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antisin, on -which he crawls, and which lie imagines bears all the fruit, 

 and gives all the value to the tree. * * * The Reformation, as they 

 take it, originated in the divine plan for furnishing a nursery for sectarian 

 Aphides." 



His native fondness for speculative truth, together with his studies in 

 connection with theology, which, from the standpoint he accepted, almost 

 necessarily involved the study of philosophy, prepared the way for his last 

 position. Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy in the University 

 of Pennsylvania, to which he was elected in the year 1868 ; the subject of 

 Logic having been added to it in 1874. In some of the articles of the 

 "Conservative Reformation," he shows his large acquaintance with the 

 foremost philosophers of the English and Scotch schools, such as Mill, 

 Hamilton and others ; and his fondness for studies of this kind, led him 

 to publish an edition of Fleming's Vocabulary of Philosophy, eight years 

 before he was elected to the post of professor. If we mistake not, the 

 attention of some of the Board of Trustees was first directed to him, on 

 account of his prominence among the Lutheran pastors in Philadelphia, 

 and thus he was elected trustee in 1866, to represent the Lutheran Church, 

 and the ability there displayed, and the acquaintance made with its mem- 

 bers, and especially with Dr. Stille, the Provost of the Institution, to whom 

 it owes so much, his warm personal friend, shortly afterwards elevated him 

 to the responsible position he occupied in it, which, with other additional 

 duties and offices, he continued to discharge and to hold until his death. 



The department of Philosophy was the chief one, in which such volumes 

 as Hamilton's Metaphysics, Berkeley's Philosophy, Whewell's Morality, 

 Butler's Analogy, constituted the text books, which made the basis of his 

 instruction, and through which he exerted a wide and lasting influence on his 

 pupils. For the use of his department he edited Berkeley, and enriched it 

 with notes of great value, from all the difierent schools of philosophy among 

 Christian nations, which appeared in 1874 ; and at the same time repub- 

 lished in the same way, with a very learned introduction, Ulrici's Strauss. 

 Through these publications, and his lectures to his classes, from year to 

 year, his reputation as a philosopher became as great in our land as in the 

 department of theology. He was frequently appealed to as the highest 

 authority in questions of a philosophical nature, and it was easy to antici- 

 pate from the instructions of his able and excellent father, and his own 

 subsequent studies in theology, what position he would take in this vast 

 and intricate field of speculation. These two things dominated liis views. 

 Philosophy had been settled in his theological studies, for we find the 

 principles of Butler, Berkeley and Hamilton, presenting salient points in 

 these earlier investigations. He was, as we might have expected, from 

 such antecedents, an "Idealistic Realist," to quote the words of one of 

 his favorite pupils, who understood well his views, and a philosopher of de- 

 cided Christian character. It was his great aim to infuse these princi- 

 ples into the minds of the students of the University whom he instructed 

 in successive classes for almost fifteen years, and upon whom he left tlie 



