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manes, nor did he ever come under the influence of 

 Westcott, or of Lightfoot, or of Hort. 



And, when the intellectual struggles began, he 

 seems in early years to have owed very little to any 

 Christian writer, Bishop Butler alone excepted. 



His summers were spent in Eoss-shire, and there 

 is no doubt these months were of great use to him. 

 He was perfectly unharassed so far as pecuniary cares 

 or family ambition were concerned, and he had abun- 

 dant time to think. Years afterwards, Mr. Darwin 

 said to him : ' Above all, Eomanes, cultivate the habit 

 of meditation,' and Mr. Eomanes always quoted this 

 as a most valuable bit of advice. His intellectual 

 development was rapid in these Cambridge years, and 

 it is not improbable that his slowly growing mind had 

 not been ill served by being allowed to mature in 

 absolute freedom, although he himself bitterly re- 

 gretted and, through his whole life, deplored the lack 

 of early training, and of mental discipline. 



Through these early Cambridge years he still 

 cherished the idea of Holy Orders, and with his friend, 

 Mr. Cautley, he had many talks about the career they 

 both intended to choose. They spent a part of one long 

 vacation together, and occupied themselves in reading 

 theology such books as * Pearson on the Creed,' 

 Hooker's ' Ecclesiastical Polity,' Bishop Butler's 

 1 Analogy,' and in writing sermons. Some of Mr. 

 Eomanes' are still extant, and are curious bits of 

 boyish composition crude, unformed in style, and 

 yet full of thought, and showing a remarkable know- 

 ledge of the Bible. 



He seems to have been, for the rest, a bright, good- 

 tempered, popular lad, always much chaffed for absent- 

 minded mistakes, for his long legs, for his peculiar 

 name j and he certainly gave no one the faintest idea 



