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ignorant and too often unappreciative trustees. Such views were 
embraced in a lecture entitled Auhistocracy, or Too Much Popular | 
Government. This was first delivered at Mattoon, Ill., Dee. 4, 
1871. It appeared in the Mattoon Journal of Jan. 6, 1872. The 
lecture, as may well be imagined, created considerable excitement, 
as it went point blank against the short-sighted, material selfishness 
of the rabble, and the aspirations of the self-seeking demagogues 
who lead them. The lecture was, however, rewritten and delivered,. 
March 13, before the +‘‘Jetfersonian Society” of the Law Depart- 
ment of the University of Michigan. 
1872. A series of articles adapted to the NSuwuday School 
Journal were published in that periodical in 1872, and subse- 
quently were amplified into a volume entitled Reconciliation of 
Nerence and Religion, We was this year vice-president of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science; and poet 
for the twenty-fifth anniversary of his college class. On the latter 
occasion he delivered a very touching and melancholy, though 
perhaps appropriate, poem, which is.one of the rare occasions on 
which he allowed the outer world, which knew him chiefly by his 
scientific contributions, to have a glimpse of the inmost recesses of 
his heart. Here he poured out his grief *in an impersonal way, 
in beautifully flowing metre—of which there are also numerous- 
other examples scattered through his diary and his record books. 
1873. He experienced a severe trial, on leaving, in 1873, the 
University of Michigan, and accepting the responsible position of 
chancellor of Syracuse University. The step was long debated, 
and he could scarcely bring himself to abandon all the ties which 
bound him to Ann Arbor and the State of Michigan. He had 
heretofore firmly resisted the personal solicitations of various 
committees to enter upon what they, with the world in general. 
regarded as ‘a wider field.” But now the representations of the 
authorities of Syracuse University were to the etfect that the insti- 
tution was in rapid progress of endowment, and had already : 
productive capital of $650,000, and that, as it was his scientific 
reputation which had attracted them to him, they wished him not 
to discontinue his relation to the scientific world. His salary 
would be more than double what he was receiving from the Univer- 
sity of Michigan, and he would not have to be worried with the 
financial affairs of the endowment, since there was a salaried 
“He had lost three of his children by early death. 
