MEMOIRS. xvii 



high official position in the University, who spoke 

 of his as " the very best, purest, and most potent 

 influence that I have known in any human friend 

 or helper." 



Character and intellectual influence had their 

 share in creating such impressions. And in him 

 the two were singularly alike. In both there was 

 the mixture of strength with tenderness, of a grave 

 and wistful earnestness with a "sweet vein of 

 humour" never far below the surface; of perfect 

 and even retiring modesty with unfaltering firm- 

 ness. To describe character is almost as futile as 

 to describe features. It must suffice to say that 

 Oxford misses to-day not only one of its strongest 

 minds, but one of its most loveable characters, 

 reflected in a countenance marked by a singular 

 and delicate charm of intellectual and spiritual 

 distinction. 



It should be easier to speak of his work, for he 

 had a perfectly distinct and individual place in 

 Oxford and in the Church. He was not an excep- 

 tionally learned theologian or original philosopher ; 

 but he was felt to be the person who could handle 

 both philosophy and theology with the sureness 

 and ease of an expert, and bring them into mutual 

 contact and illumination. He was not a "scientific 

 man," but he was recognized as the theologian who 

 not only knew a good deal of science, but who saw 



