 Still onward, however, boiling down like Aristotle and the maple-syrup makers, a thousand gallons of facts to a half-pint of principles; or, to change the figure, bringing order into a few of life's storage closets, discovering there some garments which still have good wear in them, and persuading my students to wrap this rainment about their intellectual nakedness.All of which, as Augustine says, is "a great task and a difficult, but God is our helper.Although a classicist by training, Pease was also "an outstanding amateur field botanist" and "it is Professor Pease's work in New England botany for which he will be especially remembered.