BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE 
OF 
DR. EDWARD HITCHCOCK, 
We cherish the memory of the good and wise, not because 
they are rare, for the world is full of them; they exist in 
every society and grade of society, in every business and 
profession, even in the limited circle of acquaintanceship of 
every respectable person. But we cherish the memory of 
the wise and good, because it is dear to us, because we have 
been taught, encouraged, aided, cheered, blessed, and en- 
nobled by them ; and their memory is a continuation of their 
living words and deeds, and we can make it an heirloom for 
our children. A man to be remembered is a man to be 
spoken of. Even in the most barbarous aboriginal stages of 
the history of mankind, men here and there appeared, whose 
biographies, could they be written, the world could make 
good use of. In our own days of high civilization, almost 
every active life deserves a record. But the law of natural 
selection rules in literature also, and the struggle for posthu- 
mous fame, like the struggle for animal life, is crowned only 
in the persons of the best competitors. One of these favored 
few we celebrate this evening. 
A man of religion, a man of science; in both, a docile stu- 
dent and an expert teacher; in both, enthusiastic and self- 
sacrificing ; in both, gentle, persuasive, affectionate, sympa- 
thetic; in both, shackled by traditions which he both feared 
and hated to break, yet vigorously holding up his shackles 
