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We mention only one article more which came from his pen, — his 

 essay published in the Biblical Repository for January, 1843, entitled 

 " Benevolence and Selfishness," in which he discusses the questions of 

 the ultimate motives of a finite being, and the end of God in the crea- 

 tion of the world. This essay, written partly in explanation and cor- 

 rection of the views of Jonathan Edwards in his work on the " End 

 of the Creation," does great honor, as we think, to his metaphysical 

 capacity. 



Daniel Lord was born at Stonington, Connecticut, September 23, 

 1795. 



In his early infancy his father, Dr. Daniel Lord, removed to the 

 city of New York, where he established himself as physician and 

 druggist. The subject of our notice, being an only child, found his 

 chief associates among his father's friends, men of years and experience, 

 and sometimes of rough adventure, — physicians, merchant-traders, 

 and sea-captains, in whose conversation the observant child found am- 

 ple food for thought and incentives to future action. 



At school he acquired an excellent education, embracing the classical 

 languages and French, then almost the only modern language which was 

 recognized as an accomplishment. At the age of fifteen he entered 

 Yale College, at that time under the charge of Dr. Dvvight, and was 

 graduated second in his class in 1814. From College he went to the 

 Law School at Litchfield, Connecticut^, whence he returned in 1816 

 to New York, and continued his legal studies in the office of the late 

 Mr. George Griffin, then, and for many years afterwards, one of the 

 most prominent lawyers of the State. He was called to the bar in 

 1818, and from that time until within a few weeks of his death, his life 

 was exclusively devoted to his professional duties. 



Success came slowly. But no discouragement was permitted to 

 check his industrious pursuit of professional learning, and in those early 

 years of patient, though often disheartened, labor he amassed the legal 

 knowledge and secured the intellectual discipline which were the 

 guaranty of his ultimate success. 



The habits of thorough research and faithful application thus ac- 

 quired, united with his vigorous abilities and his commanding moral 

 traits, obtained at length their appropriate reward, and placed him in 

 the front rank of his profession, at a time when the Bar of New York 

 was made illustrious by men whose names will ever be conspicuous in 

 the history of American jurisprudence. 



