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veal himself, they receive with humility and gratitude 

 those truths which human understanding could never 

 have attained. Away then with the ungenerous 

 aspersion, and let bigotry confess that the door of 

 true philosophy opens directly into the temple of true 

 religion. 



To Wistar, philosophy was the handmaid of reli- 

 gion — she elevated his soul and warmed his aflfec- 

 tions. 



After loving God with all our heart, the next great 

 commandment is to love our neighbour as ourself. 

 Were I asked to point out the most prominent fea- 

 ture in Wistar's character, 1 should answer, without 

 hesitation, benevolence. It was a feeling which seems 

 never to have forsaken him, beginning, as it ought, 

 with his own family, and extending to the whole 

 human race. Nor was it that useless sympathy which 

 contents itself with its own sensations. His chasity 

 was active, his hand ever seconding the feelings of 

 his heart. Next to religious obligations, and the in- 

 violable sanctity of truth, he impressed on the minds 

 of his children the duty of abstaining from wounding 

 the feelings of any human being. And he made 

 them frequently repeat the precept of our Saviour, 

 '< love one another." Even his person gave evidence 

 of philanthropy — his eye beamed good will, and his 



