Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... To these mental and moral characters there was added religious belief and religious culture. He seemed to us to exemplify in an e n inent degree the true attitude of faith knd science. They appeared the right hand and the left hand of his being; set over against each other, indeed, antagonizing each other's action in a sense, yet both working together in mutual confidence and love for the good of the whole being. His religious views never seemed to hamper his scientific conceptions, nor his science circumscribe the domain of his faith. He never seemed to hope or fear that his crucible would analyze the human soul, but in quiet and courageous trust he lived a true scientist and a true Christian. His scientific labors have been so interwoven with the history of this Society that they do not need formal memorial here. We but repeat the spontaneous judgment of those most intimately associated with his investigations, as well as those who have listened to his productions, when we characterize them in terms of high esteem and admiration. JOHN BAPTIST FEULING, PH. I). BY STEPHEN n. CARPENTER. LL. D. Professor of Logo and Englieh Literature In the Univereliy of Wisconsin. Dr. John Baptist Fettling, Professor of Modern Languages and Comparative Philology in the University of Wisconsin, died at Fayette, Iowa, March 10, 1878, after a lingering illness of more than six mouths. Dr. Feuling was born in the classic city of Worms, Germany, February 12th, 1838. He attended the public school until his tenth year. In 1843 he entered the Gymnasium, from which he graduated nine years after, in 1857, with a first degree, and entered the University at Giessen to study Philology. His studies at the University were interrupted by being called to serve in the army, but after two m...