"Lord, it belongs not to my care,
Whether I die or live;
To love and serve Thee is my share,
And that Thy grace must give."
A friend who knew him intimately says: "In private life, Clerk Maxwell was one of the most lovable of men, a sincere and unostentatious Christian. Though perfectly free from any trace of envy or ill-will, he yet showed on fit occasions his contempt for that pseudo-science which seeks for the applause of the ignorant by professing to reduce the whole system of the universe to a fortuitous sequence of uncaused events."
In these phases of his intellectual life, the greatest of the mathematical electricians of the nineteenth century deserves to be taken as the type of the man of science, rather than the many mediocre intelligences whose minds were not large enough apparently for the two sets of truths—those of the moral as well as of the physical order.
FOOTNOTES:
[31] See life of Johann Müller, in Makers of Modern Medicine, Fordham University Press, N. Y., 1906.
[32] Heroes of Science Physicists, N.Y., Young & Co., 1885.
[33] Heroes of Science Physicists, by Wm. Garnett, M. A., D. C. L. London Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Northumberland Ave., Charing Cross, W. C. New York, E. and J. B. Young.
[34] The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, with a selection from his correspondence and occasional writings, and a sketch of his contributions to science. Lewis Campbell and William Garnett. London, 1882.