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friend responsible rather for my part of the conversation than 

 for his own. The foregoing sentences contain, at least, the 

 outUne of the scheme of thought which he sketched. 



To this meeting Dr. Carpenter recurred several times 

 in the home-talk that evening, over the tea-table, the 

 microscope, and the familiar game of backgammon. On 

 retiring to rest he took a hot-air bath to ease the stiffness 

 and rheumatic pains which the damp weather rendered 

 unusually severe, when the accidental overturning of the 

 lamp inflicted such injuries that after a few hours — which 

 closed in tranquil sleep — he passed quietly away. 



Four days later, on Friday, November 13, his remains 

 were laid near those of a venerated relative to whom he 

 had been deeply attached, in the Highgate Cemetery. 

 Ere the last office was complete, Dr. Sadler spoke of him 

 as teacher and investigator, as companion and helper, and 

 added the following words on that aspect of his life which 

 it is especially the object of this volume to illustrate : — 



At a time when religion and science have appeared too 

 often unhappily divided, it is hardly possible to overestimate 

 the significance of their union in him, of his steadfast avowal 

 of his own faith, and his personal sympathy with and participa- 

 tion in Christian worship. It is hardly possible to overrate the 

 value of the contributions from his pen on religious subjects. 

 To none, indeed, of those who have given up all religious pro- 

 fession, was a narrow and unspiritual theology, such as has been 

 too often preached, more repellent than to him. But in the 

 home of his childhood he breathed an atmosphere both of 

 religious freedom and of religious feeling, and was led by pre- 

 cept and example to think freely and earnestly on religious 

 subjects, and the result was that his large intellectual culture 

 did not repress in him a most devotional spirit, but gave it a 

 wider range, and enabled it to soar up higher, foreshadowing, 

 I trust, the way in which 



"That in us which thinl<s and that which feels 

 Shall everlastingly be reconciled, 

 And that which questioneth with that which kneels," 



