720 MEMOIR OF GUYOT. 



Massachusetts board of education. Through his wealth of ideas, not 

 self-efibrt, he secured the several high positions occupied by him in the 

 country. 



Guyot was a man of devoted friendships. He manifested this deeply 

 in his tribute to his old teacher, Carl Kitter, and in that to his con)pa- 

 triot, Agassiz, There was no limit to his good-will. Children of his 

 acciuaintauce knew this, and all who had the privilege of intercourse 

 with him. On the 7th of November, 1864, he writes from Princeton, 

 " I have bought the house in which I live, and my care has been to 

 prepare and shape the garden for the next season according to my taste. 

 A quiet green retreat to study and write, and good friends visiting me 

 in it and tilling it with the warm rays of affectionate friendship, is an 

 ideal for which, if realized, I should heartily thank God." 



Guyot was a fervently religious man, living as if ever in communion 

 with his heavenly parent; a Christian, following closely in the foot- 

 steps of his Master. His search into nature's phenomena and laws was 

 a search for divine truth and a divine purpose. His field-notes of 1850 

 contain the entry : "On n'est fort qu'avec la v6nt6, et ce que m'importe 

 c'est de I'avoir de mon c6t6. Dieu salt que je la desire avant tout, et 

 il me fera la grace de la reconnaitre." In his trip to Europe in 1861, 

 he went as a delegate from the Presbyterian Church of America to the 

 convention of the Evangelican Alliance which met that year in Geneva. 

 He writes from Paris under date of October 24, just before his return, 

 ol his " great i)leasure in attending, in that old stronghold of Protest- 

 ant faith, the large and exceedingly interesting meeting," and in wit- 

 nessing the " grand spectacle ot so many sympathizing Christians from 

 all quarters of Christendom uniting in the services with perfect free- 

 dom and unanimity." And then he shows his kindly nature in allu- 

 sions to '' the testimonies of love and true friendship" which had greeted 

 him everywhere in his journey through Europe and the laud of his 

 youth, and in expressions of thankfulness " for those old affections" and 

 those "deep sympathies which are destined, by their very nature, to 

 outlive our mortal frames." 



His Neuchatel pupil, Mr. Faure, well observes : " He cared little for 

 renown, but much for the study of nature and for the education of man." 

 As fellow-students, we have special reason to admire in Guyot — as he 

 wrote of Humboldt — " that ardent, devoted, disinterested love of nature 

 which seemed, like a breath ot life, to pervade all his acts; that deep 

 feeling of reverence lor truth so manifest in him which leaves no room for 

 selfish motives in the pursuit of knowledge, and finds its highest reward 

 in the possession of truth itself." 



Arnold Guyot died at Princeton on the 8th of February, 1884. Funeral 

 services were held in the church, where the officers and students of the 

 college and other friends were gathered with the relatives of the de- 

 ceased, and excellent memorial discourses were pronounced by Eev. 

 Horace Hinsdale and Dr. James Murray, dean of the college. His re- 

 mains lie buried in the Princeton cemetery. 



