Professor Peirce, now over seventy years old, was much the same as ever.

He went on in the cars with us, and was reading Mallock's 'Is Life Worth Living ?' and I asked, 'Is it ?' to which Professor Peirce replied, 'Yes, I think it is.' Then I asked, 'If there is no future state, is life worth living ?' He replied, 'Indeed it is not; life is a cruel tragedy if there is no immortality.' I asked him if he conceived of the future life as one of embodiment, and he said 'Yes; I believe with St Paul that there is a spiritual body....' "Professor Peirce's paper was on the 'Heat of the Sun;' he considers the sun fed not by impact of meteors, but by the compression of meteors.

I did not think it very sound.

He said some good things: 'Where the truth demands, accept; what the truth denies, reject.' "Concord, Mass., 1879.

To establish a school of philosophy had been the dream of Alcott's life; and there he sat as I entered the vestry of a church on one of the hottest days in August.