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the innumerable special plans and efforts to raise funds, build cabi- 

 nets, and make scientific collections, he has published to the world 

 more than twenty books, of all sizes, from small duodecimos to large 

 quartos, besides innumerable articles in the daily, weekly, and quar- 

 terly literary, scientific, or theological journals, amounting in all to 

 eight thousand pages. Several of these books, besides numerous 

 editions in this country, have been republished in Europe, and won 

 for him a world-wide reputation." — (Thus far chiefly in the words of 

 Prof. Tyler.) 



But after all. Dr. Hitchcock was not so much a great genius, or a 

 great savant, as a great and good man. 



There are two characteristic and salient traits in his scientific his- 

 tory, to which it may not be amiss to draw special attention. The 

 first is, that, like Newton, he always held science and religion 

 together, not in antagonism, but in co-ordination and harmony. The 

 second is, that, like Franklin, he combined his scientific pursuits 

 with a steady and zealous devotion to the duties and utilities of 

 practical life. 



However engrossed by his favorite geological studies, he was still 

 a Christian believer; and there was no subject of investigation of 

 greater interest with him than to trace out the harmony between 

 faith and reason, between nature and revelation, between the dis- 

 coveries of science and the disclosures of the Bible. In this he 

 differed from many scientific men of the present time ; and thus, 

 perhaps, he even lost caste in the view of some, and came to be 

 regarded as weak or narrow-minded, or deficient in scientific force 

 and freedom. Had he ignored or even assailed the Bible, his scien- 

 tific reputation, his character as an independent thinker, inquirer, 

 and discoverer, might perhaps have stood higher than they now do. 

 Besides those who think that modern discoveries and the "positive 

 philosophy," have at length demolished the Bible, there are many 

 more who think that, at least, science has nothing at all to do with 

 the Bible, either for it or against it. 



Here we find two extreme parties. On the one hand, too many re- 

 ligious men and religious teachers are in the habit of denying and 

 anathematizing science, or treating it with vituperation and scorn, as 

 if it were the natural enemy of Christianity, the fountain of error and 

 infidelity, of impiety and atheism. And on the other hand, scientific 

 men have by no means been wanting, who have been ready, on every 

 occasion, to make a thrust at the Christian Scriptures, showing up 

 their alleged blunders and scientific ineptitudes ; or, ignoring their 



