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more for others than himself. All intercourse with him 

 gave the assurance of his thorough belief that the book 

 of revelation and that of nature were from the same 

 hand, and that this would be manifest one day, though 

 now the last was but half-read, and the first, perhaps, mis- 

 read. His delight in tracing the proofs of the creation 

 of man's mind in the likeness of his Maker's, as shown 

 in the works of both, was evident to every one who had 

 looked over his museum under his guidance, long before 

 his lectures were published. When he referred to our 

 Lord, it was usually as the Adorable Redeemer, an 

 epithet which may seem somewhat formal in the in- 

 creasing preference for the Saxon element in our lan- 

 guage, but which fitly expressed the deep reverence 

 with which he ever named Him. He delighted to 

 observe or hear anything which led to the inference that 

 those whose genius he admired had been led, sooner or 

 later, to listen to the voice of that Adorable Redeemer, 

 and learn of Him. An instance of this may be seen in 

 his remarks on Shakspeare, when relating his visit to 

 Stratford-on-Avon in First Impressions of England. I 

 remember discussing with him the various passages in 

 Shakspeare which allude to religious thought or feel- 

 ing, especially that in Richard the Second, in which the 

 poor king in prison, speaking of the multitude of 

 thoughts fighting within him, says, 



"The better sort, 



As thoughts of things divine, are intermix'd 

 With scruples, and do set the Word itself 

 Against the Word : 



As thus, Come, little ones ; and then again, 

 It is as hard to come, as for a camel 

 To thread the postern of a needle's eye." 



I do not, however, remember Hugh Miller's remarks 

 with sufficient accuracy to set them down. 



