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through his heart as he wrote that line ! *^His old 

 teacher offered him all the resources of the museum 

 at Cambridge, but, with all his old love for the work, 

 his strength was gone/' 



We may speak freely of the dead, if no evil is in 

 our speech ; but delicacy suggests that we should 

 cautiously praise the living. 



Other members of the earher classes are profes- 

 sors and teachers in various colleges and schools 

 throughout the country, or faithfully toiling in some 

 field of investigation. I may not call their names. 

 Many have already acquired distinguished reputa- 

 tion, and all are contributing to ^^the sum of human 

 knowledge.'' Some of them are borne upon the 

 roll of this Academy, and share with us the duties 

 of this occasion. 



A few days more than eighteen months have 

 gone since Stimpson died ; and now the illustrious 

 teacher has followed his old-time pupil, on the 

 same inevitable path. 



Shall we not pause, before we say farewell, and 

 review the labours and services of the master, since 

 the day when he made our country his own ? 



How much, what part of our intellectual growth 

 and material advancement, with its resulting higher 

 and expanding civilisation, is due to him ? 



Of those lofty qualities which lift man above the 

 merely imitative and sensual animal, and place him 

 nearer the divine — in all which makes a people wise 

 and virtuous and a nation great — who has done more 

 to disseminate the seed and encourage the growth 

 than Louis Agassiz? 



