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and created, we recognise the adorable Monarch of all 

 the future.' Such an argument is indeed a reach above 

 the vaguely declamatory theory of Swinburne of man 

 being the master of all things, and above the theory of 

 Feuerbach that finds God merely in the enlarged shadow 

 projected by the Ego. 



His somewhat impaired strength led him to think of 

 a livelihood through little jobs of monumental stone- 

 work in a style superior to that introduced as yet into 

 the countryside, and to this period of observation of 

 the Scottish character acquired through living in the 

 vicinity of farm-houses, villages, churchyards, as the 

 varying means of lodging were afforded him, he ascribed 

 much of the knowledge which he turned to so good an 

 editorial account. In the company, too, of the parish 

 minister Stewart he was happy, for, according to his own 

 conviction and the testimony of many others, he was a 

 man of no ordinary acuteness and of unquestioned 

 pulpit ability. Indeed, Miller never hesitated to declare 

 that for the fibre of his whole thinking he was more 

 indebted to Chalmers and to this almost unknown 

 Cromarty minister than to any two other men. Stewart's 

 power seems to have lain in the detection of subtle 

 analogies and in pictorial verbal power, in which he 

 resembled Guthrie. In an obituary notice in The 

 Witness of Nov. 13, 1847 he dwells with affection on 

 the man, and illustrates admirably the type of intellect 

 and its dangers. 'Goldsmith,' he observes, 'when he 

 first entered upon his literary career, found that all the 



