68 The American Geologist. August, 1900 
It was intended to reproduce the entire childish 
journal of a voyage from Philadelphia to Boston, because 
there is a very touching interest in the occasional wise 
and cautious conclusions drawn b}' this bo)' of seven, but 
space was lacking. One is witnessing in these early 
writings the rapid growth of a mind which was destined 
to become great. It is also most instructive to note how 
accurately the eye saw and the hand learned to portray. 
There is, without question, a connection between the suc- 
cess in his chosen profession of a naturalist, and his facility 
for accurate delineation of what he sees or thinks he has 
seen. Indeed much that is false in the latter disappears in 
the attempt to represent it. Eminent students of nature are 
usually proficient in the art of delineation, as many consci- 
entious artists are conversant with the nature from which 
they draw their inspiration. 
The following memoir is a condensed digest of the larger 
one, but it is hoped that it will not entirely fail to justify 
its title, which promises an unconscious autobiography in 
the collection of the subject's writings during fifjy years. 
The dominating motive of Cope's character was reverence 
for pure religion and pure science. In his view these occu- 
pied totally different fields; were not in conflict, but on the 
contrary each was of assistance to the comprehension and 
the proper expression of the other. Yet, although he ac- 
knowledged that the human faculties called into play by 
each were different at the present time, he never abandoned 
the belief that one day they would be the same, and that in 
the progress of science the proofs of a future life and of a 
beneficent Creator and Savior would be reached. Few men 
have succeeded so well in concealing from any one 
friend or relative, however close, all sides of his multiform 
character. At his death, when his letters to many different 
correspondents were brought together, there was not one of 
those who knew him most intimately but was surprised at 
a phase of thought developed to some other which had been 
unknown to the first. His scientific friends were amazed at 
the profound religious feelings which he had always exhib- 
ited to his nearest relatives; and these at the broad views of 
social problems which he had imbibed in his intercourse 
with the world. 
