Fragments of Prose and Poetry by Frederic Myers

Author:Frederic Myers [Myers, Frederic]
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

II PROFESSOR ADAMS

1892

By the death of John Couch Adams, Lowndean Professor of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge, our Society has lost one of those rare men whose individual judgment, formed aloof from party and prepossession, can still carry, without published argument, a serious weight of its own. Cautious, modest, and retiring, even to a fault, Professor Adams was not lavish of words or declarations. His mind was a well of wisdom; but those who would have drawn thence for any slight or party purpose were apt to find that they had nothing to draw with, and that the well was deep. Yet on those rare occasions when he was strongly convinced that some controverted view was sound, some difficult course was right, his benignant, measured speech became the very weapon which a wise man addressing wise men would most desire to command. Few men of eminence intervened so seldom in any debate; no man, when he did intervene, left so little desire in prudent disputants to get up and answer him.

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