1890 ME. AUBEEY MOOBE-'LUX MUNDI' 261 



there, and yet it is impossible not to realise also for 

 how much that time counted in his life. 



Many influences were working in him : a ripening 

 judgment, a growth of character, a deepening sense 

 of the inadequacy of scientific research, philosophical 

 speculation, and artistic pleasures to fill ' the vacuum 

 in the soul of man which nothing can fill save faith in 

 God.' l And now Oxford, with all the beauty still left 

 to her, with all the associations which haunt her, with 

 all the extraordinary witching spell which she knows 

 so well how to exercise Oxford, the home of ' lost 

 causes ' and also of forward movements, Oxford came 

 to be for four brief years his home. 



1890 opened with the death of Mr. Aubrey Moore. 

 Only a very few weeks before his too early death, Mr. 

 Moore had been present at the Aristotelian Society, 2 

 and had heard the joint papers contributed by Pro- 

 fessor Alexander, the Rev. S. Gildea, and Mr. Romanes 

 on the ' Evidences of Design in Nature.' 



Here, again, Mr. Romanes showed how far he had 

 receded from the materialistic point of view. In his 

 paper he quoted passages from Aubrey Moore's essay 

 in i Lux Mundi ' (just published), and says : 



Yet once more, it may be argued, as it has been 

 argued by a member of this Society in a recently pub- 

 lished essay and this an essay of such high ability 

 that in my opinion it must be ranked among the very 



1 See Thoughts on Religion, p. 92. 



2 Mr. Komanes had belonged for many years to the Aristotelian 

 Society, and had contributed papers to the Journal of the Society. He 

 also once belonged to the Psychological Club, which used to meet at Pro- 

 fessor Groom Robertson's house. The other members of the club were Mr. 

 Francis Galton, Mr. Sully, Mr. Shadworth Hodgson, Professor Edgeworth, 

 Professor Dunstan, Mr. Edmund Gurney, Mrs. Bryant, and one or two others. 



