hority, and with all classes of men, that not a few who began with
zeal for the college over which he presided, came at last to act even
more from zeal for the MAN who presided over it.

"The mind of Dr. Brown was of the very highest order,--profound,
comprehensive, and discriminating. Its action was deliberate,
circumspect, and sure. He made no mistakes; he left nothing in doubt
where certainty was possible; he never conjectured where there were
means of knowledge; he had no obscure glimpses among his ideas of
truth and duty. Always sound and always luminous, his opinions were
never uttered without being understood, and never understood without
being regarded. There was a dignity and weight in his judgments which
seem to me not unlike what constitutes the patriarchal authority of
Washington and Marshall.

"If not already a man of learning, in the larger sense of that term,
it was only because the duties of the pastoral relation had so long
attracted his attention to the objects of more particular interest in
his profession. Had his life been spared, however, he would have been
learned in the highest and rarest sense. His habits of study were
liberal, patient, and eminently philosophical; and within the sphere
which his inquiries covered, his knowledge was accurate and choice,
and his taste faultless. The entire form of his literary character was
beautiful--strong without being dogmatic; delicate without being
fastidious.

"His heart was large. Great objects alone could fill it; and it was
full of great objects. There was no littleness of thought, or purpose,
or ambition, in him--nothing little. The range of his literary
sympathies was as wide as the world of mind; his benevolence as
universal as the wants of man.

"His person was commanding. Gentle in his manners, affable, courteous,
he yet, unconsciously, partly by the natural dignity of his figure,
and still more by the greatness visibly impressed on his features,
exacted from us all a deference, a veneration even, that seemed as
natural as it was inevitable. His very presence was a restraint upon
everything like levity or frivolity, and diffused a thoughtful and
composed, if not always grave, air about him, which, never ceasing to
be cheerful and bright, never failed to dignify the objects of pursuit
and elevate the intercourse of life. A gentleman in the primitive
sense of the word, he was, without seeking to be thought so, always
felt to be of a superior orde