1871.] 201] [Carey. 
manner he procured the translation (again by Mr. Matile) and the publi- 
sation for liberal distribution, of Chastel’s ‘‘Charity of the Primitive 
Churches ;’? and also the republication of “The Race for Riches,’’ by 
William Arnot, of Glasgow, with a corroborative preface and notes, by 
himself supplied. 
This would be the place for giving special attention to that long and 
varied catalogue of his own contributions to the literature of political 
economy, finance, charity, and Christian ethics, in the form of pamphlets 
and essays, and other articles in the reviews, periodicals and newspapers - 
With that detail, however, 1 willnot here task myself nor use the passing 
hour of your time, preferring to append hereto a list of his works as full 
and complete as I have been able to make it. Mr. Colwell, as his family 
inform me, neither collected nor registered these productions, as a conse- 
quence of which my summary of them by their titles is necessarily in- 
complete, although not otherwise incorrect. 
His labors of mind and pen, his endeavors, services, and subsidies in 
aid of the establishment and extension of collegiate education ; his per- 
sonal pressure upon all who were in the way of forwarding the great en- 
terprise ; his donations and legacies, all had this one grand leading aim— 
the propagation of sound doctrine in social duty, and its enforeement in 
the education not only of our scholars, but also of the reading people of 
our great community. To that object he dedicated his library in giving 
it to the University of Pennsylvania. Anxious to make the gift more 
effective, he coupled the grant, in his deed of trust, with a condition that 
required the endowment of a chair of social science ; but his family, 
knowing his intention that the donation should in no event prove a fail- 
ure, has waived the present performance of the condition, in the well 
warranted expectation that in good time it will be carried out. 
With the like intent he labored long for the establishment of a profes- 
sorship in the Theological Seminary of Princeton, an idea that, with the 
assistance of others in great measure brought to contribute by his own 
perseverance and his liberal advances, has now been carried into full effect. 
“His works do follow him ’’—the inauguration, on the 27th of September 
last, of a professorship of ‘Christian Ethics and Apologetics,’ in its 
promise fulfilling one of the dearest wishes of his heart. 
What Mr. Colwell intended by the establishment of a chair of Christian 
Ethics, in Princeton, and what he regarded as the chief object of a chair 
of Social Science in the University of Pennsylvania, can scarcely be mis- 
understood if his own writings be studied for their ruling sentiment and 
leading purpose. Cultivating political economy as a theory of benefi- 
cenee, he wrote his most elaborate and voluminous work upon the credit 
system, embracing therein all the agencies and instruments employed in 
foreign trade and domestic commeree, and gave a vast amount of time and 
thought to the literature of these several subjects in all their branches ; 
but through all and over all the crowning aim and purpose of his en- 
deavors stands out conspicuously, crystallized as it is in a definition of 
political economy in which, after reviewing the entire range of conflicting 
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