an inferior above a superior good, appeal to Edwards's Dissertation on Virtue as having given a marlced im- pulse to what has been called liy various names, such us the new, or the New England, or the Hopkinsian \livinitv. The two last-named dissertations M'ere not published until 1788, thirty j-ears after his death. In 17G4 eighteen of Edwards's sermons were published in a volume, to which was prefixed his memoir by Dr. Samuel Hopkins. In 1777 his celebrated History of Redemption, in 1788 a new volume of his sermons, in 1789 another new volume of his sermons, in 1793 his Miscellaneous Observations on important Theological Sub- jects, in 179G his Remarks on important Theological Con- troversies, were all published at Edinburgh, Scotland. His published works were collected and printed in eight volumes at "Worcester, Mass., under the editor- ship of Dr. Samuel Austin, in 1809, and have been re- published repeatedl3' in England and America. A larger edition of his writings, in ten volumes, including a new memoir, and much new material, especiallj' his Notes on the Bible, was published at New York in 1829, under the editorial care of Rev. Dr. Sereno Edwards Dwight. Parts of this edition have l)een repulilished in England. In 1852, his work entitled Charity and its Fruits was published for the first time, and more re- cently a volume of his writings has been printed in England, which has never been reprinted in America. One of most interesting aspects in which president Edwards may be viewed is that of his influence over Whitefield, Brainerd, and two of his theological pupils, Bellamj' and Hopkins. Another is that of his influ- ence over European scholars and divines. Several of his treatises were published in Great Britain before they were published in America, and the estimate formed of him by Dr. Erskine, Dr. Chalmers, Robert Hall, Dugald Stewart, Sir Henry Moncrief, Sir James Mackintosh, Dr. Priestley, Dr. George Hill, Isaac Tay- lor, and others, is higher than that expressed by men of the same relative position in this countrj'. It is a remarkable fact that, while living in a kind of exile as I a missionary' among the Indians at Stockbridge, he was invited to the presidency of the college at Prince- ton, New Jersey. He was elected to the office on the 26th of September, 1757. In his first response to the trustees he expressed his great surprise at their ap- pointment, and, among other reasons for declining it, he said, with his characteristic simplicit}', "I have a constitution in many respects peculiarly unhappy, at- tended with flaccid solids, vapid, sizj', and scarce flu- ids, and a low tide of spirits, often occasioning a kind of childish weakness and contemptibleness of speech, presence, and demeanor, with a disagreeable dulness and stiffness much unfitting me for conversation, but more especially for the government of a college." He was dismissed from his Stockbridge pastorate January 4, 1758, after having labored in it six years and a half. He spent a part of Januarj' and all of February at Princeton, performing some duties at the college, but was not inaugurated until the IGth of February, 1758. He was inoculated for the small-pox on the 23d of the same month ; and after the ordinary effects of the in- oculation had nearly subsided, a secondary fever su- pervened, and he died on the 22d of March, 1758. He liad then resided at Princeton about nine weeks, and had been the inaugurated president of the college just five weeks. His age was 54 years, 5 months, and 17 days. His father died in his 89th year, only two months before him ; his son-in-law, president Burr, died in his 42d year, only six months before him ; his daughter, ISIrs. President Burr, died in her 27th year, only sixteen days after him ; his wife died in her 40th year, onlj' six months and ten days after him. The throe last named are interred in the same burial- ground at Princeton. (E. A. P.)
Edwards, Jonathan, D.D., the second son and ninth child of the President whose history has been sketched in the preceding article, was born at North-
ampton, Mass., Maj' 26th, 1745. Although each was the president of a college, yet, as the father was not a doctor of divinity, he is familiarly termed the Presi- dent, and the son is distinguished from him as the Doctor. In his early childhood young Edwards was afflicted with an ocular disease, and therefore did not learn to read at so early an age as his powers and in- stincts would have inclined him. In consequence also of his father's ecclesiastical troubles at Northampton, he was deprived of some important facilities for his ed- ucation. "When- 1 was but six years of age," he writes in 1788, "my father removed with his family to Stockbridge, which at that time was inhabited by Indians almost solely, as there were in the town but twelve families of whites, or Anglo-Americans, and perhaps one hundred and fiftj' families of Indians. The Indians being the nearest neighbors, I constantly associated with them ; their boj-s were mj' dailj' school- mates and playfellows. Out of my father's house I seldom heard any language spoken but the Indian. B}' these means I acquired the knowledge of that lan- guage, and a great facility in speaking it. It became more familiar to me than my mother-tongue. I knew the names of some things in Indian that I did not know in English. Even all my thoughts ran in In- dian ; and, though the true pronunciation of the lan- guage is extremely difficult to all but themselves, they acknowledged that I had acquired it perfectly, which, as they said, had never been done before hj any An- glo-American. On account of mj- skill in their lan- guage in general, I received from them many compli- ments applauding my superior wisdom. This skill in their language I have in a good measure retained to this day."