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over which they had been cogitating was immediately 

 solved. 



While addressing an assemblage of printers and their 

 friends, at a social meeting in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, 

 he showed incidentally a familiarity with their work, which 

 led a young printer, on leaving, to speak of the speech " of 

 the compositor." Being asked to which of the speakers 

 he referred, he replied, " the one with spectacles," whose 

 thorough acquaintance with their craft he imagined could 

 only be the result of long practice in its details. 



Allusion has been made in a preceding letter to a lecture 

 delivered to medical students. It was shortly afterwards 

 published along with other lectures, 1 by request of the Medi- 

 cal Missionary Society, at whose instance it was written. We 

 have already quoted from it, as illustrating his experience on 

 entering hospital practice. It grapples with the existence 

 of evil, and apparent frustrations of design, pronouncing 

 the, solution of all that is inexplicable in the morphology 

 and teleology of the mortal state, to be attainable only 

 when design at last triumphs in the heavenly life. The 

 strain pervading the lecture is to be found in others of his 

 writings, especially the article on Chemistry and Natural 

 Theology, 2 and an address on the Resurrection, to medical 

 students. 3 



Along with a copy of the lecture forwarded to Mr. D. 

 Macmillan, is a note saying, " I send a sermori, which, when 

 you have nothing better to do, read. . . . Some bits of it 

 you will read, as I wrote them, with thoughts of ourselves ; 



1 "On the Character of God, as inferred from the Study of Human 

 Anatomy." "Addresses to Medical Students." Edinburgh : A. and 

 C. Black, 1856. 



3 "British Quarterly Review." 



3 " Religio Chemici." Macmillan and Co. 



