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scholars of his generation who came into contact with 

 him. At his death there passed away not only a 

 strangely fascinating man, gifted with brilliancy of 

 insight and sympathy ; not only that most excellent 

 thing a good doctor, one whom his colleagues valued 

 highly for his singularly accurate power of diagnosis, 

 and whose therapeutics were pre-eminently successful ; 

 not only a friend whom all who knew grieved to lose, 

 as he was only to be lost to them by death ; but also 

 a perfect treasure-house of learning, profound and 

 varied, full of facts that may never be gathered 

 together again until an equally sane, sound, brilliant, 

 many-sided man, gifted with a like power of constant 

 mental work, occurs. But even then, precisely his 

 combination of gifts and opportunities will not 

 repeat itself, for so many of the things he saw and 

 observed have now passed away into the Ewigkeit 

 unrecorded, to my undying regret, by the man whose 

 make of mind — tolerant, scholarly, and humorous — 

 was so well suited to do justice to them. You may, 

 as I have often done, blame him for not having left 

 behind him in books all that part that could be left. 

 He has, however, left enough in manuscript to fill 

 volumes on all manner of branches of obscure learn- 

 ing, mainly on early English literature and Semitic 

 tradition. The most complete among these manu- 

 scripts is a work on the idea involved in sacrificial 

 rites ; but I, who for many years was his under- 

 worker on that subject, collecting for him accounts 

 given by travellers of sacrificial rites, and views 



