ity in Science," however, are embodied many of his views on philosophy and 

 religion ; and even in such a purely technical work as the Analytic Me- 

 chanics crop out references to spiritual things. He has, says ex-President 

 Hill, "too much intellectual honesty to conceal any of his views." Starting 

 with the idea that force resides in the will, he concludes, through the con- 

 sciousness of freedom and efficiency in himself, that motion is a manifestation 

 of force ; and the conception of force outside of himself leads him to a 

 belief in an all-powerful and conscious will which is the seat of that force. 

 " Every portion of the material universe," writes Professor Peirce, "is per- 

 vaded by the same laws of mechanical action which are incorporated into the 

 very constitution of the human mind." The universe, then, was made for 

 the instruction of man. With this belief he approached the study of natural 

 phenomena not in the spirit of a critic, but reverently in the mood of a sym- 

 pathizing reader; and the lesson he reads is, "There is but one God, and 

 science is the knowledge of Him." . . . 



FROM THE BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, OCT. 7. 



PROFESSOR PEIRCE was a scientific man who had that noblest and most 

 valuable and productive of gifts, the scientific imagination. Learning did not 

 choke up, but watered, the springs of original thought in him. No surer 

 mark of rare genius can be named. Mathematics were employed by him to 

 clarify the profoundest delvings into the mysteries of mind and the most 

 exalted speculations upon religious beliefs. He could grasp instantly and 

 hold firmly the most general conception of every thing and any thing ; and 

 his mind was of that genial, fervid kind, that is open and impressible on all 

 sides, and did open with pleased wonder and curiosity to every thing in 

 nature, art, and society, as well as science. His lectures here last winter on 

 " Ideality in Science " displayed well the highest and noblest characteristics 

 of his mind ; and it is pleasant to remember that he saw and knew that they 

 were appreciated. His active service in the University and in his chosen 

 field of science was finished ; but the influence of his presence was some- 

 thing that will be missed, and leave a void not to be filled. Long may it be 

 ere the same must be said of the distinguished men of his generation who 



