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God, for which I desire to acknowledge my deepest 

 gratitude. 



Let us then thank our Heavenly Father for the 

 advance of Science, and for the life, character, 

 labours, and contributions to true science of Louis 

 Agassiz. And as it is a true saying, They mourn 

 the dead aright who live as they would wish us to 

 live,'' so let us in our several spheres endeavour to 

 imitate the noble deeds of our illustrious dead ; 

 remembering that he said he had no time to make 

 money." And he was right. Thank God he gave 

 his time, strength, genius, and heart to a far nobler 

 purpose. To make money requires time, skill, and 

 talent. It is a trade — a business — and in its place 

 all right ; but it is not the highest calling of man. 

 It is not in itself the greatest good. What is gold, 

 gold to thought, to the enjoyments of a cultivated 

 mind? Like him, then, let us go forth from this 

 memorial meeting to give more of our time, and 

 strength, and substance, to the enlightenment, men- 

 tal culture, and advancement of our fellow-men, in 

 the knowledge of all truth. 



EULOGY BY HENRY EDWARDS. 



* * O ! what a noble heart was here undone, 

 When Science self destroyed her favourite son." 



From a seat of learning in the North has gone 

 forth a wail of sorrow, a wail which echoes not only 

 through the length and breadth of our own land, but 

 in every place in which refinement and culture have 

 found a home, and which will thrill for years to 



