[COYNE] RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE— A SKETCH 18S 



Grass, is moral elevation. " The true introduction, therefore, to this 

 volume is the author's previous work, " Man's Moral Nature." In 

 that book he has discussed the moral nature in the abstract, pointed out 

 its ph3-sical l)asis, and shown its historical development; while the 

 sole object of the present work is to depict an individual moral nature, 

 perhaps the highest that has 3-et appeared." 



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"Man's Moral Nature," had given Dr. Bucke a status not only 

 a? an original investigator and independent thinker, but as a writer 

 of talent. It was with general acquiescence therefore that, on the 

 establishment of the Koyal Society of Canada in April, 1882, he was 

 honoured with selection as one of the original Fellows. 



" Walt Whitman the Man " brought him into closer touch with 

 men of eminence on both sides of the Atlantic. As AVhitman's intimate 

 friend, autlioritative biographer, and redoubtable champion, he was 

 now become a personage in the literary world. 



Among notable literary men and women whose acquaintance he 

 made and with most of whom he corresponded more or less, may be 

 here mentioned the following: in France, Gabriel Sarrazin; in Den- 

 mark, Eudolph Schmidt; in the British Islands, Professors Edward 

 Dowden of Dublin, and York Powell of Oxford, John x\ddington 

 Symonds, AVilliam Sharpe, Ann Gilchrist, Herbert H. Gilchrist, H'. 

 Buxton Forman, Edward Carpenter; in the United States, John Bur- 

 roughs. William D. O'Connor, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Horace L. 

 Traubel, Eobert G. Ingersoll, E. C. Stedman, Thomas B. Harned, 

 Minot J. Savage, Sidney Morse the sculptor, Thomas Eakins the 

 painter, William Sloan Kennedy, Isaac Hull Piatt, Oscar Triggs, 

 Daniel G. Brinton, Henry Howard Furness, Talcott Williams, Francis 

 Howard Williams, Hamlin Garland, Charles G. Garrison, Laurens 

 ]\Iaynard, ]\Iary A. Liverinore, Professor William James. Browning 

 and Tennyson he met in England. 



Lord Tennyson and Walt "\ATiitman carried on a friendly and 

 even affectionate correspondence for twenty years, until it was termin- 

 ated by death. A letter of introduction from the American poet was 

 V sufficient passport to the hospitality of Farringford, where Bucke 

 spent a delightful afternoon and evening with the Tennysons in the 

 summer of 1891. 



Visitors of note found their way to London, from time to time, 

 to enjoy the friendly hospitality of Dr. and Mrs. Bucke. Among 

 these may be specially mentioned Edward Carpenter, who spent some 

 weeks with them in the summer of 1884. 



