Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-17
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mass of details regarding MURDERS, SUI
cides. runaway matches and trivial every
dav accidents to life and limb, inter
snersed with an occasional Republican
editorial. The most serious item of new
during this short period, at least, it hal
ignored altogether. 1t has been neces
sary to wait for the coming OF the New
York papers by mail to learn of the deatf
of Professor Arnold Henry Guyot, the
eminent classmate and friend in scienct
of Agassiz. While Guyot was at home
with the most learned men of the world
and their recognized teacher in his spec
metaphysical geography-hewa was known
to the school boys and girls of the United
States in every seminary of the land
for through his excellent text books they
got perhaps their first ideas of an actual
God in the creation. The deceased was
about 50 years old when he reached the
end of a life of restless activity in scien-
tiic research and painstaking laborious
gen~erallzations. Day after day, accoutred
with meteorological Instruments, he
tramped the Alps, until it may be said
with loyalty to the truth that there did
not remain a surface acre of that histori-
cal mountain that he had not measured
and analysed. While Stephen Alexander
of old Nassau Hall wandered without
losing his way among the stars, Arnold
Guyot trod the solid earth. While the
formers utterances ''materialized the
harmony of the Spheres" the latter's
words made epics of rocks, idyls OF
brooks and living 'pastorals of fauna and
fora. The grand old Swiss, after his
collegiate studies had been completed,
served nine years as Professor of History
and Physical Geography in the Neuf.
chatel Academy. Yielding to the re.
peated solicitations and urgency of Prof.
Agassiz to come to America, he immi-
grated to this continent, so rich in mate
rial for his study, in l84S. Guyot was
very difident about this step, for he con.
fessed to the writer that the bristling
c~rookedness and difficulties of the En-
glish language frightened him. He was
engaged at once to deliver a course Of
lectures at Cambridge. These lectures,
which he made in French, and which,
strange to say, have never yet been prop.
erly translated, were afterwards pub.
lished in a book entitled earth and
Man." OF this ingenious and profound
work anything like a criticism at this
late day would be superduous, if not out
of place. In 1855 he went to Princeton,
or Nassau Hall, or the College Of
New Jersey, as it is ~variously called,
in which college he remained until his
death, a few days ago, in charge of the
department of Physical Geography and
it's cognate science, Geology. In 1872
Professor Guyot, accompanied by his
wife, a daughter of ex-Gov. Olden Of
New Jersey, made a tour of California,
and on his return home went to Carson
and Virginia on a visit to two of his
former pupils who had cast their lot in
the Far West. At that time the old
gentleman was about 20 years of age,
but he had not been in the Internationa
Hotel, Virginia, five minutes before he had
preparedhimself with compass and barom'
eter to scale Mt. Davidson, though it was
a very warm day in the middle of July,
He climbed up easily, and when he bad
gained the summit, he looked down with
a smile on his good natured face to see
his youthful companion crestfallen, strug
Cling and sweating in vain to keep pace
with him. At that time the deceased
talked freely with regard to his literary
labors. He said that his life's work was
nearly done, and he felt that his mission
on earth would be completed if he could
get his last work in shape to be accurately
published. He referred to his lecture.
on Premordial Man, which involve {
discussion of the first books of Genesi,
and the facts revealed in connection
Herewith by scientific investigation
He lived longer than he expected to, and
he must have died easy. A man WHIT
lives with a single purpose such as his il
view, and who succeeds in crystallizinl
SO vast an amount of erudition and wis
dom as Guyot had accumulated may wei
be resigned to die. Guyot with all hi
learning was an humble and consisten
Christian. He was one among the few
of whom it may be said they get no dis
taste for religion from feeding on science
He was a Presbyterian. and believes
strictly in "God the Father Almight,
and Jesus Christ. his only Son, on
Lord" As his friend Agassiz, he di'
not entertain the idea of any conflict be
tween science and religion as reveale'
in Scripture. He delighted in natur
not az mtch for the immadiate nleasur