Let me write now as the spirit moves me, and as memories crowd the mind, about a good man through and through, and a citizen of incomparable quality. He was a good, reliable, interesting and necessary friend for nearly fifty years. Our lives did not run together every day or every week but Makepeace was there, he could be called upon, he was instructive in detecting pretentiousness and uncovering fallacy, he set the standard of how “to live in truth”. Once when real trouble loomed in my life for a while he was one of the first at my door, his presence and support strongly and calmly assuring when confidence was shaky and the future uncertain. What is completely and firmly upright is easy to lean upon.
