Excerpt from Studies in Plant and Organic Chemistry and Literary Papers
The are of Helen Abbott Michael's life swept through several fields of human activity, in each of which she showed remarkable ability and achieved unusual success. Versatility, how ever brilliant, is often a dangerous gift, leading to a scattering of energies and to practical failure; but she had great power of concentration, and realized, as few have, the necessity of systematic application. She was not led by her manifold talents into desultory or spasmodic expenditure of energy, but having deliberately chosen a path which seemed to offer her opportunities of usefulness, she was not content to abandon it until she had followed it to a profitable ending. Nor, even after she had proceeded to another department of work, did she lose her interest in that from which she had passed. She assimilated all that was best in every branch of knowledge that she took up, and her symmetrically developed character proved that her attainments were not made for selfish ends. Her altruism was ever apparent.
Certain marked qualities of hers deserve commemoration. Lovely in person, graceful in figure, she preserved a charming simplicity and modesty. She was wholly lacking in self-consciousness. Her association with men of science and her own keen zest in subjects of scientific import gave to her conversation a note of deep seriousness; but she had a natural play of wit, and she was quick to see the ludicrous aspect of any question. Broad and liberal in her ideas, she displayed a genuine sympathy with all phases of thought, scientific and religious. She had made a special study of the plastic arts, and her diaries are full of brief and always pointed criticisms and appreciations of the paintings, sculptures, and beautiful buildings that she studied, even while making her specialty of chemical or medical investigations.
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