CORRESPONDENCE WITH A. GUYOT 



private character I have the kindest regard. He is a true 

 man, and if you knew what he has had to suffer from the 

 criminations of bigots, like Professor Lewis, you would 

 not wonder at his enmity to such men. He has dealt 

 with them in about the same manner as you have with 

 Professor Lewis. All the difference is that he has no 

 sympathy with their church. But I know him to be a 

 man of truth and faith. Gliddon is worse, especially in 

 his utterance, and has allowed his resentment to mislead 

 him to personalities which all his friends blame. But I 

 would rather meet a man like him, who knows as much 

 as he does about antiquity, and who cares to investigate 

 it, than any of those who shut their eyes against evidence. 

 My book proceeds to my entire satisfaction. I hope 

 to have the first volume out towards the fall. I long to 

 have you read the introduction, and if the publishers will 

 let me have a copy before the publication of the whole 

 volume, I will send it on to you. I wish it had been in 

 your hands before you wrote your second article." 



The remainder of this letter is wanting in general in- 

 terest. 



IV 



CORRESPONDENCE WITH ARNOLD GUYOT 



Guyot became a friend of Dana's soon after his arrival 

 in this country, in 1848, and the intimacy continued un- 

 broken till the death of Guyot in 1884. One of Dana's 

 sons bears the name of Arnold Guyot, and the eulogy of 

 Guyot before the National Academy of Sciences was 

 written by Dana. Respecting Guyot's Earth and Man, 

 Dana wrote : 



' Professor Guyot's Earth and Man should make part 

 of the course of preparatory or later study of every 

 American student. It gives, in brief form, broad and 

 comprehensive views of the earth's features and climates; 

 draws out, in a forcible but simple style, a vivid portrait- 

 ure of the continents and oceans, exhibiting their physical 



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