rn again. He
had, of course, tools to work with, and facility to use them for the
good of others, enlarging all the while his own fabric till he became
the man of science that he was for his successive trusts. He loved, as
few men ever love, to teach, and as no man can love who begins not
early and makes not teaching his profession. He went to his last
recitation when he should have been upon his bed, to find relief from
the agonies he suffered, and take off his mind from the greater that
he feared. He was never more at home, or more at ease, than with his
class. He loved to enrich them out of his own stores, and thereby draw
out and sharpen their independent faculties. He was not disconcerted
when he sometimes drew to little purpose; though sure, by set
remonstrance, or by his peculiar, quaint, dry and caustic humor, to
rebuke indifference and neglect, or expose the artifice of a bold,
shrewd, or sly pretender. He was sure of what he knew, and never gave
way without a reason. I have sometimes thought him too sure before he
scanned a question. Yet he would never persist when he saw no
foothold. He was set but not dogmatic, or no more so than a sincere
man must be when he believes what he teaches and is in earnest. He
would never defend before his class a theory because it was new, or
because it was learned, or because it was his own, or because it was
popular, or because he would otherwise be ruled out of the synagogue,
till he had made it sure by calculus, or probable by analogy. When
convinced that an hypothesis could not be verified in the present
state of knowledge, or never in logical consistency with established
facts, or moral certainties, he abandoned it like an honest man. But
where he had his ground he stood, and would have it understood. Of
course his teaching was effectual. Those who would be made scholars he
made sound and good ones. He gave a strong character to his
departments, and his departments were an honor to the college.

"Professor Young was a ripe scholar in general. He was conversant with
the accredited branches of knowledge, and held an honorable place
among learned men. He was modest and retiring, content to know, and
unconcerned about the appearance of it. He liked not to open his mouth
in the gate, but he had wisdom to deliver the city. Nothing crude,
partial, superficial, or one-sided, ever came from him. His judgments
were clear, comprehensive, and decisive. He was slow, critical, and
caut