vii.] MARRIED LIFE. 1G7 



judgment rebelled. You rightly say that as his age 

 matured " his notions were getting complete and correct ;" 

 but this makes one regret the more that he was not con- 

 tent with holding his crude opinions himself, but must 

 deliver tlu-in as a testimony which the progress of the 

 age demanded of him, although he might have been led 

 to suspect them when he found that he had not one 

 adherent. This terrible obstinacy and intellectual pride 

 invariably wricks itself, leaving no trace behind it, 

 because it utterly contemns the support or advice of any 

 class of men. In some cases this desperate struggle 

 seems to have worked him up into a sort of mania, which 

 I such a passage as that at vol. ii,, foot of p. 425, 

 third edition. On the whole, except the uses I have 

 mentioned above, I think those of the book are of an 



rely negative kind. In truth, except his warm and 

 affecting piety, and his fond zeal for his school and 

 scholars, what are the fixed principles to be found in his 



: what are the lessons of polity, civil or religious, 

 which your 500 lady wishes to impress upon the 

 governors of the country ? 



' For myself I have read the book with the sincerest 



fleasure and no little admiration ; and I have gathered, 

 do trust, some useful and enduring lessons. There are 

 some very charminn |>,i>-iovs in his journals, and his 

 biographer appears to have executed his task with extra- 

 , fidelity and impartiality. In very many of 

 Arnold's opinions on disputed subjects I find an echo of 

 own, and his opinions were so heterogeneous that 

 almost everyone probably does the >ame, and hence 

 perhaps a clue to the popularity of the book. But on 

 ount I do not lean to the coincidence as very 

 igthening to my own mind.' 



ssion of 1844ir> found Forbes once more at 



;>ost in the Natural Philosophy class-room; but tint. 

 llne>s h;id not lefi him the man it found him he felt 

 >elf, and confessed to his friend Mr. fatten in the 

 ving letter ; 



