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traits which he exhibited there would alone have sufficed to 
give me my admiration for him as a man of science and my 
affectionate regard for him as a man. The two were blended ; 
for in him the scientist and the man were one. This unity 
was, indeed, I think, more notable in him and more attractive 
than in any one whom I have ever met. It brought the data 
of a remote science to the service of common converse; just 
as in him it brought the method of a remote science to the 
service of a mere political and social economy ; and it seemed 
to augment the man into a reciprocal dimension with the 
subject. 
As he would sit there at the table, with that Olympian 
head of his, superbly poised, there was in his very aspect a 
something nearly akin to the majestic; and the impression 
was confirmed by what Mr. Bryce has called the power and 
the insight of his eyes — a power, of course, consisting not in 
any physical singularity, but in the fact that they were the 
eyes, not merely of a close and keen observer, but of a great 
reflector. There was in them distance, depth, patience, labor, 
and repose. You felt the mind behind the eyes, and behind 
the mind you felt the immensities with which it was engaged. 
A demeanor notably quiet: not, for instance, like that of 
Doctor Hale, discursive and richly profuse. Compact rather, 
and reserved; yet more than responsive; and in its responses 
notably modest, appreciative, and informing. He once wrote 
of Agassiz that he was one of the three men (the others were 
Henry and Waite) who impressed [him] by a “certain artless 
dignity, which made their presence both instructive and 
charming as if they had never known what breeding was, 
because they had been born bred.” Such a dignity — dis- 
tinctly artless — was his own. It was in part physical, sus- 
tained by a presence so imposing. But it would have signi- 
fied little except for the mind back of it, and the nature also. 
It was not accompanied — nor enfeebled — by .grace; rather the 
opposite. His gestures, for instance, in speaking to an audi* 
ence, were distinctly shy, stiff and awkward; but where in 
this they failed to supply grace, they seemed to add impres- 
siveness; for they suggested the elemental in the nature of 
