550 CHARLES CARROLL EVERETT. 



capacity was admirable and duly appreciated, but Bowdoin was at the 

 time going through a financial crisis, which caused its governing board 

 to be more than ordinarily anxious as to a strict interpretation of their 

 trusts. A large endowment had recently been secured upon distinct 

 declarations that Bowdoin was " of the Orthodox Conaresational denom- 

 ination." Dr. Everett had been brought up in the orthodox faith of his 

 mother, but his father was already known as an avowed Unitarian, and 

 his own views were inclining more and more in that direction. On this 

 ground his appointment as Professor, twice made by the Trustees, was 

 rejected by the Overseers, and thus his bent towards theological study 

 definitely determined. He entered the Harvard Divinity School, was 

 graduated there in 18o9, and at once entered upon his first and only 

 pastorate at Bangor, Maine. Ten years later, in 18G9, he was called to 

 be a professor at Cambridge, and in 1878 was made Dean of the Faculty 

 of Divinity. On the 14th of February, 1871, he was elected a Fellow 

 of the American Academy. 



These are the brief outlines of a life singularly filled with varied 

 activities, yet passed within the narrow limits of a remote parish and 

 an academic position. As a pastor. Dr. Everett left upon his parish- 

 ioners an equal impression as preacher and as man. His first passion 

 was scholarship, but his was a scholarship that did not cut off its votary 

 from human sympathy. His preaching, cast always in philosophic 

 form, was yet in a high degree " practical." It addressed itself to the 

 highest instincts, and sought to direct these by a principle of reason. 

 In the trying times of the Civil War his voice gave no uncertain sound, 

 and he was sought by his fellow-citizens as their orator on many an 

 occasion of civic discussion or commemoration. 



The removal to Cambridge gave to Dr. Everett full scope for the 

 literary and speculative tastes which had been developing in Bangor. 

 The "Science of Thought," first published in 1869, was his introduction 

 to the world of technical scholarship. It was a fresh and individual 

 attempt to present, on the lines of the new Hegelian thought, the funda- 

 mental processes of the human reason. It attracted wide attention, and 

 became for many their first inspiration to clear and rational thinking. 

 At Cambridge, Dr. Everett's activity was largely absorbed in his regular 

 duties of teaching and administration. His instruction took naturally 

 the form suggested by the nature of his mind. Never, probably, was 

 there any teaching of theology less conventional or, in the narrow sense, 

 less "academic" than his. Theology was to him not a system fixed in 

 forms that could be handed on from master to pupil ; it was the inter- 



