VIEWS OF ARNOLD GUYOT 



a complete answer. I yield, however, to it reluctantly, 

 for I have always felt a high admiration of Professor 

 Lewis. His first addresses, at Schenectady and Burling- 

 ton (Vt.), were quite favorites with me, and he showed 

 signs of having one of the best minds in the country. 

 Moreover, in this case, I ought to say that I have not 

 read Mr. Lewis's address, and that I am no judge what- 

 ever of the questions of science or minute learning in dis- 

 pute. At Cambridge, when I was in college, we had very 

 inferior men in every department of the natural sciences, 

 and the natural sciences were presented to us only as arts, 

 detached from all those moral and intellectual relations 

 which command the respect and interest the feelings 

 and awaken the imaginations of the young. All the 

 best men took an unfortunate, but, you will admit, a 

 natural pride in neglecting them, and they were not ne- 

 cessary to collegiate rank. I have often regretted this 

 since. The first person that taught me the extent of 

 our loss was the great Dr. James Marsh (I think I may 

 call him the great Dr. Marsh), of Burlington, Vt., the 

 author of the preface to Coleridge. He first presented 

 to me the position of the study of the natural world as a 

 part of a great system of education of development 

 culminating in psychology." 



It was largely under the influence of Guyot that Dana 

 continued to discuss the Mosaic cosmogony. These two 

 friends, impressed by the Bible lessons of their youth, 

 endeavored to see in the poetical expressions of the first 

 chapter of Genesis exact statements of those natural 

 phenomena which the eye of science recognizes in the 

 development of the universe. It is easy for us to see that 

 they were fettered by a mode of interpreting the Hebrew 

 Scriptures that is not now tenable, and that they were 

 supported in this method not only by the traditions of 

 early life, but also by the dominant theology of the com- 

 munities in which they dwelt. To the Mosaic cosmogony 

 Dana came back again after the publication of a volume 

 entitled Creation, which contained, in their latest and 

 fullest forms, the views of Guyot. These aspects of the 



