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Excerpt from A Discourse on the Life and Character of Hon. Joseph Story, LL. D: Delivered on the Sunday Following His Death, September 14, 1845
The noble science, to which, with intense zeal, he devoted his life, is one which must require laborious study, and, to at tain eminence in which, must be the result of uncommon natu ral gifts, united with patient thought and untiring energy. If this is true generally, then it must follow, that to preside as Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court must require vast intel lectual strength, searching insight and comprehensive judg ment. To fill this responsible place worthily, one must pos sess rare accomplishments united with unwearied diligence. He must become accurately acquainted with written law, and the great principles of equity. He must have firmness with moderation, and zeal with candor. All this - through more than one third of a century - was to be seen, in him who has now, in the Providence of God, been suddenly removed from the tribunals of the nation. Thoroughly acquainted with the letter of the law, he grasped also ultimate principles; calm and clear in his statements, candid in his admissions, just and lucid in his arguments, he went on, step by step, with a severe and adamantine logic until his conclusions became like abso lute demonstrations of truth.
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