowments had been 

 utilized, is at last, to the eyes of men, 

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