Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
By Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Published by Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 1889
Item notes: v.7-8 1883-1887
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Aug 28, 2006
LUCIUS HERITAGE.
By HENRY DOTY MAXSON.
Lucius Heritage, son of Isaac C. and Margaret S. Heritage, was born Dec. 21, 1848, in Walworth, Wisconsin. In childhood his family removed to Milton, where he spent a large portion of his life. The death of Ms mother in 1864, led to a suspension of his studies and a temporary abandonment of his purpose to prepare himself for a profession. He accordingly became apprenticed to learn the wagon-maker's trade, and spent three years in this employment. His native taste for the things of the intellect led him, however, to embrace an opportunity to resume his studies, and he entered Milton College in 1869. Completing the Teacher's Course in that institution in 1872, he taught Latin for a short time in the St. Paul High School, and then returned to Milton to receive his diploma from the Classical Course, in 1875. In the fall of that year he became first assistant of Mr. Albert Markman, in the Milwaukee Academy, where he remained one year. It was my fortune after an interval of several years to succeed him in this position, and I found his reputation for character and scholarship still very vivid in the traditions of the school. He was pretty uniformly Mr. Markham's standard of comparison in speaking of the qualifications of a teacher. "As good a man as Heritage," was the highest compliment. In the fall of 1876 he sailed for Germany, where he spent a little over two years as a student in Gottingen, Halle and Leipsic. In the year after his return he was married to Miss Ruth G. Maxson, who survives him, with one son, their only child, born in 1885. It was during his temporary residence in Milton in 1879, that I first knew him. Our acquaintances are usually many; but the circle of friends who really enter the current of our life and make vital contributions to our character and thought, must always be small. It was my fortune from this time until his death, to number Prof. Heritage among these companions of the soul. In 1879 he was appointed Latin tutor in the University of Wisconsin. Prof. W. F. Allen, who, but for his untimely death, would have prepared a worthier biography than I am able to furnish, wrote soon after the death of Mr. Heritage that when he became a candidate for the instructorship in Latin, the University faculty were already predisposed in his favor on account of the way in which he acquitted himself at an inter-state oratorical contest held in Madison some years before. "I remember nothing about the contestants or their subjects," says Prof. Allen, "except that the delegate from Milton College attracted our attention by his intellectual countenance and fine bearing." In 1882, he was elected Assistant Professor of Latin, and four years later was placed in full charge of the department. In 1883-4 he spent another year in Germany, for the purpose of pursuing some special studies. Throughout his life he was a hard worker at whatever he undertook. Never robust, he undoubtedly overtaxed his strength by intense application to his studies. For several years, though he himself displayed great confidence and courage, his immediate friends had been solicitous about his health; and when a threatened attack of pneumonia prostrated him in November, 1888, they feared that the end was not far off. He rallied, however, and for a short time resumed his work in the University, taut was soon compelled to relinquish it, and started on a Southern trip in the hope of regaining his health. The effort was fruitless. He died in lie. Hands, California, May 14, 1889. Prof. Heritage wrote very little for publication. His most important literary work was an edition of the Dialogues of Tacitus, which, at the time of his death, he had been for some years engaged in preparing. It seldom happens that the nil nisi vertim of the biographer becomes more nearly one with the nil nisi bomim of the eulogist than in the case of Mr. Heritage. Of an exceptionally keen and accurate mind, he was no less distinguished for the integrity of his character. His work as a pupil and a teacher I know only at second hand. Of the latter Prof. Allen wrote: "Under his charge the Latin department has advanced steadily in thoroughness and breadth of training. As every year I have taken some of the higher classes in Latin, I have noticed a marked improvement from year to year in the quality of the scholarship, especially in the capacity of ready and correct translation. His power as a teacher was very great. He won the affection and confidence of his classes in the highest degree, and was as distinguished for firmness and strictness as for courtesy and fairness." While capable of making a thoroughly creditable appearance in public, and always holding the attention of his hearers by his clearness in both thought and expression, ho did not seek publicity. He was essentially a man of the study. The energy, which with many gifted people largely spends itself in more ostentatious ways, with him was rather employed in enlarging and refining his personal culture. And thus the informal contacts of intimate friendship became a source of keen delight. It was in this phase of Ms life that I knew him best. Conversation with him was always enriching. He approached a question not in the role of a debater, but of an inquirer. As far as the interests of truth are concerned, debate is for those directly engaged iu it worse than In Memoriam.cerned, debate is for those directly engaged iu it worse than profitless, and it was repugnant to his temper. He was naturally restrained from taking the attitude of the advocate both by the judicialness of his mind and the candor of his character; and this disposition was powerfully reenforced by a discriminating intellect which refused to ignore identities or confuse distinctions. Add the command of a copious and precise vocabulary, and his equipment for enjoyable and instruct! ve conversation was complete. It was almost a luxury to have him occasionally hesitate for a word. It gave one a moment to enjoy in anticipation the right word which was sure to come. While by nature a man of the study, he by no means lacked interest in matters of public concern, and the interest was of a decidedly practical rather than of a merely academic character. Politics he greatly enjoyed, not at all as a trade, nor yet merely as a science, but more still as a field for effort in the line of promoting, or trying to promote, the common good. While he could never become a partisan, he was always anxious to actively identify himself with any organized effort to reform or purify our public life. The temperance problem and other social questions of importance in our day provoked earnest study, and when the line of action seemed clear, enthusiastic devotion. If he ever seemed to any one lacking in public participation in reformatory work, that fact must be set down to the impartiality of his mind, which insisted on seeing both sides of the shield ; and that impartiality was greatly strengthened by an alert and delicate sense of humor a quality of great service, not only in giving sparkle to speech, but also in restraining from absurdity. In media tiitissimius ibis was not with him the maxim of a calculating prudence. It rather represented the native temper of the man. Of those deeper and more difficult themes which we call religious, we spoke frequently and freely. Mr. Heritage shrank from no light which the most thorough-going rationalism could shed on the problems of life. But through all this unrestrained communion of thought and inquiry, I never found his faith to falter in the underlying sanity of things, the eternal purpose which runs through all, and gives to human effort and character an immortal meaning. That purpose was most beautifully displayed in his life. We may well believe that, though not fully revealed to our eyes, that purpose has with no less beauty, been working itself out in his death.
Provided by: Jon Saunders (#47674050)
By Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Published by Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 1889
Item notes: v.7-8 1883-1887
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Aug 28, 2006
LUCIUS HERITAGE.
By HENRY DOTY MAXSON.
Lucius Heritage, son of Isaac C. and Margaret S. Heritage, was born Dec. 21, 1848, in Walworth, Wisconsin. In childhood his family removed to Milton, where he spent a large portion of his life. The death of Ms mother in 1864, led to a suspension of his studies and a temporary abandonment of his purpose to prepare himself for a profession. He accordingly became apprenticed to learn the wagon-maker's trade, and spent three years in this employment. His native taste for the things of the intellect led him, however, to embrace an opportunity to resume his studies, and he entered Milton College in 1869. Completing the Teacher's Course in that institution in 1872, he taught Latin for a short time in the St. Paul High School, and then returned to Milton to receive his diploma from the Classical Course, in 1875. In the fall of that year he became first assistant of Mr. Albert Markman, in the Milwaukee Academy, where he remained one year. It was my fortune after an interval of several years to succeed him in this position, and I found his reputation for character and scholarship still very vivid in the traditions of the school. He was pretty uniformly Mr. Markham's standard of comparison in speaking of the qualifications of a teacher. "As good a man as Heritage," was the highest compliment. In the fall of 1876 he sailed for Germany, where he spent a little over two years as a student in Gottingen, Halle and Leipsic. In the year after his return he was married to Miss Ruth G. Maxson, who survives him, with one son, their only child, born in 1885. It was during his temporary residence in Milton in 1879, that I first knew him. Our acquaintances are usually many; but the circle of friends who really enter the current of our life and make vital contributions to our character and thought, must always be small. It was my fortune from this time until his death, to number Prof. Heritage among these companions of the soul. In 1879 he was appointed Latin tutor in the University of Wisconsin. Prof. W. F. Allen, who, but for his untimely death, would have prepared a worthier biography than I am able to furnish, wrote soon after the death of Mr. Heritage that when he became a candidate for the instructorship in Latin, the University faculty were already predisposed in his favor on account of the way in which he acquitted himself at an inter-state oratorical contest held in Madison some years before. "I remember nothing about the contestants or their subjects," says Prof. Allen, "except that the delegate from Milton College attracted our attention by his intellectual countenance and fine bearing." In 1882, he was elected Assistant Professor of Latin, and four years later was placed in full charge of the department. In 1883-4 he spent another year in Germany, for the purpose of pursuing some special studies. Throughout his life he was a hard worker at whatever he undertook. Never robust, he undoubtedly overtaxed his strength by intense application to his studies. For several years, though he himself displayed great confidence and courage, his immediate friends had been solicitous about his health; and when a threatened attack of pneumonia prostrated him in November, 1888, they feared that the end was not far off. He rallied, however, and for a short time resumed his work in the University, taut was soon compelled to relinquish it, and started on a Southern trip in the hope of regaining his health. The effort was fruitless. He died in lie. Hands, California, May 14, 1889. Prof. Heritage wrote very little for publication. His most important literary work was an edition of the Dialogues of Tacitus, which, at the time of his death, he had been for some years engaged in preparing. It seldom happens that the nil nisi vertim of the biographer becomes more nearly one with the nil nisi bomim of the eulogist than in the case of Mr. Heritage. Of an exceptionally keen and accurate mind, he was no less distinguished for the integrity of his character. His work as a pupil and a teacher I know only at second hand. Of the latter Prof. Allen wrote: "Under his charge the Latin department has advanced steadily in thoroughness and breadth of training. As every year I have taken some of the higher classes in Latin, I have noticed a marked improvement from year to year in the quality of the scholarship, especially in the capacity of ready and correct translation. His power as a teacher was very great. He won the affection and confidence of his classes in the highest degree, and was as distinguished for firmness and strictness as for courtesy and fairness." While capable of making a thoroughly creditable appearance in public, and always holding the attention of his hearers by his clearness in both thought and expression, ho did not seek publicity. He was essentially a man of the study. The energy, which with many gifted people largely spends itself in more ostentatious ways, with him was rather employed in enlarging and refining his personal culture. And thus the informal contacts of intimate friendship became a source of keen delight. It was in this phase of Ms life that I knew him best. Conversation with him was always enriching. He approached a question not in the role of a debater, but of an inquirer. As far as the interests of truth are concerned, debate is for those directly engaged iu it worse than In Memoriam.cerned, debate is for those directly engaged iu it worse than profitless, and it was repugnant to his temper. He was naturally restrained from taking the attitude of the advocate both by the judicialness of his mind and the candor of his character; and this disposition was powerfully reenforced by a discriminating intellect which refused to ignore identities or confuse distinctions. Add the command of a copious and precise vocabulary, and his equipment for enjoyable and instruct! ve conversation was complete. It was almost a luxury to have him occasionally hesitate for a word. It gave one a moment to enjoy in anticipation the right word which was sure to come. While by nature a man of the study, he by no means lacked interest in matters of public concern, and the interest was of a decidedly practical rather than of a merely academic character. Politics he greatly enjoyed, not at all as a trade, nor yet merely as a science, but more still as a field for effort in the line of promoting, or trying to promote, the common good. While he could never become a partisan, he was always anxious to actively identify himself with any organized effort to reform or purify our public life. The temperance problem and other social questions of importance in our day provoked earnest study, and when the line of action seemed clear, enthusiastic devotion. If he ever seemed to any one lacking in public participation in reformatory work, that fact must be set down to the impartiality of his mind, which insisted on seeing both sides of the shield ; and that impartiality was greatly strengthened by an alert and delicate sense of humor a quality of great service, not only in giving sparkle to speech, but also in restraining from absurdity. In media tiitissimius ibis was not with him the maxim of a calculating prudence. It rather represented the native temper of the man. Of those deeper and more difficult themes which we call religious, we spoke frequently and freely. Mr. Heritage shrank from no light which the most thorough-going rationalism could shed on the problems of life. But through all this unrestrained communion of thought and inquiry, I never found his faith to falter in the underlying sanity of things, the eternal purpose which runs through all, and gives to human effort and character an immortal meaning. That purpose was most beautifully displayed in his life. We may well believe that, though not fully revealed to our eyes, that purpose has with no less beauty, been working itself out in his death.
Provided by: Jon Saunders (#47674050)
Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
By Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Published by Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 1889
Item notes: v.7-8 1883-1887
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Aug 28, 2006
LUCIUS HERITAGE.
By HENRY DOTY MAXSON.
Lucius Heritage, son of Isaac C. and Margaret S. Heritage, was born Dec. 21, 1848, in Walworth, Wisconsin. In childhood his family removed to Milton, where he spent a large portion of his life. The death of Ms mother in 1864, led to a suspension of his studies and a temporary abandonment of his purpose to prepare himself for a profession. He accordingly became apprenticed to learn the wagon-maker's trade, and spent three years in this employment. His native taste for the things of the intellect led him, however, to embrace an opportunity to resume his studies, and he entered Milton College in 1869. Completing the Teacher's Course in that institution in 1872, he taught Latin for a short time in the St. Paul High School, and then returned to Milton to receive his diploma from the Classical Course, in 1875. In the fall of that year he became first assistant of Mr. Albert Markman, in the Milwaukee Academy, where he remained one year. It was my fortune after an interval of several years to succeed him in this position, and I found his reputation for character and scholarship still very vivid in the traditions of the school. He was pretty uniformly Mr. Markham's standard of comparison in speaking of the qualifications of a teacher. "As good a man as Heritage," was the highest compliment. In the fall of 1876 he sailed for Germany, where he spent a little over two years as a student in Gottingen, Halle and Leipsic. In the year after his return he was married to Miss Ruth G. Maxson, who survives him, with one son, their only child, born in 1885. It was during his temporary residence in Milton in 1879, that I first knew him. Our acquaintances are usually many; but the circle of friends who really enter the current of our life and make vital contributions to our character and thought, must always be small. It was my fortune from this time until his death, to number Prof. Heritage among these companions of the soul. In 1879 he was appointed Latin tutor in the University of Wisconsin. Prof. W. F. Allen, who, but for his untimely death, would have prepared a worthier biography than I am able to furnish, wrote soon after the death of Mr. Heritage that when he became a candidate for the instructorship in Latin, the University faculty were already predisposed in his favor on account of the way in which he acquitted himself at an inter-state oratorical contest held in Madison some years before. "I remember nothing about the contestants or their subjects," says Prof. Allen, "except that the delegate from Milton College attracted our attention by his intellectual countenance and fine bearing." In 1882, he was elected Assistant Professor of Latin, and four years later was placed in full charge of the department. In 1883-4 he spent another year in Germany, for the purpose of pursuing some special studies. Throughout his life he was a hard worker at whatever he undertook. Never robust, he undoubtedly overtaxed his strength by intense application to his studies. For several years, though he himself displayed great confidence and courage, his immediate friends had been solicitous about his health; and when a threatened attack of pneumonia prostrated him in November, 1888, they feared that the end was not far off. He rallied, however, and for a short time resumed his work in the University, taut was soon compelled to relinquish it, and started on a Southern trip in the hope of regaining his health. The effort was fruitless. He died in lie. Hands, California, May 14, 1889. Prof. Heritage wrote very little for publication. His most important literary work was an edition of the Dialogues of Tacitus, which, at the time of his death, he had been for some years engaged in preparing. It seldom happens that the nil nisi vertim of the biographer becomes more nearly one with the nil nisi bomim of the eulogist than in the case of Mr. Heritage. Of an exceptionally keen and accurate mind, he was no less distinguished for the integrity of his character. His work as a pupil and a teacher I know only at second hand. Of the latter Prof. Allen wrote: "Under his charge the Latin department has advanced steadily in thoroughness and breadth of training. As every year I have taken some of the higher classes in Latin, I have noticed a marked improvement from year to year in the quality of the scholarship, especially in the capacity of ready and correct translation. His power as a teacher was very great. He won the affection and confidence of his classes in the highest degree, and was as distinguished for firmness and strictness as for courtesy and fairness." While capable of making a thoroughly creditable appearance in public, and always holding the attention of his hearers by his clearness in both thought and expression, ho did not seek publicity. He was essentially a man of the study. The energy, which with many gifted people largely spends itself in more ostentatious ways, with him was rather employed in enlarging and refining his personal culture. And thus the informal contacts of intimate friendship became a source of keen delight. It was in this phase of Ms life that I knew him best. Conversation with him was always enriching. He approached a question not in the role of a debater, but of an inquirer. As far as the interests of truth are concerned, debate is for those directly engaged iu it worse than In Memoriam.cerned, debate is for those directly engaged iu it worse than profitless, and it was repugnant to his temper. He was naturally restrained from taking the attitude of the advocate both by the judicialness of his mind and the candor of his character; and this disposition was powerfully reenforced by a discriminating intellect which refused to ignore identities or confuse distinctions. Add the command of a copious and precise vocabulary, and his equipment for enjoyable and instruct! ve conversation was complete. It was almost a luxury to have him occasionally hesitate for a word. It gave one a moment to enjoy in anticipation the right word which was sure to come. While by nature a man of the study, he by no means lacked interest in matters of public concern, and the interest was of a decidedly practical rather than of a merely academic character. Politics he greatly enjoyed, not at all as a trade, nor yet merely as a science, but more still as a field for effort in the line of promoting, or trying to promote, the common good. While he could never become a partisan, he was always anxious to actively identify himself with any organized effort to reform or purify our public life. The temperance problem and other social questions of importance in our day provoked earnest study, and when the line of action seemed clear, enthusiastic devotion. If he ever seemed to any one lacking in public participation in reformatory work, that fact must be set down to the impartiality of his mind, which insisted on seeing both sides of the shield ; and that impartiality was greatly strengthened by an alert and delicate sense of humor a quality of great service, not only in giving sparkle to speech, but also in restraining from absurdity. In media tiitissimius ibis was not with him the maxim of a calculating prudence. It rather represented the native temper of the man. Of those deeper and more difficult themes which we call religious, we spoke frequently and freely. Mr. Heritage shrank from no light which the most thorough-going rationalism could shed on the problems of life. But through all this unrestrained communion of thought and inquiry, I never found his faith to falter in the underlying sanity of things, the eternal purpose which runs through all, and gives to human effort and character an immortal meaning. That purpose was most beautifully displayed in his life. We may well believe that, though not fully revealed to our eyes, that purpose has with no less beauty, been working itself out in his death.
Provided by: Jon Saunders (#47674050)
By Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Published by Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 1889
Item notes: v.7-8 1883-1887
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Aug 28, 2006
LUCIUS HERITAGE.
By HENRY DOTY MAXSON.
Lucius Heritage, son of Isaac C. and Margaret S. Heritage, was born Dec. 21, 1848, in Walworth, Wisconsin. In childhood his family removed to Milton, where he spent a large portion of his life. The death of Ms mother in 1864, led to a suspension of his studies and a temporary abandonment of his purpose to prepare himself for a profession. He accordingly became apprenticed to learn the wagon-maker's trade, and spent three years in this employment. His native taste for the things of the intellect led him, however, to embrace an opportunity to resume his studies, and he entered Milton College in 1869. Completing the Teacher's Course in that institution in 1872, he taught Latin for a short time in the St. Paul High School, and then returned to Milton to receive his diploma from the Classical Course, in 1875. In the fall of that year he became first assistant of Mr. Albert Markman, in the Milwaukee Academy, where he remained one year. It was my fortune after an interval of several years to succeed him in this position, and I found his reputation for character and scholarship still very vivid in the traditions of the school. He was pretty uniformly Mr. Markham's standard of comparison in speaking of the qualifications of a teacher. "As good a man as Heritage," was the highest compliment. In the fall of 1876 he sailed for Germany, where he spent a little over two years as a student in Gottingen, Halle and Leipsic. In the year after his return he was married to Miss Ruth G. Maxson, who survives him, with one son, their only child, born in 1885. It was during his temporary residence in Milton in 1879, that I first knew him. Our acquaintances are usually many; but the circle of friends who really enter the current of our life and make vital contributions to our character and thought, must always be small. It was my fortune from this time until his death, to number Prof. Heritage among these companions of the soul. In 1879 he was appointed Latin tutor in the University of Wisconsin. Prof. W. F. Allen, who, but for his untimely death, would have prepared a worthier biography than I am able to furnish, wrote soon after the death of Mr. Heritage that when he became a candidate for the instructorship in Latin, the University faculty were already predisposed in his favor on account of the way in which he acquitted himself at an inter-state oratorical contest held in Madison some years before. "I remember nothing about the contestants or their subjects," says Prof. Allen, "except that the delegate from Milton College attracted our attention by his intellectual countenance and fine bearing." In 1882, he was elected Assistant Professor of Latin, and four years later was placed in full charge of the department. In 1883-4 he spent another year in Germany, for the purpose of pursuing some special studies. Throughout his life he was a hard worker at whatever he undertook. Never robust, he undoubtedly overtaxed his strength by intense application to his studies. For several years, though he himself displayed great confidence and courage, his immediate friends had been solicitous about his health; and when a threatened attack of pneumonia prostrated him in November, 1888, they feared that the end was not far off. He rallied, however, and for a short time resumed his work in the University, taut was soon compelled to relinquish it, and started on a Southern trip in the hope of regaining his health. The effort was fruitless. He died in lie. Hands, California, May 14, 1889. Prof. Heritage wrote very little for publication. His most important literary work was an edition of the Dialogues of Tacitus, which, at the time of his death, he had been for some years engaged in preparing. It seldom happens that the nil nisi vertim of the biographer becomes more nearly one with the nil nisi bomim of the eulogist than in the case of Mr. Heritage. Of an exceptionally keen and accurate mind, he was no less distinguished for the integrity of his character. His work as a pupil and a teacher I know only at second hand. Of the latter Prof. Allen wrote: "Under his charge the Latin department has advanced steadily in thoroughness and breadth of training. As every year I have taken some of the higher classes in Latin, I have noticed a marked improvement from year to year in the quality of the scholarship, especially in the capacity of ready and correct translation. His power as a teacher was very great. He won the affection and confidence of his classes in the highest degree, and was as distinguished for firmness and strictness as for courtesy and fairness." While capable of making a thoroughly creditable appearance in public, and always holding the attention of his hearers by his clearness in both thought and expression, ho did not seek publicity. He was essentially a man of the study. The energy, which with many gifted people largely spends itself in more ostentatious ways, with him was rather employed in enlarging and refining his personal culture. And thus the informal contacts of intimate friendship became a source of keen delight. It was in this phase of Ms life that I knew him best. Conversation with him was always enriching. He approached a question not in the role of a debater, but of an inquirer. As far as the interests of truth are concerned, debate is for those directly engaged iu it worse than In Memoriam.cerned, debate is for those directly engaged iu it worse than profitless, and it was repugnant to his temper. He was naturally restrained from taking the attitude of the advocate both by the judicialness of his mind and the candor of his character; and this disposition was powerfully reenforced by a discriminating intellect which refused to ignore identities or confuse distinctions. Add the command of a copious and precise vocabulary, and his equipment for enjoyable and instruct! ve conversation was complete. It was almost a luxury to have him occasionally hesitate for a word. It gave one a moment to enjoy in anticipation the right word which was sure to come. While by nature a man of the study, he by no means lacked interest in matters of public concern, and the interest was of a decidedly practical rather than of a merely academic character. Politics he greatly enjoyed, not at all as a trade, nor yet merely as a science, but more still as a field for effort in the line of promoting, or trying to promote, the common good. While he could never become a partisan, he was always anxious to actively identify himself with any organized effort to reform or purify our public life. The temperance problem and other social questions of importance in our day provoked earnest study, and when the line of action seemed clear, enthusiastic devotion. If he ever seemed to any one lacking in public participation in reformatory work, that fact must be set down to the impartiality of his mind, which insisted on seeing both sides of the shield ; and that impartiality was greatly strengthened by an alert and delicate sense of humor a quality of great service, not only in giving sparkle to speech, but also in restraining from absurdity. In media tiitissimius ibis was not with him the maxim of a calculating prudence. It rather represented the native temper of the man. Of those deeper and more difficult themes which we call religious, we spoke frequently and freely. Mr. Heritage shrank from no light which the most thorough-going rationalism could shed on the problems of life. But through all this unrestrained communion of thought and inquiry, I never found his faith to falter in the underlying sanity of things, the eternal purpose which runs through all, and gives to human effort and character an immortal meaning. That purpose was most beautifully displayed in his life. We may well believe that, though not fully revealed to our eyes, that purpose has with no less beauty, been working itself out in his death.
Provided by: Jon Saunders (#47674050)
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