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trees into Britain (including some useful in medicine), and 

 his collections stimulated natural research. Although he 

 made no discoveries himself, he discovered those who 

 made them, and he helped to publish them to the world, 

 and by his aid constantly given to scientific workers he 

 furthered the progress of knowledge in many departments. 



His shining example of philanthropy had an effect 

 upon the generation that followed him which it would be 

 hard to measure. The voice he raised for liberty and 

 righteousness in human affairs may have had but a small 

 hearing in the democratic movement in his own country, 

 then in its infancy. But in American history his patient 

 labours during a critical epoch entitle him to a place of 

 honour among those who helped the builders of the new 

 commonwealth. Much he longed that it might be 

 founded sure and deep upon righteousness, and he did 

 what he could, and that was something, to further this 

 end. The present work has sought to show what Franklin 

 owed to the comradeship of Fothergill. 



This part of our subject would be incomplete if it was 

 not added that the strength of Fothergill and his success 

 in all his work were the outcome of a habit of mind which 

 referred all things to a higher Power. For indeed beyond 

 the lines of influence which have been spoken of, there is 

 the force of character itself, something that belongs to 

 the ego, that eludes analysis it may be, yet is most potent, 

 made in the likeness of the Divine. The man is greater 

 than his work. The true life is a poem : there is rhythm 

 in its duty, and euphony in its love, and in its joy the 

 very play of assonance. 



There have been not a few in the history of the medical 

 profession, who have lived in its highest places lives of 

 noble simplicity, unspoiled by courts, whom neither 

 wealth nor fame have turned out of their calm course, 

 moving, as it has been said, " like the lights of heaven, 

 undisturbed by the admiration of which they are the 

 object." These were men who looked beyond the pheno- 

 mena of things, and suffered their souls to be guided in all 

 their ways by love and truth. They were a^e^irrot, KOI 



