Excerpt from A Discourse in Memory of Archibald Alexander Hodge: Professor in the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J Philadelphia, as I have said, was the city of Dr. Hodge's ancestors. His great-grand father, his grandfather, and his eminent uncle, lived and died here. His mother's ancestry, in several lines of descent, is still numerously rep resented here. His father was born here in 1797, and married here in 1822. Archibald Alexander was born in Princeton on the 18th day of July, 1823. An old frame-house on the corner of Witherspoon Street is still pointed out as the place where he first saw the light. He grew up in an intellectual atmosphere. During his boyhood his father's study was the meeting-place for all the great lights of Prince ton. The Old and New School controversies, and the New Haven Divinity were discussed in his hearing by men like Dod, the Alex anders, John Maclean, and Charles Hodge. The. 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.