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operations in the varied structures of organisms. Of 

 the imaginative and ideal he had a larger share than 

 he ever ventured to express publicly, even when treat- 

 ing of subjects capable of being illuminated by a 

 lively sentiment. But he stuck close to his technical 

 teaching and his teleological doctrines. Berkeley and 

 Coleridge but rarely gained a Goodsir utterance ; 

 Shakespeare and Milton never crossed his path. As a 

 matter-of-fact person, he continued the even tenor of 

 his way, and seldom entered the arena of debate or 

 controversial disputation. The marked exceptional 

 instance to this equanimity of purpose was his buck- 

 ling on the armour of orthodoxy to counteract the 

 threatened inroads of human science upon the domain 

 of his infallible Pneuma. In protesting against the 

 new doctrines or hypotheses quoad man's origin and 

 place in nature, he came forth in the strength of the 

 I 'salmist of old, not however in the lanQ-uao-e of Eastern 

 imagery, but in bold Scottish vernacular, admitting of 

 no compromise. There was not a shadow of doubt in 

 Goodsir's mind as to the teachings of science ffuidinsr 

 man to the borders of a higher region, and the standard, 

 which he held aloft, was inscribed Divine Revelation, 

 and no surrender. 



Holding himself to be a guardian of his pupils, 

 and showing a kindly interest in their well-doing, his 

 teachings imperceptibly diffused a beneficial influence 

 over the great majority of them, and in other walks 

 than the Btrictly anatomical Ee possessed the faculty 

 of inspiring others with his own enthusiastic love of 



