id="citation35"/>[35] that great men have long boyhoods.  This was certainly true of him, though I should rather describe as youthful the delightful qualities that never faded out of his nature.  It is, I believe, the correct thing to speak of the “golden dreams of youth,” and if by this hackneyed phrase we mean a keenly imaginative outlook, a hopefulness with a certain dash about it, a generous courage—tinged with romance—then Francis Galton had undying youth.  And this makes his seriously measured progress in eugenics all the more worthy of our admiration.

In one of the Macmillan articles he wrote: “Many plan for that which they can never live to see.  At the hour of death they are still planning.”

It was thus that Francis Galton died, and as year after year we meet together on February 16th, let us think of him and his plannings with affection and respect.