d him to make his home in
the island of Samoa, where he died and is buried; "His too short life,"
says Professor Saintsbury, "has left a fairly ample store of work, not
always quite equal, seldom quite without a flaw, but charming,
stimulating, distinguished as few things in this last quarter of a
century have been" (1850-1894).

STEWARD, LORD HIGH, in early times the highest office of state in
England, ranking in power next to the sovereign; hereditary during many
centuries, the office lapsed in the reign of Henry IV., and since has
been revived only on special occasions, e. g. a coronation, a trial of
a peer, at the termination of which the office is demitted, the Lord High
Steward himself breaking in two his wand of office.

STEWART, BALFOUR, physicist, born in Edinburgh; after finishing his
university curriculum went to Australia and engaged for some time in
business; returned to England; became director at Kew Observatory, and
professor of Natural Philosophy at Owens College, Manchester; made
discoveries in radiant heat, and was one of the founders of SPECTRUM
ANALYSIS (q. v.); published text-books on physics, in wide repute
(1828-1887).

STEWART, DUGALD, Scottish philosopher, born in Edinburgh, son of
Matthew Stewart; attended the High School and the University; studied one
session at Glasgow under Dr. Reid; assisted his father in conducting the
mathematical classes in Edinburgh, and succeeded Adam Ferguson in the
Moral Philosophy chair in 1785, a post, the active duties of which he
discharged with signal success for twenty-five years, lecturing on a wide
range of subjects connected with metaphysics and the science of mind; he
wrote "Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind," "Philosophical
Essays," &c.; "His writings," says Carlyle, who held him in high
veneration, "are not a philosophy, but a making ready for one. He does
not enter on the field to till it; he only encompasses it with fences,
invites cultivators, and drives away intruders; often (fallen on evil
days) he is reduced to long arguments with the passers-by to prove that
it _is_ a field, that this so highly-prized domain of his is, in truth,
soil and substance, not clouds and shadows. It is only to a superficial
observer that the import of these discussions can seem trivial; rightly
understood, they give sufficient and final answer to Hartley's and
Darwin's and all other possible forms of Materialism, the grand Idolatry,
as we may rightly