paper at our General Meeting in New York. He took an active part in the 

 interesting General Meetings held at Detroit in 1875, at Saratoga in 1876-77, 

 and finally at Cincinnati in 1878, on which occasion he presided, and made 

 the address here printed. He also joined in the debates, particularly of the 

 educational section, and was foremost in all the work of that year. 



Toward the end of 1878 he brought forward in the Council a comprehen- 

 sive plan for connecting our Association with a great university, a plan for 

 which the time was not then ripe, but which is likely, in some form, to be 

 adopted hereafter, and to add materially to the opportunities of university 

 culture in America. This was a subject on which he thought and felt pro- 

 foundly, and which also much occupied the mind of Agassiz in his later 

 years. The discussions of our Department of Education in 1869-70 show 

 how the organization of American universities was viewed by these two men 

 of genius and of wide observation. . . . Professor Peirce's conception of the 

 American Social Science Association was this, that it should be a university 

 for the people, combining those who can contribute any thing original in 

 social science into a temporary academical senate, to meet for some weeks in 

 a given place and debate questions with each other, as well as to give out 

 information for the public. In this line of thought he favored, also, the 

 establishment of 'the Concord School of Philosophy, to do a similar work in 

 the speculative studies ; and he lived to see the partial realization of what he 

 foresaw in this instance. He was ready at all times, while strength lasted, to 

 co-operate in such enterprises for the intellectual and spiritual good of man- 

 kind ; and this Association owes him much for such cordial co-operation and 

 for wise counsel most modestly given. He declined to hold the titular office 

 of President, which was tendered him in 1878, but performed its duties at that 

 time, as he had before performed all the humbler duties assigned him. How 

 nobly he thought of our work, his Cincinnati Address will fully show. May 

 this Association deserve and inherit what he has predicted-for its future ! 



F. B. S. 



