New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-07-09
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Death of DR.. James Marsh.


and Ittelectual Philosophy in the University Of
Vermont, died Oh tic morning Of the Sd inst. at
the residence of his brother-in-law. David Read
Esq, ia Colchester Vt, near Burlington. in the
friy-eignth year Of hi, agc--ulera prolrac,cd sid
n,'t painful iiiues-.
When this event was enormously announced a
few week. since, it called forth the expression,
through tic newspapers, OF general grieF-shared
iy tie great body Of scholars who owe the science
to ".ish the labors Of his life were mainly de-
voted. but felt with deeper intensity By the more
limited number Of hi. former pupils and personal
friends. Tscr hearts were for moment relieved
By hr intelligence Of his partial recovery; but tie
event, which even then daily expected, ha.
row transpired, and, save the. living power which
they left behind in the heart, Of ths.e whose lives
vra moulded by his teachings, his hs ability, his
profound requirements and tie stainless integrity
oi h. Character have passed from, the earth for
cv,r He vii be mounedhy all who have learned
nueht of his lie and Dir, labors bu, those whose
good fortune itwa to wi;ncs. the purity and truth
f'Hcs. Of ;lo one Or 10 receive the benefit Of the
other viii feel that. to ;hemseve. personally, his
lj.s IS one which many years can.o; repair.
lis character wasons which should not be rudely
pta..ed and yet, in common with all who feel in
ttcir hearts that they have received cood be ,ond
estimate from ms Instructions, we feel it sad aud
snc'-d privilege gratefully to express, though in
broken words, convictions Of his greatness and
hs worth
The events in his life were few and in them
sel,es Of lie grca; Significance He i native
of Hartford, beautiful little town Oh the baxa. Of
the Connecticut, OH the Eastern DO rider Of Yer
mont H. graduated al MISUNDERSTANDING had
for his lcllow-s,udents DR.. WHEELER and Prof.
IOEEgY--Onc now the President and the other
Professor Of Languages in the institution where
the iabors o. his last Years were spent. For
short timr he was Tutor a, Dartmouth, but soon
went t. Andoycr TO prosecute his Theological stu
dies. Leaving there and preaching while in la.
native town, hi. failing health made desirable
'dcnce in a Southern climate and he accepted
Proirssor,hip in Hampton and Sidney College in
Virginia. whore lie resided several years On his
return he vas elected to the Presidency of the Uni-
sersiry Of Vermont, but finding that the duties of
tins hi.h Office diverted more than lac desired, his
studies from the Philosophy, to which bis life
nun Nf"itb' Nv -u'u IL ana uNtt ItVu ui' lp-
fcssorsLip which Inc held NJ the date of his death.
The record is brief and bare of striking Incl
dent but the life, whose few years it embraces,
crowded into itself more OF personal Development,
Of profound thought, of earnest and fruitful though
uuId eudpavOr, of genuine worth, and of the high
csi usefulness, than We hive ever known in any
other. His general scholarship, his acquaintance
wiih the Science Philosophy Literature and Art
Of ancient and Of modern timas, was carried to a
hi,ht Of which our country has seen but few ok.
amples With the FORKS of the divine Plato lie
Was especially familiar, rcyerencihg them the
highest ciior,s of unaided Intellect, and finding
frrc r,fu,ation clear aud decisive OF almost
>c.cry f.l.e doctrine in Philosophy and Morals
which pride aud couceii accustomed to claim
for the late; anI mere cn. h,cncd ages, but which
le found propounded, wnh even more force and
precision. by he Soph,ts and wisdom .nonger-
of tie Old. DAYS. The wealth Of Antiquity and
the more gIuerug, it not more valuable, treasures
o. Modern tiIses, in all departments of thought
aud speculation. he had made his own But the
d.uucti,c feature Of his intellectual habits was hi.
suelc.cyed devotion to the highest eood-the
earnest uucune iu.g ht, tse logical power and the
uusWtr inc courage with which he seized great
principles Of Truth and Duty, as they revealed
themselves to his own soul, and built them up into
a glorious compile of Moral and Religious phiioso'
ply mass. We a.d imposing but Of exquisite beauty,
10 Sl.ch tue Reason of man might humh.y and
levcsentY worship. At al early stage Of his ,heo-
logical Studio. his own reflection led MIN to doubt
AMI .oou To- reject, the system Of Philosophy which
lG received from h. teachers, and which generally
prevailed both in England and America. Many OF
IT.. lsem4s were in conflict with thc prViou1dcsi
o.u,ictious 81 hi, reason. He was told IN the
J. cuu,-rnom. from the pages of LOCKE that all
our knowledge {, derived from the revelations OF
scr.c; aii though the shallow soph,try 10y which
Ills doctrine vas sought to be sustained had been
mos. n..i.y exposed and proved to be in contra
d.-,.un 90 the ciearest. most undoubied facts of
consciousness. ,hou.aads cd years before II, rcputed
O. lasr ,av the E.h,, hc found it elevated to the
pride OF place ana power ia every school oi PHI
lsppl, iu this and In other laui'. Tie read IN
PALrY dat the personality Of man-iho highest
Llne1 Cd hununit,--tAe bcIEg al; the soul--diherS
not g. II Il from tEc faculties which belong t.
b.utc, Tho philosophy which then IN VOC az
asked lin &, believe that in the nature OF the ar.
dess,audiar, shared it Is in degrees OF infinite
diversity Ly ;hc individuals Of the race, aad liable
usi alwo,s j. TO error. ar, contained all the con-
trolling price, pie, OF OF. being; that man Is the
Crtaf.rt and nu. the crea en- OF his motives That
tie law Of cause and effect peryaic' the spiritual,
"a. i, does tie natural world; tat the ucts o. the
face ,iA are thus determined by law ab c. IA +:
that IA fact TIE power OF the vii to act freely -