30 The American Geologist. January, 1902. 
thought was that California will be more than ever worth liv- 
ing in, she will take on new charms for all of us who can come 
in contact with professor Claypole. 
Indeed so well developed was this lovable trait of seeing 
the best in all things that I truly believe he would have been 
entirely happy in the midst of the dreariest desert, could be 
have had his loved ones with him; and there he would have 
seen beauty and found the material from which to learn na- 
ture’s laws; and the traveler who passed his way would have 
found an oasis under his feet. 
He would have said with Agassiz that “he had no time to 
make money”. In this beautiful world he did not covet power 
or wealth, —wealth that costs too much.” 
I have never known another whose every trait so univer- 
sally called forth love and admiration. 
EDWARD CLAYPOLE—THE MAN 
By Dr. NORMAN BRIDGE, President of the Board of Trustees, Throop Institute, 
Pasadena, California. 
There is no other lesson in all the universe which trans- 
cends that of a human life. This is a primal truth notwith- 
standing the fact that the history of no human life is ever com- 
pletely told. Whether we know the whole or part matters lit- 
tle, so long as we see the lesson. 
The careers of men are largely determined by accident, 
and the fates of environment. Opportunity has made some 
mediocre men great in the pageantry of the world; while some 
of the greatest of all time have led quiet and unblazoned lives 
for want of some accident that let them win a battle or be one 
out of a score of students to find the epoch truth they all were 
groping after and knew must be near. Thus many of the 
estimates of history are inadequate or wrong. 
It is the character of a man that measures him and by 
which his value to his kind is finally told. And this is the qual- 
ity that is first born to him, and then must grow and ripen 
and be hammered by the work and impediments of his life. It 
is these that fix every man’s place somewhere in the equations 
of the race. 
