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to him a holy

      quest. That he could and would lay a lance in defence of his opinions is

      evidenced in his writings, and has many times been demonstrated to the

      discomfiture of assailing critics. But his urbanity was a part of

      himself and never departed from him.

      Not to destroy but to create was his part in the world. In developing

      his philosophy he built upon the foundation of his predecessors. No good

      and true stone to be found among the ruins of the past, but was

      carefully worked into his superstructure of modern thought, radiant with

      spirituality, to the building of which the enthusiasm of his life was

      devoted.

      To one who has studied Judge Troward, and grasped the significance of

      his theory of the "Universal Sub-conscious Mind," and who also has

      attained to an appreciation of Henri Bergson's theory of a "Universal

      Livingness," superior to and outside the material Universe, there must

      appear a distinct correlation of ideas. That intricate and ponderously

      irrefutable argument that Bergson has so patiently built up by deep

      scientific research and unsurpassed profundity of thought and

      crystal-clear reason, that leads to the substantial conclusion that man

      has leapt the barrier of materiality only by the urge of some external

      pressure superior to himself, but which, by reason of infinite effort,

      he alone of all terrestrial beings has succeeded in utilizing in a

      superior manner and to his advantage: this well-rounded and exhaustively

      demonstrated argument in favour of a super-livingness in the universe,

      which finds its highest terrestrial expression in man, appears to be the

      scientific demonstration of Judge Troward's basic principle of the

      "Universal Sub-conscious Mind." This universal and infinite

      God-consciousness which Judge Troward postulates as man's

      sub-consciousness, and from which man was created and is maintained,

      and of which all physical, mental and spiritual manifestation is a form

      of expression, appears to be a corollary of Bergson's demonstrated

      "Universal Livingness." What Bergson has so brilliantly proven by

      patient and exhaustive processes of science, Judge Troward arrived at by

      intuition, and postulated as the basis of his argument, which he

      proceeded to develop by deductive reasoning.

      The writer was struck by the apparent parallelism of these two

      distinctly dissimilar philosophies, and mentioned the discovery to Judge

      Troward who naturally expressed a wish to read Bergson, with whose

      writings he was wholly unacquainted. A loan of Bergson's "Creative

      Evolution" produced no comment for several weeks, when it was returned

      with the characteristic remark, "I've tried my best to get hold of him,

      but I don't know what he is talking about." I mention the remark as

      being characteristic only because it indicates his extreme modesty and

      disregard of exhaustive scientific research.

      The Bergson method of scientific expression was unintelligible to his

      mind, trained to intuitive reasoning. The very elaborateness and

      microscopic detail that makes Bergson great is opposed to Judge

      Troward's method of simplicity. He cared not for complexities, and the

      intricate minutiæ of the process of creation, but was only concerned

      with its motive power--the spiritual principles upon which it was

      organized and upon which it proceeds.

      Although the conservator of truth of every form and degree wherever

      found, Judge Troward was a ruthless destroyer of sham and pretence. To

      those submissive minds that placidly accept everything indiscriminately,

      and also those who prefer to follow along paths of well-beaten opinion,

      because the beaten path is popular, to all such he would perhaps appear

      to be an irreverent iconoclast seeking to uproot long accepted dogma and

      to overturn existing faiths. Such an opinion of Judge Troward's work

      could not prevail with any one who has studied his teachings.

      His reverence for the fundamental truths of religious faith was

      profound, and every student of his writings will testify to the great

      constructive value of his work. He builded upon an ancient foundation a

      new and nobler structure of human destiny, solid in its simplicity and

      beautiful in its innate grandeur.

      But to the wide circle of Judge Troward's friends he will best and most

      gloriously be remembered as a teacher. In his magic mind the

      unfathomable revealed its depths and the illimitable its boundaries;

      metaphysics took on the simplicity of the ponderable, and man himself

      occupied a new and more dignified place in the Cosmos. Not only did he

      perceive clearly, but he also possessed that quality of mind even more

      rare than deep and clear perception, that clarity of expression and

      exposition that can carry another and less-informed mind along with it,

      on the current of its understanding, to a logical and comprehended

      conclusion.

      In his books, his lectures and his personality he was always ready to

      take the student by the hand, and in perfect simplicity and friendliness

      to walk and talk with him about the deeper mysteries of life--the life

      that includes death--and to shed the brilliant light of his wisdom upon

      the obscure and difficult problems that torment sincere but rebellious

      minds.

      His artistic nature found expression in brush and canvas and his great

      love for the sea is reflected in many beautiful marine sketches. But if

      painting was his recreation, his work was the pursuit of Truth wherever

      to be found, and in whatever disguise.

      His life has enriched and enlarged the lives of many, and all those who

      knew him will understand that in helping others he was accomplishing

      exactly what he most desired. Knowledge, to him, was worth only what it

      yielded in uplifting humanity to a higher spiritual appreciation, and to

      a deeper understanding of God's purpose and man's destiny.

      A man, indeed!

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