640 JOHN WESLEY^ TO WELL. 



was atfir.st cither not appreciated or ini.sunder.stood. Tlie value of hi.s 

 anthropologic philosoph}^, though now widely appreciated, was recoo-- 

 nized but slowl}^ outside the sphere of his personal iutiuence. His 

 philosophic writings belong to a field in which thought has ever found 

 language inadequate, and are for the present, so far as nia}^ be judged 

 from the review of "Truth and Error," largely misunderstood. Ad- 

 mitting myself to be of those who fail to understand nnich of his 

 philosophy, I do not therefore condemn it as worthless, for in other 

 fields of his thought events have proved that he was not visionary, but 

 merel}' in advance of his time. 



To the nation he is known as an intrepid explorer, to a wide public 

 as a conspicuous and cogent advocate of reform in the laws affecting 

 the development of the arid \yest, to geologists as a pioneer in a new 

 province of interpretation and the chief organizer of a great engine 

 of research, to anthropologists as a leader in philosophic thought and 

 the founder, in Amei'ica, of the new regime. 



