MEMOIRS. 



cause it satisfied at once his passion for righteous- 

 ness and his intellectual craving for unity. Hence 

 he approached questions like that of evolution with 

 a perfect fearlessness about the result, and but 

 lately he was encouraging others to approach the 

 criticism of the Old Testament in the same spirit. 



It is harder to speak of what he was to those 

 who knew him intimately : the patient teacher 

 ever ready to explain difficulties to his pupils, and 

 lavish of his knowledge and of his best thoughts in 

 conversation with his friends : the life and soul of 

 Common-room, and the enlivener of many a dull 

 meeting with his quick repartee and sparkling 

 humour : the constant witness to us of the triumph 

 of spirit over matter : who while gifted with a body 

 which could scarcely fail to make a man constantly 

 self-conscious, and which, quickly wearied by 

 physical effort, must have tended to make him 

 fretful and sensitive, yet bore the burden so that 

 we forgot that he had a burden to bear, and strove 

 with the fretfulness till it seemed almost to have 

 passed away. The most athletic undergraduate, 

 with all his admiration for the prowess of the river 

 and the Parks, yet was moved no less 



" Beside that strong 



Rare spirit, fettered to a stubborn body, 

 Endeavouring to subdue it and inform it 

 With its own splendour." 



To know him slightly was consistent with being 



