Excerpt from The Calyx, 1907 It is none the less a fact that he is going to retire at the end of this year andsurrender his chair to a younger and more efficient man. It is hard to leave this beautiful Valley, this salubrious and delightful climate, these interesting and ex cellent scotch-irish people, this faculty of scholarly gentlemen, this delicious work in Philosophy, and, above all, these splendid young men, the lite of the Never again in this world will he find such a congenial environment. He makes this-(sac: rifice and turns his back on all these privileges because he is convinced that his work here is ended, and that some other man, more skilled, should take his place and guide these imperial young minds to the throne of truth. His work in the world, however, may not yet be over. He has no desire to fold his hands in ease, but hopes to find in the use of' his pen for the press, and of his voice in the pulpit and on the platform, that there is still for him a field of active usefulness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.