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one in my condition, nevertheless necessity is a ruthless 

 master. At present, that I am comparatively well, my 

 literary occupations form my chief pleasure, and all the 

 regret I experience is, that my strength is so inadequate 

 to my wishes. Should my health remain as it is now I 

 shall do very well, and I cannot but hope, since we have 

 recently passed through a tremendous spell of cold wea- 

 ther without my receiving any injury. All my prospects 

 as a public teacher of anatomy are utterly destroyed, as I 

 can never hope, nor would I venture if I could, again to 

 resume my labours. My success promised to be very 

 great, but it has pleased God that I should move in a dif- 

 ferent direction." 



In the following year, continuing to write for the sup- 

 port of his family till the last month of his existence, he 

 was taken from them, and in him they lost their all. 

 Twelve years of unfaltering industry, that had carried 

 his name into all the countries where science is culti- 

 vated, had not enabled him to accumulate property ; and 

 ended by consigning him to the grave, ere he reached 

 the noon-day of life, or had put forth, to their full extent, 

 the vast intellectual powers, with which he was endowed. 

 In all this, there is much more to grieve than astonish 

 us. As a physician and surgeon, Dr. Godman's busi- 

 ness was never considerable. At the very beginning of 

 his professional career, his mind took a different direc- 

 tion. No human heart was ever imbued with a deeper 

 thirst for knowledge, or warmed with a nobler love of 



