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JAMES McCOSH. 

1811-1894. 

Young to the end, through sympathy with youth. 
Gray man of learning ! champion of truth ! 
Direct in rugged speech, alert in mind, 
He felt his kinship with all human kind, 
And never feared to trace development 
Of high from low — assured and full content 
That man paid homage to the Mind, above, 
Uplifted by the "Royal Law of Love.'' 

The laws of nature that he loved to trace 
Have worked, at last, to veil from us his face; 
The dear old elms and ivy-covered walls 
Will miss his presence, and the stately halls 
His truri%pet-voice. While in their joys 
Sorrow will shadow those he called "my boys." 

Robert Bridges '79. 
JVovember 17th, 189Jf. 



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Princeton College Bulletin. 

EDITED BY THE PRESIDENT AMD MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY. 



Vol. VII. 



February. 1895. 



No. 1. 



DOCTOR McCOSH. 

The venerable ex-President of the Col- 
lege died on the sixteenth day of last 
November. He had been steadily failing 
during the summer and autumn and the 
end came peacefully and without pain. 
He is greatly missed : for while he had not 
taken a very active part in the affairs of 
the College since he resigned the Presidency 
in 1888, he continued to the last to feel a 
deep interest in the institution to which 
he had given twenty of the best years of 
his life. He never lost his enthusiasm for 
Philosophy and some of us Avill long re- 
member a meeting of the Philosophical 
Club not more than a year ago, when he 
entered into the discussions of the evening 
with his old energy and alertness. 

We shall never forget the debt which 
Princeton owes to Dr. McCosh. A great 
chapter in the history of the College was 
closed when he laid aside the burdens of 
his office and turned over the responsibili- 
ties of the Presidency to his successor. 
Beyond all question his was the most bril- 
liant administration that Princeton has 
ever had. Everything contributed to add 
to the glory of that adm lustration : the 
circumstances attending the Doctor's com- 
ing, the condition of the College when he 
came, what he was, and what he did. He 
found Princeton depleted by the war, yet 
already awakening to a new life. The 



money necessary for her equipment was 
ready and he came in time to give wise 
direction to its use. He brought to the 
service of the College, a high reputation as 
a thinker, a commanding personality, and 
ripe experience as an educator : and with 
a purpose that was never daunted he bent 
himself to the task of making Princeton 
one of the foremost seats of learning in 
America. 

The death of Dr. McCosh was the close 
of a great career. His young manhood 
was spent amid the stirring scenes con- 
nected with the disruption of the Church 
of Scotland in 1843. He was a prominent 
champion of the intuitional philosophy in 
the days when Mill and Mansel were rec- 
ognized leaders of opinion in Great Britain. 
Leaving the pastorate for a Professorship 
in Belfast, he became not only a great 
teacher of philosophy, but a public spirited 
student of educational questions. He came 
to America in the prime of manhood. As 
President of Princeton College he was 
enthusiastic, vigilant and wise. He loved 
the College. He loved his pupils. He had 
the rare gift of being able to kindle and 
keep alive in others that zeal for philo- 
sophy which was so characteristic of him- 
self He was hospitable to new ideas, yet 
zealous also for the maintenance of the 
great Christian verities that are woven into 
the entire web of our College history. He 
has placed the English-speaking world o 



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Evangelical Christendom under obligation 
to him for his defence of fundamental 
truth. To that world he was a Christian 
philosopher ; but to us he was more than 
that, he was a Christian man — a reverent 
believer in the faith of his fathers and a 
humble follower of the Saviour. May his 
successors in the great office which he 
filled with such signal success ever have 
the liberal spirit, the strong convictions 
and the Christian faith which he possessed 
in such large degree ! 

It is not diflicult to fix Dr. McCosh's 
place in philosophy. He had been a pupil 
of Chalmers, and was greatly influenced by 
Sir William Hamilton ; and though he never 
occupied a chair in a Scottish University, 
his name should really follow next to 
Hamilton's in the History of the Scottish 
philosophy. Hamilton's successors can 
hardly be said to belong to this school, 
Fraser is too much of a Berkeleyan, and 
Seth though he has returned to a position 
more akin to Reid's than the one he occu- 
pied in the days of his Hegelianism is 
apparently aiming to represent the best 
elements in the replies of Reid and Kant 
respectively to the scepticism of Hume 
rather than the traditional Scottish philo- 
sophy. 

For this infusion of German thought into 
Scotch Metaphysics, Dr. McCosh would say 
that Hamilton is in a great measure respon- 
sible, and it was the Kantian element in 
Hamilton's metaphysic that was the occa- 
sion of Dr. McCosh's first philosophical 
polemic. Dr. McCosh began his career as 
an author when he was a Free Church 
minister at Brechin, and the preface to 
the first edition of the Divine Government 
is dated 1850. It is not an uncommon 
thing for a great writer to embody an out- 
line of all his subsequent thinking in his 
first book. Later books may be more 
elaborate, learned, scientific; they may 
take greater hold upon the public : but to 
one who makes a careful study of all that 



an author has written it will very often 
appear than in a few bold statements at 
the very beginning of his career he has 
outlined the entire system which in after 
life he has elaborated with such care 
and attention to detail. The Divine Gov- 
ernment is probably not so much read 
now as it was a generation ago, but any 
one who is curious in such matters can 
easily satisfy himself that the great dis- 
tinctive ideas which Dr. McCosh laboured 
with so much zeal to inculcate are all to 
be found in a germinal form in his first 
book. We may take his classification 
of the mental faculties, his doctrine of the 
intuitions and his distribution of them 
into three groups ; his doctrine of percep- 
tion and his theory of causation as illus- 
trations of what we mean. 

The Divine Government is a synthetic 
statement of the author's whole philosophy, 
and that philosophy was a theory of the 
universe conditioned by Christian revela- 
tion. It may betaken as in some respects the 
work which is most typical of Dr. McCosh, 
though it did not represent him in the 
maturity of his powers. It was a most 
important contribution to the literature of 
religious philosophy, and served a good 
purpose in antagonizing the views pre- 
sented by Morell in his Philosophy of Re- 
ligion which was very popular at the 
time of its appearance. If we are to under- 
stand Dr. McCosh and the influence he 
has exerted, we must think of him always 
as a Christian philosopher and a defender 
of the fundamental truths that underlie 
Christianity and, indeed, all religion. Even 
his book on the Intuitions which is per- 
perhaps the best of his didactic treatises is 
really a piece of philosophical apologetic, 
and was so regarded by Dr. Shedd who 
wrote the preface to the first American 
edition. 

Whether intuitions can be " inductively 
investigated" may perhaps admit of debate ; 
but Dr. McCosh's position was well de- 



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fined, and he embodied it in the title to 
his book upon this subject. He never 
wavered in his beUef in, and his devo- 
tion to the intuitional philosophy ; and 
when in later years he presented his 
views to the public in the treatise on 
First and Fundamental Principles, he re- 
affirmed with fresh emphasis the posi- 
tions which he had taken before. It 
is not to be denied that Dr. McCosh 
repeated some of his favorite ideas in 
several of his books. This was inevitable 
in a writer so voluminous as he was. 
And herein, indeed, lies, in no small de- 
gree, the secret of the great influence 
which he exerted. He had a message for 
this generation. He would not let men 
forget it; and he succeeded through in- 
dustrious and indefatigable iteration in im- 
pressing himself upon the men of his time. 
Dr. McCosh was a controversialist. It is 
perhaps safe to say that he appears at 
his best in his controversial writings. 
He wrote in strong, direct and forcible 
English. His meaning was always plain. 
He was never dull, and there was a 
naturalness in all that he wrote that con- 
stantly brought the image of the author to 
your mind as you read the printed page. 
He was a lover of nature, and saw it with 
the discriminating look of both the poet 
and the naturalist. Sometimes, especially 
in his didactic treatises, the reader feels 
that there is just a suggestion of the ser- 
mon. But all the best qualities of his 
style are seen in his polemic writings. 
His first contention was with Hamilton in 
regard to the relativity of knowledge. 
After that he had a tilt with Mansel. In 
later years he antagonized some of Spen- 
cer's positions, especially in regard to 
ethics ; and when the celebration of the 
Kantian centenary filled the land with 
the deluge of Kantian literature Dr. Mc- 
Cosh appeared as a,n able and earnest 
opponent of the agnostic element in the 
Kantian philosophy. But perhaps the 



strongest and most effective piece of con- 
troversial work that Dr. McCosh ever did 
was his masterly Examination of Mr. J. 
S. MiWs Philosophy, being a Defence of Fun- 
damental Truth. 

Dr. McCosh, either as teacher or author, 
traversed the whole field of philosophy. 
He lectured for many years on the His- 
tory of Philosophy, and his History of the 
Scottish philosophy is the authoritative 
treatise on that subject He wrote a short 
treatise on fundamental ethical problems 
and a valuable text-book on logic. His 
text-book on Psychology, which has been 
widely used in our colleges, was one of 
the first to recognize the conclusions 
reached by men like Wundt and Fechner, 
and to embody the results of recent studies 
in physiological psychology. He had his 
own classification of the powers of the 
mind, and in spite of what Professor Ladd 
has to say against the use of the word 
" faculties " in this connection, he would 
have seen no reason, we feel sure, for 
abandoning it. He did not teach " psy- 
chology without a soul," nor did he, on 
the other hand, give us such a discussion 
of what the word " soul " stands for as we 
find in the brilliant pages of Professor 
James. But he believed in the soul as 
something that knows and remembers, is 
immortal and can be saved or lost. He 
believed in immediate knowledge through 
the senses. He was thus — to use Sir 
William Hamilton's phrase — a natural 
Realist. He defended this realistic phi- 
losophy with religious earnestness, as 
being the only sure protection against 
agnosticism. Those who speak of Dr. 
McCosh's liberality and his sympathy 
with progressive thought must also re- 
member that he was a firm believer in a 
certain type of philosophical orthodoxy, 
and that for this he was always ready to 
contend earnestly as for the faith once de- 
livered unto the saints. 

Francis L. Patton. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



By ANDREW F. WEST. 



[The information used for this notice 
comes from many sources, principally from 
members of Doctor McCosh's family, his 
pupils and friends in Great Britain and 
America, his own writings, and many scat- 
tered publications about him. This infor- 
mation has been used freely, perhaps even 
to the point of adopting some statements 
of fact and happy turns of expression with- 
out acknowledgment. Of the newspaper 
obituaries the best for his life in Scotland 
is to be found in The Scotsman of Edin- 
burgh, under date of November 19th, 1894, 
(an account drawn largely from the volume 
on Disruption Worthies published in Edin- 
burgh and London, 1881), the best for his 
Belfast life is in The Northern Whig of Bel- 
fast, November 19th, 1894, (based mainly 
upon information given by Mr. Thomas 
Sinclair of Belfast), and the best for his 
Princeton life appeared in the New York 
Tribune, November 17th, 1894. Interest- 
ing incidents of his relations to the students 
are in the New York Herald of November 
18th, 1894. A good undergraduate esti- 
mate is to be found in the Nassau Literary 
Magazine for December 1894, and another 
in the number for June 1888. There is a 
sketch by the present writer in the New 
York Observer of November 22d, 1894, and 
a briefer one in the Educational Review for 
November, 1894. An article by Professor 
Ormond appears in the Educational Review 
for February 1895. Professor Sloane is 
editing Doctor McCosh's manuscript en- 
titled " Incidents of My Life in Three Coun- 
tries,''^ soon to be published by Charles 
Scribner's Sons, New York.] 



Rarely has academic history repeated 
itself with such precision and emphasis 
as in the person of President James Mc- 



Cosh, who, though unique in his own gener- 
ation, had a real prototype in the person 
of one, though only one, of his predeces- 
sors, President John Witherspoon, the ru- 
ler of Princeton a century ago. Each of 
them was in point of ancestry a Covenanter, 
by birth a Lowland Scotchman, in his 
youth a student at the University of Ed- 
inburgh, in his young manhood a minister 
of the Church of Scotland at a crisis of its 
history, and in that crisis an important 
figure, — Witherspoon heading the opposi- 
tion to moderatism and Doctor McCosh 
helping to form the Free Church. When 
already past the meridian of life each of 
them came to America to do his greatest 
work as President of Princeton, the one 
arriving in 1768 and the other in 1868. 
Though of different degrees of eminence 
in different particulars, they were never- 
theless of fundamentally the same char- 
acter, being philosophers of reality, 
ministers of evangelical and yet 
catholic spirit, constructive and aggres- 
sive in temper, stimulating as teachers, 
stout upholders of disciplinary education, 
men of marked personal independence, of 
wide interest in public affairs and thor- 
oughly patriotic as Americans. The prin- 
ciples of college government on which 
Witherspoon acted Doctor McCosh ex- 
pressly avowed. " These principles," he 
wrote, " were full of wisdom, tact and kind- 
ness. Without knowing them till after- 
ward, I have endeavored to act on the 
same principles, but more imperfectly. 
' Govern,' said he, ' govern always, but be- 
ware of governing too much.' "* Their, 
presidencies were long and successful. Each 
lived the last twenty-six years of his life in 
Princeton, and it may be noticed as a strik- 
ing final coincidence that they passed away 
a century apart, almost to the day, — With- 
erspoon dying November 15th, 1794, and 
Doctor McCosh on November 16th, 1894. 



* John Witherspoon and his Times, Philadelphia, 1890. 



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II. 

James McCosh was born April 1st, 1811, 
at Carskeoch Farm, on the left bank of the 
" bonnie Doon," just above the village 
of Patna, some twelve miles from Ayr, 
the county town of Ayrshire. In this 
region, so fiill of inspiring Scottish mem- 
ories, his boyhood was spent, and in 
common with so many of his country- 
men who have risen to fame he received 
his first education in the parochial 
school. In 1824, when but thirteen years 
old, he entered the University of Glasgow, 
an institution already famous in the annals 
of the Scottish school of philosophy for 
the teaching of Reid and Hutcheson, — a 
fit place for the young student to begin, 
who was later to write the history of the 
Scottish School. Here he remained five 
years. In 1829 he entered the University 
of Edinburgh, coming under the influence 
of Thomas Chalmers and David Welsh in 
theology and of Sir William Hamilton in 
philosophy. He had also some strong in- 
tellectual compeers among the students of 
that time. Such, for example, were Tait, 
afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, and 
the physicist, James Thompson, brother 
of Lord Kelvin. Incidents of Doctor Mc- 
Cosh 's youth and student days formed the 
basis of many an interesting anecdote in 
his later years. Of such were his remem- 
brances as a boy of the recurring anniver- 
saries when his elders used to pledge 
with enthusiasm " the memory of Bobbie 
Burns." At other times he would dwell 
with fondness on one or another loved feat- 
ure of the home scenery of Ayrshire or the 
talk of its people. The competition for 
intellectual honors at the University formed 
another theme. Then too, the strong im- 
press of Sir William Hamilton's personality 
as well as of his teaching was one of those 
things that delighted his Princeton pupils to 
notice, especially as seen in the way he treas- 
ured some remark of his great teacher. '' Do 
you know the greatest thing he ever said 



to me ?" Doctor McCosh asked one day of 
the writer. " It was this : ' So reason as 
to have but one step between your premise 
and its conclusion.' " The syllogism uni- 
fied and turned into a rule of conduct ! 
Well might such a vigorous maxim take 
the imperative form. And how vividly 
real it made the act of reasoning seem. 
It was toward the close of his student days 
at Edinburgh that Doctor McCosh wrote 
his essay entitled " The Stoic Philosophy,^'' in 
recognition of which the University, upon 
motion of Sir William Hamilton, conferred 
upon him the degree of Master of Arts. 

III. 

In 1835 he was licensed as a minister of 
the Established Church of Scotland. To- 
ward the close of the same year he was 
elected by the members of the congrega- 
tion, minister of the Abbey church of Ar- 
broath, the " Fairport" of Sir Walter Scott's 
Antiquary, a flourishing town in Forfar- 
shire, on the eastern coast, sixteen miles 
north of Dundee. While in this parish he 
made the acquaintance of the Reverend 
Thomas Guthrie, eight years his senior, 
the minister of the neighboring parish of 
Arbilot, and later so celebrated in the Old 
Greyfriars pulpit in Edinburgh. They were 
helpful to each other in their pastoral work 
and counsel, and formed the nucleus of a 
group of ministers who met to discuss with 
earnestness the impending dangers to the 
church, consequent upon " intrusion" by 
the Crown upon congregations of ministers 
irrespective of the preference of the people. 
They promptly identified themselves with 
the view that this subjection of the Church 
to the Crown was to be brought to an end, 
advocating, as Dr. McCosh had already 
done in his Edinburgh student days, what 
was known as Non-Intrusion. In 1838 on 
the suggestion of Doctor Welsh, his former 
teacher. Doctor McCosh was appointed by 
the Crow^n to the first charge of the church 
at Brechin, a short distance from Arbroath. 



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Brechin was an attractive old cathedral 
town with a large outlying country parish. 
In this arduous charge he labored most 
assiduously in company with his colleague 
the Rev. A. L. R. Foote. Besides attend- 
ing to his stated church ministrations and 
the regular visiting of its congregation, 
he went abroad everywhere, preaching the 
Gospel in barns, kitchens and taverns, or 
in the open fields and wherever else he 
could do good* His communion roll 
gradually swelled until it included four- 
teen hundred persons. Meanwhile the 
ecclesiastical sky was darkening. . The 
Disruption of the Church of Scotland was 
impending, and when in 1843 it had be- 
come inevitable, Doctor McCosh in com- 
mon with hundreds of other ministers, 
surrendered his living. He at once pro- 
ceeded to organize in his old parish a con- 
gregation of the Free Church, into which 
over eight hundred of his former parish- 
ioners followed him. He also rendered 
great service at this crisis by organizing 
new congregations, providing them with 
preachers, raising money and getting 
sites for the erection of new churches. " A 
good horseman," says one of his best news- 
paper biographies,* " he rode long distan- 
ces from place to place and preached in 
barns, ball-rcoms or fields as was found 
necessary." In 1843 and the following year 
he was a member of one of the deputations 
appointed by the General Assembly to 
visit various i)arts of England and arouse 
Nonconformist interest in the position of 
the Free Church. In 1845 he was married 
at Brechin to Miss Isabella Guthrie, daugh- 
ter of the physician, James Guthrie, and 
niece of Thomas Guthrie, his friend in his 
early ministry at Arbroath. 



* Disruption Worthies. A Memorial of lSI,;i. Edinburgh 
and London, 1881. The sketch of Dr. McCosh, written 
by Professor George Macloekie, is found on pp. 343-848. 



IV. 

In this round of active life, with all its 
details and distractions, he kept alive his 
philosophical thinking, and in 1850 pub- 
lished at Edinburgh, his ^''Method of the 
Divine Government, Physical and MoraV^ It 
was most favorably reviewed by Hugh Mil- 
ler and commended by Sir William Hamil- 
ton. It brought him at once into prom- 
inence as a philosophic writer of force and 
clearness. The story goes that Earl Clar- 
endon, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 
sitting down to read a copy one Sunday 
morning, became so absorbed in the book 
that he missed going to church and read 
on till evening without stopping, and soon 
after offered Doctor McCosh the chair 
of logic and metaphysics in the newly 
founded Queen's College in Belfast. Doc- 
tor McCosh accepted the offer, removing to 
Belfast in 1852, and continuing there until 
he came to Princeton. His classroom was 
notable in many ways, — for his brilliant 
lecturing, his interesting method of ques- 
tioning, his solicitude for his students and 
their enthusiasm for him. Besides fulfil- 
ling his regular duties he served as an ex- 
aminer for the Queen's University of Ire- 
land, as a member of the distinguished 
Board of Examiners who organized the first 
competitive examinations for the Civil Ser- 
vice of India, and as an examiner for the 
Ferguson Scholarships, open to graduates 
of Scottish Universities.* In 1858 he vis- 
ited the principal schools and univeraities 
of Prussia, carefully acquainting himself 
with their organization and methods and 
publishing his opinions regarding them 
in 1859. It was at Belfast he brought out 
his Examination of Mr . J. S. MiW 8 Philosophy; 
Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation 
(in conjunction with Professor George 
Dickie) ; The Intuitions of the Mind, and 
The Supernatural in Relation to the Natural, 
In his church relations he was both an 



t The Scotsman, Edinburgh, Nov. I'J, 1894. 



* The Northern Whuf, Belfast, Nov. 19, 1S94. 



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active promoter of evangelical piety and 
an efficient helper in ecclesiastical coun- 
sels. He helped to organize the Ministe- 
rial Support Fund of the Irish Presbyte- 
rian Church, seeking to evoke liberality 
and self-support in view of the coming 
disendowment. In the face of much op- 
position he advocated giving up the Regium 
Donum, or state bounty the church had 
been receiving. Arguments he used in this 
discussion were afterwards influential with 
Mr. Gladstone in connection with the dis- 
establishment of the Church of Ireland. 
He advocated a system of intermediate 
schools to prepare for higher institutions 
of learning, and particularly labored for the 
great cause of a general system of national 
elementary schools. His own pupils attam- 
ed marked success in the examinations for 
the Civil Service and some of them became 
very eminent, — one of them being Sir 
Robert Hart, the present Chief of the Chi- 
nese Customs Service. He was not a man 
who could be hid, and so there is little to 
wonder at in the distinction he earned, 
whether evidenced by the respect of men 
like Chalmers, Guthrie, Hugh Miller, Sir 
William Hamilton, Dean Mansel, the 
present Duke of Argyll and Mr. Glad- 
stone, the kindly humor of Thackeray or 
the flings of Ruskin and sharp rejoinders 
of John Stuart Mill. 

V. 

Doctor McCosh paid his first visit to 
America in 1866, receiving a hearty wel- 
come. In June, 1868, he was called to the 
Presidency of Princeton. He accepted 
the call after due deliberation, and ar- 
rived at Princeton October 22d of the same 
year. The story of the low condition of 
Princeton at that time, consequent upon 
the Civil War, does not need to be told 
here. So far as equipments and numbers 
can speak, the tale is soon told. Except- 
ing a few professors' houses, there are now 
on the Campus only pix buildings which 



were owned by the College when Doctor 
McCosh arrived. They are Nassau Hall, 
the old President's (now the Dean's) 
House, the Old Chapel, the College Offi- 
ces, East College and West College. There 
were but sixteen instructors in the Faculty 
and about two hundred and fifty students. 
The institution Avas depleted, salaries were 

low, and academic standards had suffered 

. . . ' 

both in the way of scholarship and disci- 
pline. It was the low-water mark of 
Princeton's history, and the self-denial of 
the band of professors who went with the 
College through the war, has been only 
too slightly appreciated. The writer 
entered Princeton as a freshman in Janu- 
ary, 1870, when the beginnings of Doctor 
McCosh's power were being manifested. 
His influence was like an electric shock, 
instantaneous, paralyzing to opposition 
and stimulating to all who were not para- 
lyzed. Old student disorders were taken 
in hand and throttled after a hard 
struggle, out-door sports and gymnastics 
were developed as aids to academic order, 
strong professors were being added, the 
course of study was both deepened and 
widened, the ever-present energy of Doc- 
tor McCosh was daily in evidence, and 
great gifts were coming in. Every one 
felt the new life. When the Bonner- 
Marquand Gymnasium was opened, in 
1870, the student cheering was enough to 
rend the roof It was more than cheer- 
ing for the new gymnasium, — it was for 
the new era. 

VI. 

It is not possible in this sketch to tell 
the story of the twenty years from 1868 to 
1888, but the results may be indicated. 
The Campus was enlarged and converted 
into a splendid park, every detail of con- 
venience and beauty being consulted in 
the transformation. The old walks, hum- 
orously named the '' Maclean pavement," 
were replaced with something substantial, 



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grading and planting were carried out on 
an extensive scale, the drainage was re- 
modelled, and many other such things 
which seem small separately, but mean so 
much collectively, were attended to. The 
following buildings were added : The Hal- 
sted Observatory in 1869, the Gymnasium 
in 1869-70, Reunion Hall and Dickinson 
Hall in 1870, the Chancellor Green Li- 
brary and the John C. Green School of 
Science in 1873, University Hall in 1876, 
Witherspoon Hall in 1877, the Observatory 
of Instruction in 1878, Murray Hall in 
1879, Edwards Hall in 1880, the Marquand 
Chapel in 1881, the Biological Laboratory 
in 1887, and the Art Museum about the 
same time. The administrative side of 
the College was invigorated in many ways, 
a Dean being added to the executive offi- 
cering in 1883. The Faculty was grad- 
ually built up by importation of professors 
from other institutions, and afterwards by 
training Princeton men as well. Twenty- 
four of Doctor McCosh's pupils are now in 
the Faculty. The course of study was 
revised and made modern, without giving 
up the historic essentials of liberal educa- 
tion. Elective studies were introduced 
and developed, and the relating of the 
elective to the prescribed studies in one 
harmonious system was always kept in 
view. To the old academic course of four 
years, leading to the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts, courses leading to the degree of 
Bachelor of Science and Civil Engineer 
were added, and graduate courses leading 
to the university degrees of Doctor of 
Philosophy and Doctor of Science were 
organized. The entrance requirements 
were improved in quality and were ex- 
acted with more firmness. The interior 
relations of the various departments of 
study to each other and to the general cul- 
ture of the student were gradually better 
adjusted, and beginnings of specialized 
study founded on general culture were in- 
stituted. The use of the Library was 



made of importance as a help to the stu- 
dent's regular class work. The two lite- 
rary societies, Whig and Clio, were relieved 
of the distress under which they had suf- 
fered from secret societies by exterminat- 
ing these societies, and helped in their 
friendly rivalry by the establishment of 
additional college honors open to their 
competition. Old class-room and chapel 
disorders slowly gave way before better 
buildings and improved instruction. Use- 
ful auxiliaries to the curriculum were en- 
couraged and, in particular, the President's 
" Library Meeting " was started. Here, 
month after month, the upper classmen 
met in large numbers to hear some paper 
by Doctor McCosh, some professor from 
Princeton or elsewhere, some bright 
alumnus or scholar unattached to a uni- 
versity. Distinguished strangers got into 
the habit of coming to see the College, 
and such visits as those of General Grant 
and other American dignitaries, and of 
the German professors Dorner and Christ- 
lieb, of the Duke of Argyll, of Froude 
and of Matthew Arnold were greatly en- 
joyed. And so by slowly-working 
agencies a change in the way of growth, 
now rapid and now apparently checked 
was taking place. The impoverished small 
College was being renovated, uplifted and 
expanded. It was put on its way toward 
a university life. Its Faculty and students 
increased, until in 1888 the sixteen in- 
structors had become a body of forty- 
three and the students were over six hun- 
dred. Yet this gratifying increase is not 
the great thing. It might have come and 
amounted to little more than a diffusion of 
weakness. But it was qualitative as well 
as quantitive, for the College was steadily 
producing a body of better and better 
trained men, and a body of men having an 
intense esprit du corps of great value for 
the future solidarity of Princeton. For 
Doctor McCosh not only left his indelible 
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youthful enthusiams into one mastering 
passion for Princeton as a coming univer- 
sity, democratic in its student life, moved 
by the ideas of discipline and duty, 
unified in its intellectual culture, open to 
new knowledge, and Christian to the 
core. 

VII. 

His relations with the students were 
intimate and based upon his fixed con- 
viction that upon them ultimately rested 
the fate of Princeton. This conviction 
meant more than that he saw in young 
men the cording men. "A college de- 
pends," he once said, " not on its presi- 
dent or trustees or professors, but on the 
character of the students and the homes 
they come from. If these change nothing 
can stop the college changing." To his 
eyes the movement that determined 
everything was the movement from below 
upward and outward, and the business of 
president, trustees and professors was to 
make this mass of raw material into the 
best finished product possible, — but, first 
of all, the material must be sound if there 
is to be success in the product. The phi- 
losopher of elemental reality was never 
more true to his principles than just here. 
Given, however, a body of students of 
sound stock, and he felt sure that the de- 
sired results in their discipline and culture 
were obtainable by intelligent and patient 
treatment. First of all, as the negative 
condition of success, he insisted that idle- 
ness must be done away with or no prog- 
ress would be possible. " If they are idle 
you can do nothing with them," was one 
of his axioms, — nothing to prevent the 
positive vices to which idleness gives 
occasion, and nothing to develop the mind 
by wholesome exercise. Next on his 
programme came an orderly and regular 
course of study to be pursued by the 
student without faltering. Then in order 
to bind all the student's life into one and 



place him in the right direction, he de- 
pended upon the sense of moral responsi- 
bility, quickened and energized by Chris- 
tian truth. It was a simple programme, 
and great as it was simple. 

His capacity for detail was marvelous, 
and hence he could meet special individ- 
ual needs as well as plan on the general 
scale. It seems as though his sanity of 
judgment and constant endeavor to develop 
normal character was the very thing that 
enabled him to recognize the kind and ex- 
tent of departure from the normal standard 
in any student at any stage of develop- 
ment. Once he met a rather pompous 
undergraduate who announced with some 
impressiveness that he could no longer 
stay in the church of his fathers, as he 
needed something more satisfying, and 
that he felt it proper to acquaint Doctor 
McCosh with the great fact. The sole reply 
was, " You'll do no such thing." And so 
it turned out. In answer to a cautiously- 
worded long question put by a member of 
the Faculty in order to discover whether 
some one charged with a certain duty had 
actually performed it, the answer came like 
a shot, " He did." No more I How short he 
could be ! To an instructor in philosophy 
whom he wished to impress with the reality 
of the external world as against the teach- 
ings of idealism, he said with a sweep of 
his hand toward the horizon, " It is there, 
it is there ! You know it ! Teach it ! " 
Then, too, he was shrewd. In case of a 
student who pleaded innocence, though 
his delinquency was apparent to the Doc- 
tor, who nevertheless wanted to be easy 
with him, the verdict was, " I accept your 
statement. Don't do so again." On one 
occasion a visiting clergyman conducting 
evening chapel service made an elaborate 
prayer, including in his petitions all the 
officers of the College, arranged in order, 
from President to trustees, professors and 
tutors. There was great applause at the 
last item. At the Faculty meeting imme- 



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diately after the service the Doctor, in 
commenting upon the disorder, aptly re- 
marked, " He should have had more sense 
than to pray for the tutors." His conscious- 
ness of mastery was so nai've that he 
cared little for surface disorder in the class- 
room, so far as his confidence in being 
able to meet it was involved, but cared a 
great deal if he found himself at a dead 
point in the course over which he felt 
he must carry the class. Here the dull- 
ards, the apathetic, the drones, the light- 
witted and especially the provokers of dis- 
order came in for a castigation of the most 
interesting kind. "Sit down, sir," some- 
times served both to suppress a tumult 
and at the same time waken a mind that 
had never been awake before. He could 
talk to men with a severity and tone of 
command few would dare employ. 
Though the most indifferent could not fail 
to see that he was terribly in earnest at 
times, they also saw his hearty and deep 
affection for them. "A man of granite 
with the heart of a child " is an under- 
graduate's estimate of the old Doctor. 

A pleasant })icture of the impression he 
made on another man of simple heart and 
strong nature is preserved in a letter of 
President Mark Hopkins, of Williams Col- 
lege, written after Doctor McCosh had vis- 
ited Williamstown. It may well be inserted 
here. " That visit," he writes, " is among 
my most pleasant recollections. It was 
during the summer vacation ; the weather 
was fine, and we were quite at leisure to 
stroll about the grounds and ride over the 
hills. Riding thus we reached, I remember, 
a point which he said reminded him of 
Scotland. There we alighted. At once he 
bounded into the field like a young man, 
passed up the hillside, and, casting him- 
self at full length under a shade, gave 
himself up for a time to the associations 
and inspiration of the scene. [ seem to 
see him now, a man of world-wide reputa- 
tion, lying thus i?olitar^ among the hills. 



They were draped in a dreamy haze sug- 
gestive of poetic inspiration, and, from his 
quiet but evidently intense enjoyment, he 
might well, if he had not been a great 
metaphysician, have been taken for a 
great poet. And, indeed, though he had 
revealed himself chiefly on the metaphys- 
ical side, it was evident that he shared 
largely in that happy temperament of 
which Shakespeare and Tennyson are the 
best examples, in which metaphysics and 
poetry seem to be fused into one and be- 
come identical."* 

About his personality numberless stories 
have gathered, illustrative of his various 
traits. He was the constant theme of 
student talk, even to his slightest pecul- 
iarities. The " young barbarians all at 
play " were fond of these, and yet with 
reverence for him. Who can forget the 
various classroom and chapel incidents? 
Who will ever forget some of the Doctor's 
favorite hymns? No one, surely, who 
heard two of them sung with deep tender- 
ness at his burial. 

VIII. 

Doctor McCosh gave up the presidency 
June 20th, 1888, passing the remainder of 
his days at his newly-built home on Pros- 
pect Avenue. His figure was well known 
among us these last years, as he took his 
walks in the village, or out into the country 
or under the elms of the McCosh Walk, 
or sat in his place in the Marquand 
Chapel. His interest in the College never 
abated. Yet he did not interfere in it 
after he left it. As President Patton has 
observed : " He was more than a model 
President. He was a model ex-President." 
Nor did he lose sight of " my boys," his 
former pupils. At the annual reunions of 
classes it became the custom to march in 
a body to see him at his home. He 
"knew them," even if not always by 



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name. Yet he would astonish many a one 
by recalling some personal incident that 
might well be supposed to be forgotten. 
Nearly one hundred and twenty of his 
pupils have followed his example in devot- 
ing themselves to the cause of the higher 
learning. Some of them may have failed 
to follow the old Doctor's philosophy in 
all its bearings, some may have diverged 
otherwise, but no one, I feel sure, has 
failed to carry away a conviction of the 
reality of truth and of the nobility of 
pursuing it, as well as at least a reverence 
for the Christian religion. On April 1st, 
1891, his eightieth birthday occurred. It 
was duly honored.* The day was literally 
given over to the old Doctor. The Presi- 
dent, the Trustees, the Faculty as a body, 
the students, the alumni, the residents of 
Princeton and distant personal friends 
were all present or represented. His last 
really public appearance was at the Inter- 
national Congress of Education held in 
connection with the World's Columbian 
Exhibition at Chicago in July, 1893. The 
popular interest and the interest of educa- 
tors in him was such as to make him the 
most noted figure there. Other Presidents 
and institutions joined cordially in doing 
him honor, and his presence at the Prince- 
ton section of the university exhibits was 
the occasion for a demonstration of affec- 
tion from his old pupils. 

On Sunday, October 28th, 1894, he was 
as usual in his place in the Chapel. It 
was his last appearance there. Within 
a day or two he gave such evidence of 
failing strength that his end was seen to 
be near. Without the stroke of disease, 
clear-minded to the last, at his own home 
and surrounded by all his family, he peace- 
fully passed away at ten o'clock in the 
night of Friday, November 16th, 1894. 
The students whom he had never taught, 
but who loved him, rang the bell of Nas- 



sau Hall to tell Princeton that Doctor 
McCosh was dead. 

Fortis nil- sapiensqu^ is part of the epitaph 
of one of the Scipios. It describes Doctor 
McCosh. But he was more than a strong 
and wise man. He discerned so far as to 
distinguish between the transient and the 
enduring, the illusory and the real, in 
character, in thought, in education and in 
religion. He sought and laid hold on " the 
things that cannot be shaken." And 
they will " remain." For, as one of his 
pupils well said when we turned home 
from his grave, " He was himself one of 
the evidences of the Christian religion." 



THE FUNERAL EXERCISES, 



By WILLIAM LIBBEY, Jr. 



» See Harper's Weekly, April, 1891, 



The fine weather of Tuesday, November 
20th, made it possible to carry out the 
arrangements which had been made for 
the last honors to our beloved ex-presi- 
dent. These arrangements were prepared 
by a committee of the Faculty consisting 
of Professors Libbey, Sloane and West, 
and Avere executed by Professor Libbey as 
marshal. Special trains from both New 
York and Philadelphia brought large num- 
bers of alumni and friends to pay their 
tribute to his memory. 

Marquand Chapel had been appropri- 
ately draped and decorated with 
plants and flowers under the super- 
vision of a committee of the Faculty, 
consisting of Professors Marquand and 
Frothingham. In addition, the entrance 
to Nassau Hall had been heavily draped 
and the national colors above placed at 
half-mast. The buildings' of the two 
Literary Societies had also placed the 
emblems of mourning over their portals. 

At 1:30 p. M. the bell of Nassau Hall 
called the invited guests, the Trustees of 
the College and Seminary, and the Facul- 



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ties of both institutions together in the Old 
Chapel. Here they were formed in line 
by Professor Magie and proceeded to 
Marquand Chapel. The choir of the chapel 
had been reserved for this procession, with 
the exception of the College Faculty who 
occupied the stalls upon both sides of the 
building. The general seating arrange- 
ments of the chapel had been placed in 
the hands of Mr. Harold McCormick as 
grand usher. The middle block of seats 
was occupied by the family and personal 
friends, and the side blocks by the alumni. 
In the meantime, the College students, 
1,000 strong, had assembled at the eastern 
end of Nassau Hall under their marshals 
as follows : Grand marshal, Stanley Mc- 
Cormick ; senior marshal, James Blair, Jr. . 
junior marshal, A. Gunster; sophomore 
marshal, J. M. Hitzrot ; freshman marshal? 
A. M. Stewart. After forming they march- 
ed in double ranks past the chapel, and 
through McCosh walk to Prospect avenue. 
Upon reaching the late residence of Dr. 
McCosh the ranks divided and took up 
positions upon the two sidewalks, the 
lines reaching from the gateway of the 
house to Washington street. Brief services 
had already been conducted by Professor 
Macloskie in Dr. McCosh's study in the 
presence of the immediate family. Upon 
their conclusion the funeral cortege, con- 
sisting of the hearse and the three car- 
riages containing the members of the fam- 
ily, passed down the avenue between the 
student ranks. The pall-bearers. Professors 
Fine, Marquand, Ormond, Osborn, Scott, 
Sloane, Winans and West, walked on 
either side of the hearse. When the hearse 
had reached the head of the line, the stu- 
dents marched with it as a guard of honor 
to the chapel. As the procession passed 
through the gates at the end of McCosh 
walk the bell began tolling and 
continued to toll until the chapel doors 
were closed. As the casket entered the 
chapel, carried by his former pupils, Pro- 



fessor Dwight Elmendorf '82 played Guil- 
mant's " Prayer." Mrs. McCosh, upon the 
arm of her son. Dr. Andrew J. McCosh of. 
New York, followed the coffin up the aisle 
while immediately behind them were Mr. 
and Mrs. Maitland and Dr. and Mrs. Magie. 
President Patton presided at the exercises 
in the chapel, and announced the favorite 
hymn of Dr. McCosh, which was sung by 
the whole congregation to the tune 
" Dundee," 

God of Bethel ! by whose hand 

Thy people still are fed ; 
"Who, through this weary pilgrimage 

Hast all our fathers led ; 

Our vows, our prayers, we now present 

Before thy throne of grace : 
God of our fathers ! be the God 

Of their succeeding race. 

Through each perplexing path of life 
Our wandering foot'-teps guide ; 

Give us this day our daily bread, 
And raiment fit provide. 

Oh, spread thy covering wings around, 

Till all our wanderings cease, 
And at our Father's loved abode 

Our souls arrive in peace. 

President Patton then read selections 
from both the Old and New Testaments. 

The following address was then deliver- 
ed by Dean Murray : 

A great career has been nobly fulfilled, 
the conflicts ended, the course finished, 
the faith kept, its closing scenes have been 
all ended by every circumstance of wel- 
come alleviation, the mind clear to the 
last, the death itself a painless sinking in- 
to rest, not one of that dear innermost 
circle absent from the home, it surely 
seems that a triumphal rather than a 
mournful note should be struck. It seems 

that 

"Nothing is here for teai-s, nothing to wail, 
Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. 
Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair 
And what may quiet us in a death so noble." 

Yet grief there must be, nothing can 
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grief is so blended and tempered with a 
sacred joy that we to-day are of those de- 
scribed by an apostle as "sorrowful yet 
always rejoicing." 

It sometimes happens, indeed, in the 
rushing energy of life that when a man 
who has held high position and achieved 
great usefulness retires from his field of 
active labor and having laid down strenu- 
ous service for the more secluded life of con- 
templation and rest, is no more so prom- 
inent in the public eye, that for the time 
at least his great success becom es dimmed 
to view. The busy world soon forgets the 
most stirring and prominent. But to this 
Dr. McCosh was a marked exception. Not 
for a moment, since six j'ears ago he re- 
signed his presidential office and has lived 
among us as citizen and neighbor and 
friend, not for a moment has his work 
here been forgotten. His appearance on 
any public occasion, his words whenever 
uttered, always drew that hearty, enthusi- 
astic response which at once revealed how 
vivid and how strong was the appreciation 
of what he had done for, what he had 
been to, this institution. Not less than 
when he put oft' his official robes was this 
sense of indebtedness to him, on the part 
of every student, every graduate, every 
friend of the College, every friend of the 
higher education. 

But he has now passed away. We shall 
see him no more under the elms, along 
the path which bears his name, no more 
a glad and reverent worshipper in this 
chapel. Yet, if it were possible, his death, 
the absence, the silence, has by a sort of 
shock roused a larger appreciation, a fuller 
sense of the work ho did in the twenty 
years of active presidential service, and 
like 

" Mists that rise against the sun 
Made him but greater seem, not greater grow." 

It is not, however, on this occasion for 
me to attempt any estimate of Dr. Mc- 
Cosh 's life-long devotion to philosophic 



studies, any formal survey of what he was 
as an educator, to give any full detail of 
what he did for this institution. That 
will be done on some future occasion and 
by hands more competent than mine to 
take just measurements of his achieve- 
ments. My task is the grateful but simple 
one of saying a few words which may in- 
dicate our sense of loss and also of high 
appreciation, may evoke our gratitude to 
God for His gift of the man to us ere we 
lay him down in yonder cemetery by the 
side of his great compeers, Jonathan Ed- 
wards and John Witherspoon. 

Dr. McCosh assumed the Presidency in 
the Autumn of 1868. It was noticeable 
how immediately he made the impression 
that under his control the College was to 
rise into a prominence it had never before 
attained. I was at that time a pastor in 
New York City, but I well remember how 
in influential circles there, outside the 
nearer constituency of the institution, it 
was felt that under divine Providence a 
new and brilliant chapter in Princeton's 
history would be written. An inquiry in- 
to what such a conviction was founded on 
would recognize first of all the reputation 
he had already achieved in Great Britain. 
He had been selected as one of the exam- 
iners for the Civil Service and had distin- 
guished himself by the skill and ability 
with which he had fulfilled the duties of 
this public position. He had in Queen's 
College, Belfast, for years borne a high rep- 
utation for his abilities in the Professor's 
chair. 

He had gained name and fame by his 
writings, especially by his work on The 
Method of the Divine Government. For this 
success abroad as well as for his later suc- 
cess here, he had secured a mental train- 
ing and discipline in the University of 
Edinboro', which was thorough and broad, 
and during his pastorate he had main- 
tained the habits of a close and enthusi- 
astic student. 



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Thus trained and with the prestige al- 
ready secured, of a distinguished educator, 
he began his work here. The fortunes of 
the College were at a low ebb. There were 
noble foundations in its historic past on 
which he could build. There were noble 
benefactors, especialW our founder, .John 
C. Green, ready to second his efforts with 
noble gifts. And we can only realize what 
he was as a College president when to-day 
we recall what his twenty years of service 
for the College accomplished. 

It is doubtful whether his success could 
have been so great, certainly not so com- 
plete, but for the influence he at once 
gained as a leader, and as a teacher of 
philosophy. It is no disparagement to 
those who had gone before him in this 
department to say that ijever had Prince- 
ton known such power in that chair. 
Jonathan Edwards, the greatest name in 
American philosophy, was president of 
the College but for six short weeks. But 
Dr. McCosh had not been long in this 
chair before he had roused an enthusiasm 
for philosophic study which has borne 
wide fruits. This influence as a teacher 
kindled the admiration of his pupils, and 
as class after class went from under him 
they bore into the communities they rep- 
resented the same confidence in his abili- 
ties, the same pride in his attainments, 
and all this lent a subtle but decisive aid 
to his efforts in re-organizing the College 
and building it up along the new lines. 
And therefore Dr. McCosh is an illustra- 
tion of the truth which I fear this age is 
in danger of forgetting or too lightly heed- 
ing, that a college president can only reach 
the fullness of possibilities in his great 
office when to the organizing and execu- 
tive functions he can add that of a great 
teacher in a great department of knowl- 
edge, be it scientific, i)hilosophic or lit- 
erary. 

Such names as that of the late Master 
of Balliol, those of Francis Wayland, 



Mark Hopkins, Theodore Woolsey and 
James McCosh are at once the brilliant 
illustrations and cogent proof of this truth. 

Aside from these general qualities which 
so strongly characterized the presidency of 
Dr. McCosh, these more special elements 
may be named as leading features. There 
was in him a concentration of all his re- 
sources for building up the College. No 
one could come even into casual contact 
with him without perceiving how entirely 
this purpose possessed him. When he lay 
down and when he rose up, at home or 
abroad, in social circles or in public cir- 
cles, those about him were made to feel 
that the one great aim filling the horizon 
of his thought and feeling was the advance- 
ment of the College. He never spared 
himself. No journey was too long to be 
taken, no sacrifice was too great of time or 
effort, no call from the alumni or friends 
of the institution too exacting. The won- 
der was that with all these outside efforts 
he kept up resolutely and continuously 
his studies. We used to smile sometimes 
at the naive way in which he would speak 
of my college. But if we thought deeply 
enough upon the quaint phrase, we saw 
that this sense of proprietorship meant 
with him that he had identified all his in- 
terests with those of Princeton, they were 
not two but one. He laid all his gifts and 
labors willingly on the altar of devotion to 
her interests. And if in all this he seemed 
to know but one thing and that the growth 
of kis college, let us to-day remember that 
this is the secret of all high success in any 
department of life. 

The breadth of his educational spirit also 
enters as a characteristic feature of his ad- 
ministration. Dr. McCosh believed pro- 
foundly in the old-time classical training. 
He never swerved from this position. Had 
he been asked the (luestion. Can one not get 
an education without Greek, he would have 
answered, " Yes! an education, perhaps a 
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he was no doctrinaire. He kept himself 
in touch with all modern educational meth- 
ods, made them his study, took from them 
what his judgment approved as wise mental 
discipline. He had a large recognition 
for modern science, had no fear of it as 
anti - Christian, owned its disciplinary 
power, and sought to have the spirit and 
methods of Joseph Henry perpetuated 
here in large measure. And so from year 
to year the curriculum was broadened 
under him, its standards raised, and 
nothing of exact and thorough mental 
discipline sacrificed. The whole College 
felt this. His students caught this spirit. 
His Faculty owned its worth. And thus 
he rallied to the support of the institution 
that large and growing class of men who 
are demanding in education as in every 
thing else, a recognition of the modern 
spirit. 

Nothing, however, is more to be reck- 
oned among the elements of Dr. McCosh's 
power than his personal relation to the 
students. Their pride in him, their en- 
thusiastic recognition of the growth of the 
College under him was not more marked 
than their personal affection for him. 
This grew on after they had ceased to be 
his pupils and had gone out into life. If 
one seeks to analyze its sources, it may l)e 
difficult to specify one quality more than 
another. Sometimes it was wakened by a 
word or two of kindly interest in the 
library, or of friendly greeting on the 
campus. If, as some of you may recall, 
there was a slight haze of uncertainty 
about the name, there was no uncertainty 
about the kindly feeling in his heart 
toward you as one of " my pupils." He 
was never unapproachable. How kind he 
was in sickness ! That always touched him. 
I never saw him unnerved but once and 
that was in the dreadful sickness of 1880. 
Meeting him on the campus, I had to tell 
him of one case peculiar in its distressing 
circumstances. He seemed dazed b}'^ his 



grief. It was too deep for words. The 
project of a College Infirmary was a favor- 
ite one with him. When he learned a few 
years ago that it was at last to be fulfilled, 
his joy was great. He was a liberal con- 
tributor toward its erection, and those who 
heard his prayer at the laying of the cor- 
ner stone of the infirmary will recall how 
tenderly he alluded to the sick student 
away from home and friends. 

I should sadly fail in doing any justice 
to the memory of Dr. McCosh did I not 
lay a special emphasis on the Christian 
element in his administration. Amid all 
his high ambitions and large plans and 
unsparing labors for the College, he never 
forgot, and his Faculty was never allowed 
to forget, that it should maintain the 
character and do the work of a Christian 
college. He believed profoundly that ed- 
ucation must have a Christian basis. He 
was loyal to all the traditions of the past, 
and he sought to administer the office he 
held in the spirit of its noble charter. It 
was under his guidance that the practice 
of administering the Holy Communion at 
the beginning and close of the College 
year was instituted. It was to him a source 
of the truest joy when this beautiful chapel 
was reared by the generosity of its donor. 
He wrote the graceful inscription on yon- 
der tablet. In private and in public, in 
active co-operation with the Christian So- 
ciety of the College, in many a confidential 
talk with his students on the great themes 
of religion, he sought always to develope 
the Christian element in College life. I do 
not think he favored the idea of a College 
Church. In fact, though a Presbyterian 
by deep conviction, he avoided anything 
which would divert attention from his 
own aim to make the College Christian 
rather than denominational. The cath- 
olicity of his spirit here was full and large. 
The legacy of devotion to the Christian 
element in College life he has left us is 
indeed a sacred and abiding one. 



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And I must not omit a passing allusion 
to the debt which the Christian ministry- 
owes him. Dr. McCosh never forgot that 
he had been himself a pastor. He de- 
lighted to refer to his work in the parishes 
he had served in his beloved Scotland. 
His pride in the part he took, along with 
Chalmers and Guthrie and the host of 
Scotch worthies in establishing the Free 
Church of Scotland was with him always. 
In his latest days his eye would kindle 
over the recollection of those memorable 
scenes in the ecclesiastical history of Scot- 
land. 

It was noticeable, too, how deep was his 
interest in all the modern movements of 
the Christian Church to bring the gospel 
of Christ to the poorer classes. Nay, to 
have the Christian Church brought into 
closer connection with them. How pro- 
foundly he deplored their absence and 
separation from the ordinances of the 
gospel. Some of his most striking public 
utterances are in connection with this 
mighty problem. 

Aside from this power of example, he 
has laid the Christian ministry under last- 
ing debt by his writings. I was a young 
pastor when his noble book on The Method 
of the Divine Government came out, but I 
well remember the delight with which it 
was hailed by the generation of young 
ministers then on the stage. And the 
assertion may be safely ventured that if 
the libraries of the American ministry 
could be searched it would be a gratifica- 
tion if not a surprise to find how large a 
place Dr. McCosh 's works fill upon their 
shelves. 

The last address by Dr. McCosh in this 
chapel was a memorable one. It was given 
several years ago on a Sunday evening in 
the simple religious service held here in 
the close of the day. He had been asked 
repeatedly once more to preach in the 
pulpit, from which he had so often spoken, 
but had declined from a fear that he 



might not be able to endure the strain. 
This simple and less exhausting service 
he readily undertook. 

On the occasion to which I refer he read, 
with a touching emphasis, St. Paul's 13th 
Chapter of First Corinthians, that wonder- 
ful chapter in which the apostle discourses 
on Charity. Having ended the reading, 
he gave a brief analysis of its points, re- 
marking on the great climax of the last 
verse, "And now abideth Faith, Hope and 
Charity, but the greatest of these is Char- 
ity." Then he announced his purpose of 
saying a few words on the first clause of 
the 9th verse, and read it slowly, and those 
who heard it will not forget the scene as 
he said, " For we know in part," instantly 
adding with an almost triumphant tone, 
" But we know." 

Six years ago he laid aside the cares of 
office and entered on the evening of his 
life, followed by the gratitude of his pu- 
pils, the admiration of his friends, and the 
good wishes and kindly thoughts of all 
who had been associated with him in the 
Faculty or Board of Trustees. His retire- 
ment was characterized by an equal dig- 
nity and cheerfulness. He had always 
been a busy student, and he still kept up 
the long-cherished habits. It was his de- 
light to welcome his old students at his 
home. His interest in the College was as 
deep and devoted as ever. His pen was 
not idle, and his brain wrought on with 
no sign of diminished vigor. At last, 
however, the vigorous form began to suc- 
cumb. The decay of physical power was 
very gradual. He could no longer take 
the accustomed long walks in which he 
delighted. The seat was provided under 
y(mder elms where many of us have seen 
him resting. There let it remain till it 
has crumbled to dust. 

A few months since it became apparent 
that old age was slowly but surely sapping 
the foundations of his vital strength. The 
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ward man seemed renewed day by day. 
Tis but a few weeks since, that on a Sun- 
day morning he was a worshipper with us 
in this chapel. The end, however, was 
just approaching. He was soon thereafter 
confined to his bed. Of late he had begun 
to feel that his physical weakness had 
closed on him the gates of useful life and 
the thought saddened him. 

The last illness was, however, brief and 
painless almost to the last, but conscious- 
ness was entire, his mind clear, till he fell 
asleep, having served his generation by 
the will of God. He was ready to depart 
and be with Christ. Once when his be- 
loved wife repeated to him the tender 
words, " God so loved the world that He 
gave His only begotten Son, &c.," the 
prompt and touching response was, "Praise 
His grace." At another time the hymn of 
Bonar, " I bless the Christ of God," was 
read to him and its reading gave him evi- 
dent comfort. It may well stand as the 
confession of his faith. 

And so he has passed away. 

There is no class of public men who, in 
the development of American institutions 
with their new and complex problems, 
have fulfilled a nobler work than the 
presidents of our colleges. They have 
been men of the best type of Christian 
culture. Their personal influence, their 
teaching have largely moulded the char- 
acter of those who touch the springs of 
national life and give shape to our Amer- 
ican civilization. Their work may not 
have been sufficiently recognized. But 
the educator as a power in American life, 
growing year by year, must be reckoned 
with always, and as it comes to be meas- 
ured more justly, the men who have risen 
to the height of their noble trusts, as heads 
of the higher seats of learning, will find a 
grateful countr}'' ready to give them their 
due meed of praise. Among these names, 
and high among them, will be found that 
of Dr. James McCosh. Let this one last 



word be one of deep and reverent thank- 
fulness to the God of our fathers for His 
gift to us of this honored president whose 
mortal body we shall soon tenderly carry 
to its burial. 

Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke of New York 
then delivered the following address as 
the representative of the alumni : 

" The duty which falls to me to-day is 
very simple and very sacred. A member 
of the first class that entered Princeton 
under the Presidency of Dr. McCosh, I am 
called here to speak not for myself alone, 
but in the name of two thousand old pu- 
pils who would pay the tribute of honor 
and love to the memory of our grand old 
man. We loved him because he loved 
Princeton. He was born in Scotland, but 
he was born an American and Prince- 
tonian. If you could have opened his 
heart, you would have found ' Princeton ' 
written there. He was firmly convinced 
that this college, with its history, its tradi- 
tions, and its Christian faith, was predestin- 
ated to become one of the great American 
universities. ' It is the will of God,' he 
said, 'and I will do it' A noble man, 
with a noble purpose, makes noble friends. 
Enthusiasm is contagious. Dr. McCoah 
laid the foundation of Princeton Univer- 
sity broad and deep and strong; and he 
left behind him a heritage of enthusiasm, 
a Princeton spirit which will complete his 
work and never suffer it to fail. We love 
him because he loved truth, and welcomed 
it from whatever quarter of the wide 
heaven it might come. He had great con- 
fidence in God as the source of truth and 
the eternal defender of His true word. 
He did not conceive that anything would 
be discovered which God had not made. 
He did not suppose that anything would 
be evolved which God had not intended 
from the beginning. The value of his phi- 
losophy of common sense was very great. 
But he taught his students something far 



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more precious — to love reality in religion 
as in science, to respect all honest work, 
and to reverence every fact of nature and 
consciousness as a veritable revelation from 
Almighty God. 

" We loved him because he loved us. 
He could not always call our names, but 
he always 'knew us very well indeed.' 
He knew that we were his boys. He 
sympathized with us in our disappoint- 
ments. He was glad when anything good 
came to us. He was proud of those of 
you who have won honors. He honestly 
and warmly desired the temporal and 
eternal welfare of every one of his stu- 
dents. And so to-day the hearts of men 
all over this country, yes, and all around 
the world, are turning to this place with 
thoughts of sorrow, and pride, and loyal 
love. 

' O good gray head, which all men knew, * * * 
O iron nerve to true occasion true, 
O fallen at length that tower of strength 
Which stood four-square to all the winds that 
hlew.' 

" But what of Dr. McCosh as a minister 
of Christ ? It has been said that he was 
not a great preacher. Judged by an acad- 
emic standard, perhaps he was not. But 
he was a great man. His character was a 
sermon. His life of action was sacred elo- 
quence. His old age of peaceful, genial, 
mellow beauty was like the benediction 
'that follows after prayer.' 

" Farewell, beloved man of God and 
master of our youth ; gratefully, affection- 
ately, triumphantly we bid you farewell. 
You have fought a good fight ; you have 
finished your course ; you have kept the 
faith ; you have received the crown of life 
from your Redeemer's hand. We would 
leave at your feet the unfading wreath of 
your old students' honor and love." 

Rev. Dr. John Hall, of New York, then 
led in prayer as follows : 

Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, 
we pray for the sake of Jesus Christ thy 



Son thou wilt give unto us thy presence 
and teaching and divine example. We 
adore thee, blessed Father. We recognize 
thee as all wise and all holy. We worship 
thee through Christ our Redeemer. We 
thank thee that thou didst give this man. 
We trust in thee and put our souls in thy 
keeping. We thank thee for his faithful- 
ness in thy work. All this has been owing 
to thy grace, Oh Lord, and we give thee 
the glory. Let thy peace rest upon this 
institution and all other colleges. Let thy 
aid be extended to all forms of Christ's 
work until we meet in the great general 
assembly. These great blessings we ask 
for ourselves and others. And now may 
the great Shepherd of the sheep make us 
perfect unto death, as he was, through 
Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory for 
ever and ever. Amen. 

The following hymn, which was written 
by Horatius Bonar, a great friend of the 
late Doctor McCosh, was then sung : 

I bless the Christ of God : 

I rest on love divine ; 
And with unfaltering lip and heart 

I call this Saviour mine. 

His cross dispels each doubt ; 

I l)ury in his tomb 
Each thought of unbelief and fear, 

Each lingering shade of gloom. 

I praise the God of grace ; 

I trust his truth and might ; 
He calls me his, I call him mine, 

My God, my joy, my light. 

'Tis he who saveth me. 

And freely pardon gives ! 
I love because he loveth me, 

I live because he lives. 

My life with him is hid. 
My death has passed away, 

My clouds have melted into light. 
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The benediction was pronounced by 
Professor Duffield : And now may the 
peace of God, which passeth all under- 
standing, keep our hearts through Christ 
Jesus. May the grace of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, the love of God, the communion of 
the Holy Spirit, be with us all for ever. 
Amen. 

At a quarter past three, when the ser- 
vices in the Chapel were over, the pro- 
cession formed in the following order to 
proceed to the grave : 

Marshals. 
Students of the College. 
Students of Seminary. 
Clergy in Carriages. 
Pall Bearers. 
Hearse. 
Family in Carriages. 
Invited Guests in Carriages. 
Trustees of the College and Seminary. 
Alumni by Classes. 
Mayor and Council of Princeton. 
Citizens. 
Upon reaching the grave, which lies at 
the head of the eastern side of the Presi- 
dent's plot, the students of the College 
formed three sides of a hollow square and 
the Seminary students occupied the fourth 
side. Within this square stood the clergy, 
family, the invited guests, trustees and 
faculties of the College and Seminary and 
the alumni. 

The services at the grave were conducted 
by President Patton, who prayed as fol- 
lows : 

Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, 
Thou hast said that whosoever loved and 
believed in Thee should never die, and as 
we look at this open grave we sorrow not 
as those who have no hope. 

He was our leader, our teacher, and we 
thank Thee for his life. We thank Thee 
for the many deeds of Christian service 
and for his peaceful, quiet end. 

And now we come ourselves to Thee, 
imploring that we, too, may follow him as 



he followed Christ, and that we may be 
active and earnest in the great cause of 
truth. Oh, grant, Heavenly Father, that 
we may be faithful unto death and that 
we may receive the crown of glory. 

And now unto Him who washed us in 
his own blood, we would say, Glory unto 
him, forever and ever. Amen. 

The Rev. Dr. Hinsdale then pronounced 
the benediction. 

Among the invited guests from other 
institutions and public bodies who attend- 
ed the funeral were Hon. William T. 
Harris, United States Commissioner of 
Education, Washington; President Dwight, 
of Yale University ; President Gilman, of 
Johns Hopkins University ', Mr. C. C. Bea- 
man and Mr. Francis H. Rawle, of the 
Overseers of Harvard University ; Provost 
Harrison, of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania ; Rev. Dr. Hastings, of Union Theo- 
logical Seminary ; President Austin Scott, 
of Rutgers College ; President Warfield, of 
Lafayette College; President Hewitt, of 
Emporia College, Kansas ; Professor Pal- 
mer, of Harvard University ; Mr. G. A. 
Plimpton, of the Trustees of Amherst 
College ; Professor Armstrong, of Wesley an 
University; Dr. J. C. Mackenzie, the 
Headmaster, and the masters of the 
Lawrenceville School ; Governor Werts of 
New Jersey and his staff. 



FACULTY RESOLUTIONS UPON THE 
DEATH OF DR. McCOSH. 



At a special meeting of the Faculty, 
held Saturday noon, November 17th, 1 894, 
President Patton appointed Professors 
Shields, Duffield, Ormond and West a 
committee to prepare a minute upon the 
death of Doctor McCosh. Accordingly 
the following minute was prepared and 
was subsequently adopted by the Faculty 
and ordered entered upon the record. 

" In recording the death of President 
McCosh, the Faculty are not able to give 



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adequate expression to their feeling. For 
many years their relations with him were 
closer than those of any other portion of 
the Academic body ; and their continued 
friendship with him since his retirement 
from office has only deepened the sense of 
bereavement and increased the veneration 
and love with which they have followed 
him to his grave. 

While presiding in the Faculty Dr. Mc- 
Cosh always commanded respect by his 
conscientious devotion to the interests of 
the College ; by his fidelity in the routine 
of official duty ; by his watchful supervis- 
ion of the details of the whole administra- 
tion ; by his kindly interest in the labors 
of his colleagues ; by his hospitable wel- 
come to every new study and new teacher ; 
by the wisdom and liberality of his plans 
for expanding the courses of instruction ; 
and the wonderful efficiency and success 
with which he carried these plans toward 
completion. 

The results of his Presidency have made 
a new epoch in our history. The College 
has virtually become a University. Its 
Faculty has been trebled in numbers. Its 
alumni and friends have rallied around it 
with new loyalty. Munificent gifts have 
been poured into its treasury. Schools of 
Science, of Philosophy, of Art, of Civil and 
Electrical Engineering have been founded, 
with endowed professorships, fellow- 
ships and prizes, and an ample 
equipment of libraries, museums, lab- 
oratories, observatories, chapels, dormi- 
tories, academic halls and athletic grounds 
and buildings. We live amid architectural 
monuments of his energy, which other Col- 
lege generations after us will continue to 
admire. 

In his own department of instruction 
Dr. McCosh has raised the College to its 
proper eminence as a seat of philosophical 
culture. He did this primarily as a think- 
er, by original contributions to Logic, to 
Metaphysics, to Psychology, to Ethics, and 



to the Intuitional School of Philosophy ; 
also as a writer, by the numerous works, 
written in a strong and clear style, with 
which he has enriched the philosophical 
literature of his time ; and especially, as an 
inspiring teacher, by training enthusiastic 
disciples, who are now perpetuating his 
influence in various institutions of learn- 
ing. From this Faculty alone a band of 
such disciples has borne him reverently to 
his burial. 

In the sphere of College discipline Dr. 
McCosh aimed at the moral training of 
the whole undergraduate community. The 
students were brought into more normal 
relations with the Faculty. Vicious tra- 
ditions and customs among them were 
uprooted. Their self-government was 
guarded and promoted ; and their religious 
life found fuller expression in the new 
Marquand Chapel, Murray Hall and the 
St. Paul's Society. 

In the cause of the higher education 
Dr. McCosh became a leader at once con- 
servative and progressive. On the one 
hand he sought to retain the classics for 
their disciplinal value and as fundamen- 
tal to the learned professions and all true 
scholarship ; and for like reasons, the 
mathematics as essential to the sciences, 
whether pursued as bodies of pure knowl- 
edge or applied in the arts. But on the 
other hand, he found due place for the host 
of new special studies, literary, historical, 
political, artistic, technical, demanded by 
modern life and culture. His inaugural 
address " On Academic Teaching in Eu- 
rope" may be said to have struck the key- 
note of true academic teaching in America. 

As the representative head of the Col- 
lege, President McCosh was always and 
everywhere faithful to its Christian tradi- 
tions. By his writings, lectures and ad- 
dresses he defended " Fundamental Truth" 
in religion no less than in philosophy ; he 
vindicated the " Method of the Divine Gov- 
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set forth the " Typical Forms and Special 
Ends in Creation" as consistent with evo- 
lution; he showed the analogy of "The 
Natural and the Supernatural " ; and he 
maintained a logical " Realism " and 
" Theism " against the growing scepticism 
of the day. At the same time his dis- 
criminating conservatism was ever held in 
hearty sympathy with the modem scien- 
tific spirit, and his steadfast adherence to 
the principles of evangelical religion never 
narrowed his Christian s3T3ipathies. A lead- 
er in great international Alliances and 
Councils of the Churches, he also con- 
sistently welcomed students of every rehg- 
ious denomination to their chartered 
privileges within our walls. The represent- 
atives of all creeds mingled in his funeral. 

While a commanding figure has pass- 
ed from public view there remains among 
us, who were his nearer associates, the 
charm of a unique personality and rare 
Christian character, to be henceforth 
enshrined in our memories with reverence 
and affection. 

To his bereaved family we can only 
tender our deepest sympathy, praying that 
they may receive those divine consola- 
tions, which he himself taught during his 
life and illustrated in peaceiiil death." 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



By JOSEPH H. DULLES. 



The following list covers a period of 
sixty-one years, from the time that Doctor 
McCosh was twenty-two years old until 
the year of his death. It is arranged 
chronologically and thus constitutes an 
expose of his literary life. The absolute 
chronological sequence is broken in the 
cases of the Baccalaureate Sermons and 
the Philosophical Series, which are kept 
together. The list does not include all of 
Dr. McCosh 's contributions to the religious 
press, but does contain the more im- 



portant of these. It embraces three 
classes : books, papers read before learned 
societies and articles contributed to vari- 
ous periodicals, and distinct pamphlets. 
The books may be distinguished by small 
capitals. The pamphlets are given 
as bound in paper, although in one or 
two cases there is no separate cover. 
Italics have been used to indicate the 
periodicals or published proceedings in 
which his various articles have appeared. 

On the Use and Functions of Preaching 
and the Advantages of Systematic 
Theology to a Preacher of the Gospel. 
Being a sermon delivered as a vale- 
dictory address to the Adelpho Theo- 
logical Society, March 16, 1833. Edin- 
burgh, 1833, 31 pp., 12mo., paper. 

Review of J. H. Hilton's " The Work of 
the Holy Spirit in Conversion." [Un- 
signed.] The Edinburgh Christian In- 
structor, vol. II, Dec. 1833, pp. 831- 
841 ; continued in vol. Ill, Jan., 1834, 
pp. 34-44. 

Report and address by the Kirk Session of 
the Old Church, Brechin, on the sub- 
ject of Intemperance. Brechin, 1841, 
10 pp., 12 mo., paper. [Unsigned.] 

Recollections of the Disruption in Brechin. 
Intimation from the Old Church Pul- 
pit, Brechin, Nov. 13, 1842. (Printed 
for private circulation.) Brechin, 
1842, 12 pp., 12mo., paper. 

The Wheat and Chaff Gathered into 
Bundles. A statistical contribution 
towards the history of the recent dis- 
ruption of the Scottish ecclesiastical 
establishment. James McCosh, edi- 
tor. Perth, Scotland, 1843, 8vo. 

Does the Established Church acknowledge 
Christ as its Head? The Question 
answered by the official statements of 
the Judges and Statesmen of the Land 
and the Acts of the Established 
Church. 2nd edition, revised. Edin- 
burgh, 1846, 16 pp., 8vo., paper. 



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A Tribute to the Memory of Dr. Chalmers. 
By a former pupil. Brechin, 1847, 
paper. 

Aids in Prayer. For the use of the young. 
3rd edition, with selection of hymns. 
Brechin, 1848, 18 pp., 16mo., paper. 

The Method or the Divine Govern- 
ment, Physical and Moral. Edin- 
burgh, 1850, viii + 540 pp., 8vo. 

The same. New York, 1851, 515 pp., 

8vo. 

The same. New York, 1852. 

The same. 5th edition, revised, Lon- 
don, 1856, 8vo. 



On 



- The same. 
1860, 8vo. 

- The same. 
1867, 8vo. 

- The same. 

- The same. 
549 pp., 8vo 
the Method 
should be 



7th edition. London, 

9th edition. London, 

New York, 1869, 8vo. 
New York, 1874, xiv-f 



in which Metaphysics 
prosecuted : being the 
introductory lecture of Dr. McCosh in 
Queen's College, Belfast, 12th Janu- 
ary, 1852. Reprinted from the Bel- 
fast Mercury of Tuesday, Jan. 13th, 
1852. Belfast, 1852, 16 pp., 16mo., 
paper. 

For Love's Sake. A Farewell Sermon, 
preached in the West Free Church, 
Brechin, Aug. 24, 1854. Brechin, 
1854, 25 pp., 16mo., paper. 

The Necessity for an Intermediate System 
of Education between the National 
Schools and Colleges of Ireland, in 
letters addressed to his Excellency 
the Earl of St. Germains, Lord-Lieu- 
tenant of Ireland. Belfast, 1854, 22 
pp., 8vo., paper. 

Typical Forms and Special Ends in 
Creation. By James McCosh and 
George Dickie. Edinburgh, 1855. 

The same. New York and London, 

1856, viii+539 pp., 8vo. 

The same. 2nd edition. Edinburgh, 

1857, viii+556 pp., 12mo, 



The same. New edition. London, 

1862, 8vo. 

The same. New York, 1869, viii+539 

pp., 8vo. 

The same. New York, 1876, viii-f 539 

pp., 8vo. 

The same. New York, 1880, viii+539 

pp., 8vo. 

The Imagination; Its Use and Abuse. A 
lecture delivered before the Young 
Men's Christian Association, in Exe- 
ter Hall, Jan. 20, 1857. London, 
1857, 35 pp., 12mo., paper. Reprint- 
ed in the Exeter Hall Lecture Series, 
1856-1857, pp. .377-411. London, 
1857, 12mo. 

A Sketch of a Tour on the Continent of 
Europe, with remarks on the lower 
and higher Educational Institutions 
in Prussia. The substance of a paper 
read before the Belfast Natural His- 
tory and Philosophical Society, April 
13, 1859. In the Proceedings of the 
Society, pp. 1-4. Belfast, 1859. 

Sir William Hamilton's Metaphysics. 
Dublin University Magazine, vol. LIV, 
August, 1859, pp. 152-166. 

The Ulster Revival and its Physiological 
Accidents. A paper read before the 
Evangelical Alliance, Belfast, Sept. 22, 
1859. Belfast, [1859], 15 pp., 12mo., 
paper. 

The Shifting Scenes of Life : An Address 
to Youth. Belfast, [no date], 35 pp., 
16mo., paper. 

The Mental Sciences and the Queen's 
University in Ireland : Being a letter 
to the Secretary of the Queen's Univer- 
sity. Belfast, 1860, 8 pp., 8vo., paper. 

The Intuitions of the Mind, Induc- 
tively Investigated. London and 
New York, 1860, viii+504 pp., 8vo. 

The same. New and revised edition, 

London, 1865, xii+448 pp., 8vo. 

The same. New and improved 

edition. New York, 1869, xvi+448 
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The same. New York, 1870. 

The same. 3rd revised edition. 

New York, 1872, xiv+451 pp., 8vo. 

The Association of Ideas and its Influence 
on the Training of the Mind. A lec- 
ture dehvered before the Dublin 
Young Men's Christian Association, 
the 3rd of April, 1861. Dubhn, 1861, 
36 pp., 12mo., paper. 

The Supernatural in relation to the 
Natural. Cambridge, [England] , 
1862, xii+352 pp., 12mo. 

The same. Belfast and New York, 

1862, xii-f 370 pp., 12mo. 

Introduction to the Complete Works of 
Stephen Charnock, B. D. Being pages 
vii-xlviii of vol. I of The Works of 
Stephen Charnock. Nichol's Series of 
Standard Divines. Puritan Period. 
Edinburgh, 1864, 8vo. 

The Present Tendency of Religious 
Thought throughout the Three King- 
doms. A paper read before the Brit- 
ish Organization of the Evangelical 
Alliance, Edinburgh, July 6, 1864. 
Edinburgh, 1864, 32 pp., 8vo., paper. 

Supplement and Questions to Dugald 
Stewart's " Outlines of Moral Philoso- 
phy," In the " Outlines of Moral 
Philosophy," pp. 125-164. London, 
1865, 12 mo. 

The Religious and Social Condition of the 
United States as gathered in a sum- 
mer's tour ; with the Formation of an 
American branch of the Evangelical 
Alliance. In the Proceedings of the 
Evangelical Alliance, 1866, pp. 15-24. 

An Examination of Mr. J. S. Mill's 
Philosophy. Being a Defence of 
Fundamental Truth. London and 
New York, 1866, viii+406 pp., 12mo. 
[The London edition inverts the 
order of the title, reading : A Defence, 
etc.] 

 L_—  The same. 2nd edition with addit- 
ions. New York, 1869, x+470 pp., 
3vo. 



The same. New York, 1871, 8vo. 

The same. New York, 1875, 8vo. 

The same. London, 1877, 8vo. 

The same. New York, 1880, 8vo. 

Waiting for God. A sermon preached in 
Great Queen Street Chapel, April 26, 
1867, in behalf of the Wesleyan- 
Methodist Missionary Society, Lon- 
don, 1867, 29 pp., 12mo., paper. 

Christ the Way, the Truth and the Life. 
A sermon preached in Surrey Chapel, 
May 8, 1867, before the Directors and 
Friends of the London Missionary 
Society. London, 1867, 28 pp., 12mo., 
paper. 

Compulsory Education. A paper read be- 
fore the National Association for the 
Promotion of Social Science. Belfast, 
1867. In the Transactions of the As- 
sociation, pp. 379-385. London, 1868. 

The Present State of the Intermediate 
Education Question in Ireland. Be- 
ing the substance of a paper read 
before the National Association for 
the Promotion of Social Science, Bel- 
fast, 1867. In the Transactions of the 
Association, pp. 456-458. London, 
1868. 

Moral Philosophy in Great Britain in Re- 
lation to Theology. A paper read 
before the Evangelical Alliance in 
Amsterdarh, 1867. The American 
Presbyterian and Theological Review, 
New Series, vol. VI, Jan., 1868, pp. 
3-20. Also printed separately under 
the title: Present State of Moral 
Philosophy in Great Britain in Rela- 
tion to Theology. London, 1868, 13 
pp., 8vo., paper. 

Recent Improvements in Formal Logic in 
Great Britain. The American Presby- 
terian and Theological Review, New 
Series, vol. VI, April, 1868, pp. 65-85. 
[The original form of the treatise on 
Logic] 

Mill's Reply to His Critics. The British 
and Foreign Evangelical Review^ vol. 



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XVII, April, 1868, pp. 332-362. • Re- 
printed in The American Presbyterian 
and Theological Revieio, New Series, 
vol. VI, July, 1868, pp. 350-391. 

The Duty of Irish Presbyterians to their 
Church at the present Crisis in the 
Sustentation of the Gospel Ministry. 
Belfast, 1868, 32 pp., 8vo., paper. 

Philosophical Papers. Containing: I. 
Examination of Sir William Hamil- 
ton's Logic. II. Reply to Mr. Mill's 
Third Edition. III. Present State 
of Moral Philosophy in "Britain. Lon- 
don, 1868, 8v. 

The same. New York, 1869, v+413- 

484 pp., 8vo. 

[Paper II. is also found as Appendix II 
in An Examination of Mr. J. S. Mill's 
Philosophy. 2nd edition. New York, 
1869.] 

Academic Teaching in Europe. Inaugural 
Address ; in Inauguration of James 
McCosh, D.D., LL.D., as President of 
the College of New Jersey, Princeton, 
Oct. 27, 1868, pp. 35-96. New York, 
1869, 8vo., paper. 

Hopkins' " Law of Love and Love as a 
Law." The New Yo7'k Observer, April 
15, 1869. 

Address at the Semicentenary Celebra- 
tion of the Presbyterian Board of 
Education, May 25, 1869. In the 
Proceedings of the same ; pp. 19-23. 
Philadelphia, 1869. 

Baccalaureate Sermons: — 

Christ the Way, the Truth and the 
Life. Being the Baccalaureate ser- 
mon preached before the College of 
New Jersey, June 27, 1869. Prince- 
ton 1869, 25 pp., 12 mo., paper. 

Lessons Derived from the Plant. The 
Baccalaureate sermon preached be- 
fore the College of New Jersey, June 
26, 1870. Princeton, 1870, 32 pp., 
12mo,, paper. 

Unity with Diversity in the Works and 
Word of God. The Baccalaureate 



sermon preached before the College 
of New Jersey, June 25, 1871. Prince- 
ton, 1871, 30 pp. 12mo , paper. 

Faith in Christ and Faith in Doctrine 
Compared and Contrasted. The Bac- 
calaureate sermon preached before 
the College of New Jersey, June 23, 
1872. Princeton, 1872, 3l'pp., 12mo., 
paper. Printed also in The Mercers- 
burg Review, vol. XIX, July, 1872, pp. 
414-438. 

On Singleness of Eye. The Baccalaureate 
sermon preached before the College of 
New Jersey, June 22, 1873. Prince- 
ton, 1873, 24 pp., 12mo., paper. 

Living for a High End. The Baccalau- 
reate sermon preached before the Col- 
lege of New Jersey, June 21, 1874. 
Princeton, 1874, 22 pp., 12mo., paper. 

The Royal Law of Love ; or Love in Rela- 
lation to Law and to God. A Bac- 
calaureate sermon preached before 
the College of New Jersey, June 27, 
1875. New York, 1875, 30 pp., 16mo., 
paper. 

The same. Brechin, 1875, 22 pp. 

12mo., paper. 

The World a Scene of Contest. The Bac- 
calaureate sermon preached before the 
College of New Jersey, June 25, 1876. 
New York, 1876, 32 pp., 12 mo.,,paper. 

The Propriety of acknowledging the Lord 
in all our Ways. The Baccalaureate 
Sermon preached before the College 
of New Jersey, June 16,1878. New 
York and Princeton, 1878, 26 pp., 12 
mo. 

Dr. McCosh on Hazing — Old College Cus- 
toms in Danger. The New York Ledger, 
Jan. 6, 1872. 

Address at the opening of the new Gym- 
nasium at Princeton College, Jan. 13, 
1870. The Presbyterian, Jan. 22, 1870. 

The Evangelical Alliance. Postponement 
of the Conference. The I^ew York Ob- 
server, Sept. 1, 1870. Published also 
in The Evangelist, of the same date. 



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Address at the dedication of Dickinson 
Hall, Princeton College. The New 
York Observer, Nov. 3, 1870. 

The Laws of Discursive Thought. Being 
a text-book of formal Logic. London 
and New York, 1870, xx+212 pp., 
12mo. 

The same. New York, 1876, 12mo. 

The same. Revised edition. New 

York, 1881, 12mo. 

The same. New York, 1890, 12mo. 

Body and Mind. The Independent, April 
6, 1871. 

Materialism. The Independent, April 27, 
1871. 

Darwin's Descent of Man. The Independ- 
ent, May 4, 1871. 

The Support of Ministers. The New York 
Observer, May 4, 1871. 

The Sustentation of the Ministry. The 
Evangelut, May 4, 1871. 

Competitive Examinations. Address at 
the opening of the new academic year 
at Princeton College, Sept. 13, 1871. 
The Presbyterian, Sept. 30, 1871. 

Christianity and Positivism : A series 
of lectures to the times on Natural 
Theology and Apologetics. Delivered 
in New York, January 16 to March 
20, 1871, on the Ely Foundation of 
the Union Theological Seminary. 
New York and London, 1871, viii+ 
369 pp., 12mo. 

The same. New York, 1875, 12mo. 

Questions of Modern Thought. Lec- 
tures by Drs. McCosh, Thompson and 
others. Philadelphia, 1871, 8vo. 

Crisis of the Sustentation Fund. The 
Evangelist, March 28, 1872. 

On Prayer. The Contemporary Review, vol. 
XX, Oct., 1872, pp. 111-1^2. 

Prayer and Inflexible Law. The Independ- 
e)it, Dec. 5, 1872. 

Berkeley's Philosophy. The Presbyterian 
Quarterly and Princeton Review, New 
Series, vol. II, Jan., 1873, pp. 2-29. 



Sustentation of the Ministry. The Inde- 
pendent, Feb. 13, 1873. 

Notice of Dr. Bums. The Presbyterian 
Quarterly and Princeton Review, New 
Series, vol. II, April, 1873, pp. 337-341. 

Sustentation of the Ministry. The Presby- 
terian, May 10, 1873. 

Upper Schools. An address delivered be- 
fore the National Education Associa- 
tion at Elmira, N. Y., Aug. 5, 1873. 
In The Addresses and Journal of Pro- 
ceedings of the National Educational 
Association, pp. 18-23. Peoria, 111., 
1873. 

Dr. Guthrie's Early Ministry. The New 
York Observer, Aug. 7, 1873; concluded 
Aug. 14, 1873. 

A Marked Defect in our Educational 
System. The Evangelist, Sept. 4, 1873. 

College Regattas and Saratoga. The New 
York Observer, Feb. 19, 1874. 

The Sustentation Fund and Consolidation. 
The Presbyterian, May 2, 1874. Pub- 
lished also in The Evangelist, May 4, 
1874. 

Federation of Presbyterians. The Evange- 
list, Sept. 24, 1874. 

The Scottish Philosophy, Biographical, 
Expository, Critical, from Hutche- 
soN TO Hamilton. London, 1874. 8vo. 

The same. New York, 1875, viii-f- 

481 pp., 8vo. 

The same. New York, 1880, 8vo. 

Ideas in Nature overlooked by Dr. 
Tyndall. Being an examination of 
Dr. Tyndall's Belfast address. New 
York, 1875, v-f 50 pp., 12mo. 

What is to become of the Sustentation 
Fund ? The Evangelist, Feb. 25, 1875. 

Does the Church wish to Extinguish Sus- 
tentation? The Evangelist, April 1, 
1875. - 

Does the Church wish Sustentation to go 
down ? The Presbyterian, April 3, 1875, 

The Church must now settle the Susten- 
tation Question. The Presbyterian, 
April 17, 1875. 



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What should now be done with Sustenta- 
tion? The Evangelist, May 13, 1875. 
PubUshed also in The Presbyterian, 
May 22, 1875. 

Prepossessions for and against the Super- 
natural, A Criticism of Dr. Carpen- 
ter. The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 
IX, May, 1876, pp. 21-29. 

The Princeton College Communion. The 
Evangelist, July 27, 1876. 

Is the Development Hypothesis Suffi- 
cient? The Popular Science Monthly, 
vol. X, Nov. 1876, pp. 86-100. 

The Development Hypothesis: is it 
SUFFICIENT ? New York, 1876, 104 pp., 
12mo. 

Discoveries in Science and Speculations 
in Philosophy. In the Report of Pro- 
ceedings of the First General Presby- 
terian Council, Edinburgh, 1877, pp. 
187-194. Edinburgh, 1877. 

Elements involved in Emotions. Mind, 
vol. II, 1877, pp. 413-415. 

Broad Churchism in Scotland. Edin- 
burgh, 1877, 15 pp., 12mo., paper. 

On American Preaching. The Evangelist, 
Sept. 27, 1877. 

On the Intercollegiate Association. The 
Evangelist, Oct. 25, 1877. 

Contemporary Philosophy : Historical. 
The Princeton Review, vol. I, Jan. 1878, 
pp. 192-206. 

Contemporary Philosophy : Mind and 
Brain. The Princeton Review, vol. I, 
March, 1878, pp. 606-632. 

Discipline in American Colleges. The 
North American Review, vol. CXXVI, 
May-June, 1878, pp. 428-441. 

An Advertisement for a New Religion. 
By an Evolutionist. The North Amer- 
ican Review, vol. CXXVII, July, 1878, 
pp. 44-60. [Reprinted in The Con- 
flicts of the Age. See below.] 

A Criticism of the Critical Philosophy, in 
reply to Professor Mahaffy. The 
Princeton Review, vol II, Nov. 1878, 
pp. 889-910. 



Pinal Cause : M. Janet and Professor New- 
comb. The Princeton Review, vol. Ill, 
March, 1879, pp. 367-388. 

Law and Design in Nature. The North 
American Review, vol. CXXVIII, May, 
• 1879, pp. 558-562. 

The Confession of an Agnostic. By an 
Agnostic. The North American Review, 
vol. CXXIX, Sept. 1879, pp. 274-287. 
[Reprinted in The Conflicts of the 
Age. See below.] 

Theologians of the Day : Joseph Cook. 
The Catholic Presbyterian, vol. II, Sept. 

1879, pp. 184-190. 

Herbert Spencer's " Data of Ethics." The 
Princeton Review, vol, IV, Nov. 1879, 
pp. 607-636. 

Course of Study in the Academical De- 
partment of Princeton College. The 
Princeton Book, pp. 125-134. Bos- 
ton, 1879. 

The Emotions. New York and London, 

1880, x+255 pp., 12mo. 
Development and Growth of Conscience. 

The Princeton Review, vol, VI, July, 
1880, pp. 138-144. 

A Presbyterian College in America. The 
Catholic Presbyterian, vol. IV, Aug. 
1880, pp. 81-84. 

The Importance of Harmonizing the Pri- 
mary, Secondary and Collegiate Sys- 
tems of Education. An address de- 
livered before the National Educa- 
tional Association at Chautauqua, N. 
Y., 1880. In The Addresses and Jour- 
nal of Proceedings of the National 
Educational Association, pp. 138-146. 
Salem, 0., 1880. 

Criteria of the Various Kinds of Truth. 
The Princeton Review, vol. VI, 
Nov. 1880, pp. 419-440. Reprinted in 
The British and Foreign Evangelical 
Review, vol. XXX, Jan. 1881, pp. 
122-144. [See also: Philosophical 
Series, No. 1, Criteria, etc., and Tests 
of Various Kinds of Truth. Both 
below.] 



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How to deal with Young Men trained in 
Science in this age of unsettled opinion. 
In the Report of Proceedings of the 
Second General Council of the Pres- 
byterian Alliance, Philadelphia, 1880, 
pp. 204-213. Philadelphia, 1880. Re- 
printed as a pamphlet. Philadelphia 
[no date], 23 pp., 16mo. 

On Evolution. Article in J. G. Wood's 
Bible Animals, pp. 727-755. Phila- 
delphia, 1880. 

On Causation and Development. The 
Princeton Review, vol. VII, May, 1881, 
pp. 369-389. Reprinted in The British 
and Fweign Evangelical Review, vol. 
XXX, Oct. 1881. pp. 750-771. 

The Christian knows no man after the 
flesh. A sermon preached at the in- 
stallation of the Rev. John S. Mc- 
intosh, in Philadelphia, March 17, 
1881. The Preacher and Homiletic 
Monthly, vol. V,^May, 1881, pp. 434- 
444. 

What Morality have we left? By- a 
New Light Moralist. The North 
Amencan Review, vol. CXXXII, May, 
1881, pp. 497-512. [Reprinted in 
The Conflicts of the Age. See below.] 

Religious Conflicts of the Age. By a 
Yankee Farmer. The North American 
Review, vol. CXXXIII, July, 1881, pp. 
25-42. [Reprinted in The Conflicts 
of the Age, under the title: Review 
of the Fight. See below.] 

The Conflicts of the Age. [Anony- 
mous. Four papers originally pub- 
lished in The North American Review, 
viz. :] 1. An Advertisement for a New 
Religion, by an Evolutionist. 2. The 
Confession of an Agnostic, by an Ag- 
nostic. 3. What Morality have we 
left? by a New Light Moralist. 4. 
Review of the Fight, by a Yankee 
Farmer. New York, 1881, 90 pp., 8vo. 

The Senses, External and Internal, being 
Psychology Part I. Cambridge, [Eng- 
land], 1882, 86 pp,, 8vo., paper, 



The Concord School of Philosophy. The 
Princeton Review, vol. IX, Jan., 1882, 
pp. 49-71. 

The Scottish Philosophy as contrasted 
with the German. The Princeton Re- 
view, vol. X, 1882, pp. 326-344. Re- 
printed in The British and Foreign 
Evangelical Review, vol. XXXII, Jan., 
1883, pp. 96-114. 

Philosophical Series: — 

1. Criteria of Diverse Kinds of Truth 
as opposed to Agnosticism. Being 
a Treatise on Applied Logic. New 
York, 1882, viii+60 pp., 12mo., 
paper, 

The same. London, 1884, 8vo. 

2. Energy, Efficient and Final Cause. 
New York, 1883, 55 pp., 12mo., 
paper. 

The same. London, 1884, 8vo. 

3. Development : What it can do and 
what it cannot do. New York, 
1883, 50 pp., 12mo., paper. 

The same. London, 1885, 8vo. 

4. Certitude, Providence and Prayer. 
New York, 1883, 46 pp., 12mo., 
paper. 

The same. London, 1885, 8vo. 

5. Locke's Theory of Knowledge, 
with a notice of Berkeley. New 
York, 1884, 77 pp., 12mo., paper. 

The same. London, 1885, 8vo. 

6. Agnosticism of Hume and Huxley, 
with a notice of the Scottish School. 
New York, 1884, 70 pp., 12mo., 
paper. 

The same. London, 1885, 8vo. 

7. A Criticism of the Critical Philos- 
ophy. New York, 1884, 60 pp., 
12mo., paper. 

The same. London, 1885, 8vo. 

8. Herbert Spencer's Philosophy as 
culminated in his Ethics. New 
York, 1885, 71 pp., 12mo., paper. 

On Manly Sports. The New York Ledger, 
April 7, 1883. 



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A Study of the Mind's Imagery. [In con- 
junction with Professor H. F. Osborn.] 
The Princeton Review^ vol. XIII, Jan., 
1884, pp. 50-72. 

Oversight of Students in Princeton Col- 
lege. The Evangelist^ April 17, 1884. 

The Place of Religion in Colleges. In the 
Minutes and Proceedings of the Third 
General Council of the Alliance of the 
Reformed Churches holding the Pres- 
byterian System, Belfast, July 2, 

1884, pp. 465-470. Belfast, 1884. 
Learning Worshipping its King. The 

Pulpit Treasury, vol. II, Aug., 1884, 
pp. 241-242. 

The Origin of Evil. The Pulpit Treasury, 
vol. II, Nov., 1884, pp. 438-439. 

Evolution and Development. Article in 
the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia of 
Religious Knowledge. New York, 
1884 and 1891. 

David Hume. Article in the Schaif- 
Herzog Encyclopaedia of Religious 
Knowledge. New York, 1884 and 
1891. 

John Locke, Article in the Schaff-Her- 
zog Encyclopaedia of Religious 
Knowledge. New York, 1884 and 
1891. 

Scottish Philosophy. Article in the 
Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia of Re- 
ligious Knowledge. New York, 1884 
and 1891. 

The New Departure in College Education, 
being a reply to President Eliot's 
defense of it in New York, Feb. 24, 

1885. New York, 1885, 23 pp., 12mo,, 
paper. 

The Course of Study in Princeton College, 
Education, vol. V, March-April, 1885, 
pp. 353-359. 

What an American University should be. 
Thi Independent, July 9, 1885. Re- 
printed ; New York, 1885, 16 pp., 
8vo,, paper. 

Habit and its Influence in the Training 
at School. A lecture delivered before 



the students of the Phillips Exeter 
Academy, Nov. 19, 1885. In The 
Phillips Exeter Lectures, pp. 25-46. 
Boston and New York, 1887, 12mo, 

What an American Philosophy should be. 
The New Princeton Revietv, vol. I, Jan., 
1886, pp. 15-32. 

Religion in College : What Place it should 
have. Being an examination of Pres- 
ident Eliot's paper read before the 
Nineteenth Century Club, in New 
York, Feb. 3, 1886. New York, 1886, 
22 pp., 12mo., paper. 

On Home Rule. The Evangelist, April 
22, 1886. 

The Providence of God. The Pulpit Treas- 
ury, vol. IV, Aug., 1886, pp. 238-239. 

Realism : Its Place in the various Philoso- 
phies. The New Princeton Review, 
vol. II, Nov., 1886, pp. 315-338. 

Psychology: The Cognitive Powers. 
New York and London, 1886, 12mo. 

The same. New York, 1891, viii-f 

245 pp., 12mo. 

Psychology : The Motive Powers, Emo- 
tions, Conscience, Will. New York 
and London, 1887, vi + 267 pp., 
12mo. 

Realistic Philosophy defended in a Phil- 
osophic Series, 2 vols. Vol, I, Ex- 
pository. v+252 pp. Vol, II, His- 
torical and Critical v+325 pp. New 
York and London, 1887, 12mo. 
[This work consists of eight philosoph- 
ical treatises originally published separ- 
ately. New York, 1882-1885. See above, 

Philosophical Series.] 

College Fraternities. The Academy [Syr- 
acuse, N. Y.], vol. II, 1887, pp. 372, 

Christian Philosophy. The Pulpit Treasury, 
vol, V, Aug. 1887, pp. 238-289, 

The Religious Aspect of Evolution, 
The Bedell Lectures for 1887. New 
York, 1888, xii+109 pp., 12mo, 

The same. Enlarged and improved 

edition. New York, 1890, xii + 119 
pp., 12mo. 



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Gospel Sermons. New York and London, 
1888, 336 pp., 12mo. 

Twenty Years of Princeton College. Being 
Dr. McCosh's Farewell Address, de- 
livered June 20, 1888. New York, 

1888, 68 pp., 8 vo., paper. 
Dabney's Refutation of the Sensualistic 

Philosophy. But What Next ? The 
Presbyterian Quarterly, vol. II, July, 
1888,' pp. 274-282. 

Robert Elsmere and his new Christianity. 
The New York Ledger, Dec. 29, 1888. 
Reprinted as False Philosophy in 
Robert Elsmere in Our Day, vol. III, 
Jan. 1889, pp. 13-16. 

Robert Elsmere's new Christianity exam- 
ined. The New York Ledger, Jan. 5, 

1889. Reprinted as False History in 
Robert Elsmere in Our Day, vol. III. 
Feb. 1889, pp. 146-151. 

Examination and Education. In The 
American Supplement to the Nineteenth 
Century for March, 1889, pp. 18-22. 

The Present State of the Evolution Ques- 
tion. The Independent, Oct. 3, 1889. 

Is there Final Cause in Evolution ? The 
Independent, Oct. 10, 1889. 

The Teacher, his Trials and Triumphs. 
The Independent, Nov. 14, 1889. 

First and Fundamental Truths: Being 
a Treatise on Metaphysics. New York 
and London, 1889, x-|-360 pp., 12mo. 

Whither? Whither? Tell Me Where. 
New York, 1889, 47 pp., 12mo., paper. 

The Tests op Various Kinds of Truths. 
Being a Treatise of Applied Logic. 
Lectures delivered before Ohio Wes- 
leyan University on the Merrick 
Foundation. New York and Cincin- 
nati, 1889, 132 pp., 12mo. 

The same. New York, 1891, 12mo. 

[This work is a slight enlargement of Cri- 
teria of Diverse Kinds of Truth, Phi- 
losophical Series, No. 1. See above.] 

Federation of Churches to secure that the 
Gospel be preached to every creature. 
The Christian Union, Feb. 6, 1890. 



Reprinted, with slight omissions, in 
Our Day, vol. V, April, 1890, pp. 359- 
363; also in The Church Review, vol. 
XVII, April, 1890, pp. 132-134. 

The Good that may arise from Revision. 
The Independent, March 15, 1890. 

The Religious Aspect of Evolution. Arti- 
cle First. The New York Ledger, May 
3, 1890. Article Second, May 10, 1890. 

Evils arising from the Church being con- 
trolled by the State. A paper read 
before The American Institute of 
Christian Philosophy, June 3, 1890. 
In Christian Thought, 8th series, 1890, 
pp. 1-6. 

Recent Works on Kant. The Presbyterian 
and Reformed Review, vol. I, July, 
1890, pp. 425-440. 

The Moral and Religious Oversight of 
Students. In Proceedings of the 
Second Annual Convention of the 
College Association of the Middle 
States and Maryland, held at Prince- 
ton College, New Jersey, Nov. 28th 
and 29th, 1890, pp. 83-86. 

The Prevailing Types of Philosophy, 
CAN they reach Reality logically ? 
New York, 1890, vii-f 66 pp., 12mo., 
flexible cloth. 

John Witherspoon and his Times. Phila- 
delphia, 1890, 30 pp., 24mo., paper. 

Federation of the Churches. The Homiletic 
Review, vol. XXI, May, 1891, pp. 396- 
401. 

Our Moral Nature. Being a brief sys- 
tem of Ethics. New York, 1892, vi-}- 
53 pp., 12mo. 

Reality: What Place it should hold in 
Philosophy. A paper read before the 
International Congress of Education 
of the World's Columbian Exposi- 
tion, at Chicago, July 28, 1893. In 
the Addresses and Proceedings of the 
same, pp. K82-686. New York, 1894. 

Philosophy of Reality : Should it be 
favored by America? New York, 
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wasgiven a :fixed position. 

Part of my nn)ther's income was from a policy of insurance piid 
at my father's death, tmd as soon as 1 was al)le to gave anything; out 
of my salary I determined to lay a little by each year, and Avith that 
• ■nd ill view, took a policy in th(^ Equitable Life Assurance Society of 
New York for J^'3,()0<>. That policy i.s now •' paitl up " and is put 
si'curely awAv in ray safe. .  

Some ycars-^lnter, I took another policy for $4.<XXl. That policy 
lias just ended its twerity-year '• Tontine period,'' and the following is 
the result:, I have had the protection of $4,(MJ(J of insurance for 
twenty years for an outkiy of only SSl.OO'a 3'ear, and I con, if I choose'^ 
I ontinue the insurance af^ long as 1 live tc'ithmU amffmthcr outlay on 
iny .;pc(rL Or, if I prefer it. I can terminate the policy and draw in 
■■'ish from the Com,} lany more than the tdfal sum I have paid in 
l>remiums durhig all these twenty years. 

By insiUMn-^ while a young man I ^ .. ..... liisurauce at very low 

rates, and establii^hed a thrifty habit I thus saved petty sums which 
otherwise I should have con.sidered too small to lay by. Fromi time 
to time I increa!»wlniy annual saving.s (and put them into largei* 
premiums). - , 

Other savings I have invested in other ways; From time to time 
I have bought stocks and bonds and real estate.^ Some of my invest- 
ments have yielded ne interest; in the case of others t have lost both 
[)rincipal and interest: still others have turned out well. " - . 

But, comparing the ^averape resnff>i of these, investments Avith my 
life insurance j^olicies. I must admit that the latter have ])roved to be 
■not only my safest, but my best and most satisfying' investment's; 
- and (including the jiolicies referred to above) I now carry S<SO,000 with 
the Equitable (whirh, as everyV>ody kno^vs, is tlie stnmgest financial 
institution of its kind in the Avoiid). l^or is- this all: 1 now have a 
family, and if I die my li'e insurance will make special provision for 
their suj)port. On the other han<l, if I live I can, by converting my 
insuranct! into an. annuity, reap the benefit myself. : 

Much moi-e could be said, but I have written- this much to get 
young men to thhiking, with the Iwpe that many will profit by my 
example. . An Ot.d Pot.k v-holdkr. 

[The above ha.s boen writtJMi tor the E^iJjir.vBLK Rkcori) HI - • ml ref[ue>t. The fads state- i 

would gain additiona] weight if we were permittedto give the naiuo of the writer, who is well known in 
more than one oity iti the United States.— Epitor.] • /" 



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