PROFESSOR \'Ui< 7/o H' .-1 .N 



by their fruits. There is on all hands a growing repng- 



to invoke the Kiipernatmal in accounting for the 

 phenomena of human life; an,! jhtful minds just 



referred to, finding no truce of evi<: favor of any 



origin, are driven to seek in tin- interaction of social 

 forces the genesis and development of man's moral imturv. 

 If they succeed in theii , 1 think they are sure 



to succeed social duty will be raised to a higher level of 

 siirnilieanee and the deepening sense of social duty will, it 

 is to be hoped, lessen, if not obir . strife- 



heartburninjjs which now beset and disfigure our social 

 life. Toward this great end it behoves us one and all to 

 work; and devoutly wishing its consummation, I have 

 the honor, ladies and gentlemen, to bid you a friendly 

 farewell. 



C1IA1TKK \\.\\ II. 

 PROFESSOR VIRCHOW AND EVOLUTIO 



THIS WORLD of ours has, on the whole, been an inclem- 

 ent region for the growth of natural truth; but it may be 

 that the plant is all the hardier for the bondings and 

 bu nVtings it has undergone. The torturing of a shrub, 

 within certain limits, strengthens it. Through the strug- 

 gles and passions of the brute, man reaches his estate; 

 through savagery and barbarism his <-i\ ili/.ation; and 



_jh illusion and persecution his knowledge <>f nature. 



ling that of his own frame. The bias toward natural 

 truth must have been strong to have withstood and over- 

 come sing forces. Feeling appeared in the world 



: and thoughts, conceptions, a 1 

 founded on emotion, had, before the dawn .f .- 

 taken rot in man. Such thought-. 

 creeds must ha deep and general iraat; othi 



their growth conld not have been so luxur: their 



abiding p- This general n.-ed i i 



for th 



< of a easte. whose Vocation it WHS U> Call 



mystery of life and i' ridings, and ; 



: habitation to th- 



aroused. Kven the suvaffe lived, not b\ In. a-l a'.oi,,-. but 

 in a mental world |MMipled with formn answering to bis 



