CHAPTER I. 



foil) fears. 



■ My heart leaps up when I behold 



A rainbow in the sky : 

 So was it when my life began ; 

 So is it now I am a man ; 

 So be it when I shall grow old, 



Or let me die ! 

 The Child is father of the Man ; 

 And I could wish my day3 to be 

 Bound each to each by natural piety." 



— Wordsworth. 



" There are so many ways of writing biography, that it is vain to 

 inquire which is the best. One canon, however, may be safely insisted 

 on, namely, That the record of a man's career should correspond in tone 

 to the character of him whose life it chronicles." — Dr George Wilson. 



