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and he gradually sank, the bodily strength declining but 

 the mind remaining clear to the last. He died at Colwyn 

 Bay, in N. Wales, on the 12th May, 1884. His remains 

 were interred in the churchyard of St. Paul's, Kersal, near 

 the spot where one of his oldest and most intimate friends 

 hopes some time also to rest. 



This notice would not be complete without some reference 

 to Dr. Smith's moral characteristics. To most of us these 

 were familiar, but those who come after us should know 

 that in his case an intellect of high order was united to a 

 character of the purest and noblest type. The most marked 

 trait in his character, it seems to us, was a wide, to some it 

 might seem an almost inconceivably wide benevolence, a 

 benevolence which seemed capable of embracing all except 

 the unworthy within its folds. It was this that led him to 

 associate with men of the most diverse character and aims, 

 extracting from each specimen of humanity a something 

 with which he could sympathise, putting on one side or 

 excusing what was uncongenial to his nature in each and 

 establishing bonds, some stronger some weaker, which in 

 their totality gave him a sense of relationship to humanity 

 at large. This wide toleration may serve to explain the 

 fact which may sometimes have been observed, that two 

 men mutually repellent and unwilling to associate together 

 might both have been warm friends of his. To us he 

 seemed sometimes to be the centre of a system or con- 

 stellation, the individual members of which knew little of 

 each other, but were all united to him by bonds of sympathy. 

 His extreme conscientiousness and high sense of honour 

 appear even in his works, leading him scrupulously to 

 weigh all that could be said on either side of an argu- 

 ment, and to give every man his proper share of merit, 

 refusing sometimes even to credit himself with what was 

 manifestly his due. This great conscientiousness was 

 occasionally even injurious to him by hindering him in 



