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affected his future life. Dr. Henry was eminent in physical 

 science, and the assistant-secretary, Dr. Baird, was "great in 

 birds and reptiles." Philip's knowledge of mollusca was 

 therefore peculiarly valuable, as there were large collections 

 at the Institution awaiting arrangement. Dr. Henry asked 

 him to devote a few months to this object, and he promised 

 to learn the wishes of his friends at Warrington. In the 

 mean while, he spent a week in studying the museum. He 

 was greatly interested in learning the working of the Insti- 

 tution, and the successful efforts of Dr. Henry to give it a cos- 

 mopolitan character ; but he found his host, though a kind and 

 religious man, very conservative on the slavery question. " He 

 came into my room one evening, and talked to me on slavery. 

 To whom I spoke out, and repeated a little of my Southern 

 experience. He was very much surprised that I had come 

 to no harm, and considered that a person with such strong 

 feelings as I had ought not to go South. So the mere common 

 feelings of humanity are considered in the North so 'strong/ 

 and in the South so 'dangerous!' I had to walk about the room 

 to keep the peace while I was talking with him ; and he was 

 evidently surprised at any one, non-political, thinking it such a 

 great matter." 



At Baltimore (which he next visited) he called on Arch- 

 bishop Kenrick, to whom he had an introduction from Bishop 

 Fitzpatrick : he told Philip of the Oblates (who offered them- 

 selves to God) founded by M. Joubert, in 1828, to train young 

 females of colour. Philip went to these coloured " Sisters of 

 Providence," and made inquiries respecting their pupils, many 

 of whom were slaves. Thence he travelled to Antioch College, 

 Yellow Springs, Ohio, by the remarkable railroad which crosses 

 the Alleghany Mountains. This college had been founded by 

 the " Christians;" but when it was involved in financial diffi- 

 culties, the Unitarians consented to support it as an unsec- 

 tarian college. The eminent Horace Mann, to whom the 

 schools of Massachusetts had been so greatly indebted when 

 he was Secretary for Education, and who was afterwards a 

 Free Soil (Anti-slavery) member of Congress, was its president : 



