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was fifty-eight years old, that he gave to the world the first 
edition of his book, “ Religion of Geology and its Connected 
Sciences,” while his book of “ Religious Truth Illustrated 
from Science” did not appear until six years later, when he 
was sixty-four years old. Of these and other works to effect 
an impossible harmonization of the developments of modern 
science with those of the ancient imagination others would 
speak to better purpose. 
By his early personal devotion to field-work, — by his long 
and successful college instruction of successive classes of 
young men,—by the purity and simplicity of his personal 
nature, which roused no jealousy and excited no suspicion, 
—pby his cheerful, modest, but enthusiastic publication at all 
times of every new fact which he observed, and every new 
idea which facts observed gave birth to, — and by his ready 
concurrence in every useful scientific enterprise, Edward 
Hitchcock shines a star of first magnitude in the heaven of 
American Science. 
Do you expect me now to speak of his religion? I am 
not capable of the task. I hold it true that the Christian is 
a higher type of man than the Savant. His theology I 
reckon as of no account: it is his Christianity that crowns 
his brows with light, and arms his hands with power. He 
may be a Unitarian, as Edward Hitchcock was in early life, 
or he may return, as Edward Hitchcock did in after years, 
to the Orthodox notions of his fathers: it makes less differ- 
ence than people judge of it. Science will settle all those 
discussions in good time. But no amount of natural science 
will stand a man instead of faith in a higher law and an in- 
visible world. No zeal for science will compensate for the 
lack of temperance, charity, and truth towards our brother 
man. It was the hold he had upon the Christian heaven 
that made this man, working among us like a brother, walk 
