OF JOHN EDDOWES BOWMAN, ESQ. 79 
happy in the possession, to care much about the 
fame, of science. And yet, by loving truth in 
the first place with an undivided affection, he had 
secured more of the adventitious honours that 
sometimes follow in her train, than many of her 
disloyal and interested servitors. During the 
comparatively few years that he was known to the 
scientific world, he had risen rapidly in reputation, 
and acquired the esteem and confidence of many 
eminent men. He eminently manifested, in the 
pursuit of his favourite studies, that self-abandon- 
ment and unconsciousness of ulterior objects 
which a popular writer of the present day, Mr. 
Carlyle, has declared to be an invariable accom- 
paniment of the higher forms of human character, 
and without which, it may be safely affirmed, no 
great proficiency in any branch of knowledge will 
ever be attained. To look too keenly to the 
effect of our inquiries on other men’s opinions 
respecting us, and to measure their value by too 
direct a reference to the utilities and conventional 
proprieties of the world, is the surest way to stifle 
all free, independent views of truth, and to strike 
at the very root of deep thought and thorough 
attainment. arly in life, the attention of Mr. 
Bowman was directed to a particular region of 
the great field of natural science, and he pursued 
