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age, writes, " his public teachings proved the worth of 

 his religious principles ; notwithstanding my previous 

 knowledge of him, it needed the involuntary utterances 

 of a death-bed to show me all the simplicity of mind 

 and godly sincerity of heart with which those principles 

 had been fostered. As he had been an interpreter of 

 God's works, he had been also a diligent student of 

 His revealed Word, and a truly humble Clnistian." 



When the pleasure of meeting his class was denied 

 him, he often spoke of his pupils ; and as he had 

 conscientiously laboured to advance their studies, 

 persuaded himself that some of them would live to 

 interpret his oral teachings and extend the knowledge 

 of his philosophical views to another generation. The 

 anticipation that his finished labours would stand the 

 test of time, and that his outlined work would be 

 filled up and coloured by those he had taught and 

 indoctrinated so well, were like pleasant breathings, 

 if not anaesthetic repose, to the Goodsir couch, and 

 could not fail to lend a halo to the hopes of a reputa- 

 tion beyond the grave. 



As evidences of his philosophic, religious, and specu- 

 lative leanings to the very last, he had placed on a 

 table beside his bed ;i large folio copy of Sir Isaac 

 New 1 1 ms works, in five volumes, the Bible, and a work 

 on Crystallography, with a tray of models to illustrate 

 tlif intended publication <>f his views of organic form 

 on a triangular basis thai magnwm opus of his latter 

 day idea] life. 



lie was attended during his lasl illness by bis old 

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