His sincerity was beyond question.  However much one might differ from him in opinion, at least one never doubted his profound faith and complete devotion to truth.  His guileless nature was beyond ungenerous suspicions and selfish ambitions.  He walked calmly upon his way wrapped in the majesty of his great thoughts, oblivious to the vexations of the world’s cynicism.  Charity and reverence for the indwelling spirit marked all his human relations.  Tolerance of the opinions of others, benevolence and tenderness dwelt in his every word and act.  Yet his careful consideration of others did not paralyze the strength of his firm will or his power to strike hard blows at wrong and error.  The search for truth, to which his life was devoted, was to him a holy quest.  That he could and would lay a lance in defence of his opinions is evidenced in his writings, and has many times been demonstrated to the discomfiture of assailing critics.  But his urbanity was a part of himself and never departed from him.

Not to destroy but to create was his part in the world.  In developing his philosophy he built upon the foundation of his predecessors.  No good and true stone to be found among the ruins of the past, but was carefully worked into his superstructure of modern thought, radiant with spirituality, to the building of which the enthusiasm of his life was devoted.

To one who has studied Judge Troward, and grasped the significance of his theory of the “Universal Sub-conscious Mind,” and who also has attained to an appreciation of Henri Bergson’s theory of a “Universal Livingness,” superior to and outside the material Universe, there must appear a distinct correlation of ideas.  That intricate and ponderously irrefutable argument that Bergson has so patiently built up by deep scientific research and unsurpassed profundity of thought and crystal-clear reason, that leads to the substantial conclusion that man has leapt the barrier of materiality only by the urge of some external pressure superior to himself, but which, by reason of infinite effort, he alone of all terrestrial beings has succeeded in utilizing in a superior manner and to his advantage:  this well-rounded and exhaustively demonstrated argument in favour of a super-livingness in the universe, which finds its highest terrestrial expression in man, appears to be the scientific demonstration of Judge Troward’s basic principle of the “Universal Sub-conscious Mind.”  This universal and infinite God-consciousness which Judge Troward postulates as man’s sub-consciousness, and from which man was created and is maintained, and of which all physical, mental and spiritual manifestation is a form of expression, appears to be a corollary of Bergson’s demonstrated “Universal Livingness.”  What Bergson has so brilliantly proven by patient and exhaustive processes of science, Judge Troward arrived at by intuition, and postulated as the basis of his argument, which he proceeded to develop by deductive reasoning.