MEMOIRS. 



a small society for the study of economical subjects 

 in a Christian spirit, they turned to Moore, though 

 not a specialist in the subject, for their president 

 and guide. " Science students who wish to believe 

 have lost their best friend," writes one. " I know," 

 so says a very distinguished witness from across 

 the line of ecclesiastical separation, " how the young 

 men loved him, and how he had helped them to 

 rise above their doubts, and take another and more 

 hopeful view of life." But even stronger are two 

 testimonies one from one of the most experienced 

 and veteran Churchmen in the University, judging 

 with the independence of a senior ; and the other 

 from one of the most eminent of younger scientific 

 writers. The former wrote to a friend : 



"Among the men resident in Oxford when 1890 began I 

 know no one who was in my eyes more valuable to the 

 Church or to the University. He was, as it seemed, our 

 Christian philosopher, commanding the respect of good 

 intellects, and capable of entering into many lines of thought, 

 social, political, and theological, and getting a hearing from 

 many kinds of men." 



And the latter speaks of 



"The extraordinary combination of learning, intellect, 

 kindness, and religion, where each was present in the 

 highest degree. It appeared to me that a nature thus 

 endowed in greatest measure with the greatest attributes of 

 humanity was really, in respect of this combination, the 

 most remarkable man I ever met." 



Nor can we withhold the words of a man of 



