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rality which ever shone in his life and actions; with a 
distinct perception that the treasures accumulated in a 
life devoted to science, are not for individual possession, 
but, in order to produce their due effect, must, in some 
degree, be imparted as a common inheritance to the heirs 
of his genius and spirit; with these and similar charac¬ 
ters which time might fail us to enumerate, did our de¬ 
ceased fellow labourer fill up the measure of his useful¬ 
ness, and win for himself a title to the lasting gratitude 
of his fellow beings. 
We should not dare to undertake the delicate task of 
assuaging that grief which the loss of so much merit 
must have occasioned. It is, fortunatley, to be drawn 
from a source more elevated than our feeble voice: The 
remembrances of a well spent life, are to the bereaved 
heart, assurances more strong and consoling than the 
loftiest eulogies of man,—and there is no support to the 
virtue of orphanage more sure than the noble example 
of that personal excellence to which the orphairs me¬ 
mory is taught, habitually, to revert. Happily for 
the domestic circle of our departed associate, they need 
not desire a firmer guarantee for their hopes, nor a 
brighter example for their imitation, than are to be found 
in the character of Lewis David von Schweinitz, 
