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those circumstances had been different he might now be remembered 

 as one of the greatest of engineers, surgeons, or politicians, or he 

 might have died Chief Justice of England or Archbishop of West- 

 minster — one can hardly conceive of his taking the via media which 

 leads to Canterbury. 



Whether a professor is usually a hero to his demonstrator I 

 cannot say ; I only know that, looking back across an interval of 

 many years and a distance of half the circumference of the globe, I 

 have never ceased to be impressed with the manliness and sincerity 

 of his character, his complete honesty of purpose, his high moral 

 standard, his scorn of everything mean or shifty, his firm determina- 

 tion to speak what he held to be truth at whatever cost of popularity. 

 And for these things "I loved the man, and do honour to his memory, 

 on this side idolatry, as much as any." 



T. Jeffery Parker. 

 Otago University, Dunedin, N.Z. 



