6 GEOEGE JOHN ROMANES 



And to this raw boy, fresh from a secluded and 

 somewhat narrow atmosphere, plunged for the first 

 time into a great society, brought for the first time 

 under some of the influences of the then ' Zeitgeist,' 

 into contact with some of the leaders of thought, 

 entrance into the University was the beginning of an 

 entirely new life. 



He entered Cambridge, half-educated, utterly un- 

 trained, with no knowledge of men or of books. He 

 left it, to all intents and purposes, a trained worker 

 and earnest thinker, with his life work begun that 

 work which was an unwearied search after truth, a 

 work characterised by an ever-increasing reverence 

 for goodness, and, as years went on, by a disregard 

 for applause or for reward. His Cambridge life was 

 happy ; he made several friends, chief of whom was 

 Mr. Proby Cautley, the present rector of Quainton 

 near Aylesbury. 



He enjoyed boating, and once narrowly escaped 

 drowning in the Cam. 



At first George Komanes fell completely under 

 Evangelical influences, at that time practically the 

 most potent religious force in Cambridge. He was a 

 regular communicant, and it is touching to look at 

 the little Bible he used while at Cambridge, worn, 

 and marked, and pencilled, with references to sermons 

 which had evidently caught the boy's attention. He 

 used to attend meetings for Greek Testament study, 

 and enjoyed hearing the distinguished preachers who 

 visited the University. 



But of the intellectual influences in the religious 

 world of the University he knew nothing. F. D. 

 Maurice was still in Cambridge, but he seems to have 

 repelled rather thaii to have attracted George Eo- 



