facts, which are continually in progress
within their reach--a degree of bigotry which is not surpassed in the
history of the "Dark Ages." Verily the shadow of those ages rests upon
the leading institutions of to-day.

1. Response of PROF. CHARLES A. YOUNG, LL.D., of Princeton College.

I must confess this creed of Immortality
Hath not in the light of science much reality;
But all such questions are beyond our science,
And revelation is our sole reliance.

2. PROF. JAMES D. DANA, LL.D., of Yale College.

Though very much hurried--not to say flurried,
I will venture to say, as my answer to-day,
There is nothing in science to prevent our reliance
On the solemn reality of life's immortality.

3. PROF. ASA GRAY, LL.D., Harvard University.

Were the gospel light out, we should all be in doubt,
For science looks on, astride of the fence,
And never can tell us the whither or whence;
But I shrewdly suspect it is slightly inclined
To harmonize now with the Orthodox mind.

4. PROF. JOSEPH LEIDY, M.D., LL.D., University of Pennsylvania.

Your doctrine of life eternal
And everything else supernal
Might well he pronounced an infernal;
Delusion!
For Solomon said at an ancient date
That everything dieth early or late,
And man or beast, or small or great,
Hath but one fate.
Your future life is an awful bore;
I've tried life once, and I want it no more.
You may guess and imagine o'er and o'er,
But where's the proof?
Yet nevertheless, I won't deny
You may live without brains in realms on high,
But as for myself I'd rather not try,
I'd rather die.

5. SIMON NEWCOMB, LL.D., F.R.A.S., etc.

Science deals only with matters of sense,
It has nothing to do with a mere pretence.
'Tis one thing to say, that the soul survives,
And another to say that a cat has nine lives;
But I do not say the one or the other,
Nor affirm nor deny that the monkey's my brother.
I've nothing to say of angels or sprites,
Or the spooks that appear in the darkest of nights.
For if we can't see them, nor chase them nor tree them,
They can't be detected, nor caught and dissected,
So science must be mum--and I, too, am dumb.

6. J. P. LESLEY, State Geologist of Pennsylvania, an ex-Reverend.

Science knows nothing about this matter,
But fancy may come to talk and flatter.
And as all mankind in this agree,
There's a future li