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him about, to listen whenever he spoke, nor the thrill of 

 his words when he chanced to speak to me — for he neg- 

 lected no one. No more can I describe or explain the 

 charm of a good woman, but I know that Professor Joe 

 had it ; and that with it he had also that nobility of spirit 

 which commands respect, loyalty, and devotion. 



It is not so much what he said nor what he taught that 

 lives in my memory. The man impressed himself. My 

 most distinct recollection of his teaching is of the sub- 

 stance of a lecture on the importance of scientific methods 

 — those "tools of thought." The idea was new to me at 

 the time^ and striking. Yet that idea seems as little con- 

 nected with himself as thoi^gh gleaned from an encyclo- 

 pedia. In himself, he was far above, and he inspired 

 thoughts far above any mere method, — thoughts for which 

 words are too coarse and too scant. In this was his true 

 greatness; and however valuable his scientific work, it 

 cannot in the mind of any of his one-time students be 

 compared in importance with his personal influence nor 

 with his spiritual radiance. 



There are keen and brilliant minds that are yet as dis- 

 tant and as cold as Arcturus with reference to human 

 emotions. Men of science especially are apt to deem it 

 a merit that their thinking is impersonal, uninfluenced by 

 considerations of the consequences to merely human inter- 

 ests. Their admirably logical conclusions are held and 

 taught with a lofty disregard, and sometimes disdain, of 

 the pity of it. They are more interested in the "success" 

 of the operation than in the life of the patient. The stu- 

 dent at our colleges, and even the average man of affairs 

 of these days, has his impulses and instincts curbed and 

 his sympathies blunted by certain abstract and wholly 



