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seem to have the effect upon them of destroying geniality and 

 good fellowship, nor of cramping the spirit of practical, material, 

 and unromantic benevolence. They were quite different, too, in 

 their way of talking upon those subjects on which they conceived 



their minds to be " at rest," from the theological students at , 



whom describes as studying as if they had bought tickets 



for the night-train to heaven, and, having requested the conductor 

 to call them when they got there, were trying to get into the most 

 comfortable position to sleep it through. 



