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estimates a man by its own standard; the intell. for his intel. 
products; the religious for his fervor or good works; the 
econom. for his possessions. But the intell. will die of unbel. 
and despair, the economic of losses and combats, the reHgious 
only can survive because it carries the hope of Faith." 
"How much more readily men hunt in packs, than singly, 
shows that the wolf is not yet banished from our nature. Each 
grade of men hunts according to his level; the lower after 
those who commit ofifences against person and property; an- 
other class those who have violated the rules of social observ- 
ance; the religious w^orld against what they suppose to be 
(often erroneously) false doctrine." 
"If the devil is let loose for a thousand years it will not be 
the fault of the truth, but of those who abuse it. Just as civil- 
ization vanished so soon as Christian mercy took the place 
of heathen intellect through the abuse of it, by rulers and 
people. And the gospel of evolution is a new gift of the love 
of God to man ; may he not abuse it as of old." 
"We may perceive by logical succession in five minutes 
what ages of experiment have cost." 
"There is a time when motives have their origin in a state 
of indifference to the matter in question; then we originate a 
motive by attention to knowledge.: then free-will enters." 
Of co?iscioiisness. 
"Creation, the perpetual astonishment of the universe to all 
ages." 
In 1870-71, on becoming a member, of the A. N. S., of 
Philadelphia, the present writer first made the acquaintance of 
the subject of this sketch, and formed a friendship with him 
that lasted till that sad April morning in 1897, which deprived 
American science of one of its most brilliant ornaments. This 
friendship grew rapidly in the years immediately following its 
inception, owing to certain controversies in the A. N. S. and 
the American Philosophical Society wherein it appeared to the 
writer that Cope was the victim of injustice. 
For many years before the death of the present w-riter's 
father, Prof. John F. Frazer, in 1872, the informal 
Sunday evening meetings at his house of some of 
