Rossiter W. Raymond 



simply the impersonal representative 

 of one idea or sphere. On this point 

 we have the frank, pathetic confes- 

 sion of Darwin, that many aesthetic 

 faculties and tastes, once his, became 

 atrophied in the course of years de- 

 voted to a single study. After the 

 death of such a man, a sympathetic 

 biographer may lift the veil and show 

 to all what had been known before to 

 few, — his personal traits and charms ; 

 thus filling up with detail and color 

 the hard, meager outline of him pre- 

 sented by his special work alone. 



Clarence King did not thus sacri- 

 fice himself to his work. His buoy- 

 ant personality dominated his whole 

 career. Gay, versatile, debonair, irre- 

 sistible, gentle, honorable, " tender 

 and true," he was greater and dearer 

 than his work. We shall have, as 

 we have had, many prophets and 

 pioneers of science ; but the King is 

 dead — and there is no King to follow ! 

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