To the end of his life, the student whose frame remains
unshaken, writes on morals and history, on science and on fine
art, and his inquiries in all the departments of nature are
marked by as keen and strenuous an enthusiasm as when in his
youth he traversed the hills and the valleys on foot. Each
process becomes but a basis for higher ones; and each successful
and wide research but opens the path to new discoveries. As
the skiff which the boy builds grows at last to the steamship,
and the hut of the pioneer to the palace which the citizen
rears and adorns--while yet neither of these is felt to be
final with him, or adequate to the highest conception he can
form--so the thought of the child expands and accumulates to
the science of manhood, and still is admitted insufficient and
transient.--RICHARD S. STORRS.
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