300 A Century of /Science 



that interval of a hundred and sixty years. In all 

 that time, the chief training school for the minis- 

 ters by whom the speculative minds of Massachu- 

 setts were stimulated and guided was Harvard Col- 

 lege. But it was here, too, that men eminent in 

 civic life were trained ; and among the various 

 illustrations of the type thus nurtured may be cited 

 Samuel Adams and Thomas Hutchinson, foemen 

 worthy of one another, Warren and Hancock, Jon- 

 athan Trumbull and John Adams. So far as New 

 England was concerned, the chief work in bringing 

 on the Eevolution was done by graduates of Har- 

 vard. In the convention which framed our Fed- 

 eral Constitution, three important delegates were 

 the Harvard men, Gerry, Strong, and King ; and 

 in this connection we cannot fail to recall names 

 so closely associated with our national beginnings 

 as Timothy Pickering and Fisher Ames, nor can 

 we omit the noble line of jurists from Parsons to 

 Story, and so on to Curtis, whom so many of us 

 well remember ; or, going back to that Massachu- 

 setts convention, of which the work is commemo- 

 rated in the name of Federal Street, we may single 

 out for mention the great minister and statesman, 

 type of what is best in Puritanism, Samuel West, 

 of New Bedford. Such names speak for the kind 

 of quiet, unobtrusive work that was going on in 



