Chief Justice Marshall and Chief Justice Shaw of Massachusetts doubtless excelled him in intellectual vigor.

Chancellor Kent rivalled him as a writer upon law.

But he had no other rival among judges or commentators in this country,--few anywhere.

He was unquestionably, at the time of his death, the most famous teacher of law in the civilized world.

His associate professor, Greenleaf, was an admirable lawyer, who, before he went to Harvard, had had a great practice in Maine, and made some good arguments in the Supreme Court of the United States.