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civilian, he had added a large acquaintance with 

 Persian poetry, and really loved the country to which 

 he had devoted himself chiefly from a desire to find a 

 more satisfactory and useful career than is now open 

 to young men at home with little or no fortune. 

 Perhaps he was too much of a student, disposed to 

 place too high a value on purely moral and intellec- 

 tual influences, and too much given to expect that 

 young officers should renounce all the follies of youth, 

 and old fighting colonels conduct themselves as if 

 they were children of light. That sprang, however, 

 from perfect genuineness arid beauty of character, to 

 which all things evil, or even questionable, were 

 naturally repulsive ; and it was wholly unaccompanied 

 by any tendency to condemn others, being simply a 

 desire to encourage them towards good. There was 

 not a little of the pure and chivalrous nature of Sir 

 Philip Sidney in Le Poer Wynne ; and he might 

 also be compared in character to the late Frederick 

 Robertson of Brighton, whose sermons he spoke to 

 me of as having made quite an era in his life. 

 European culture and thought had not taught him 

 to undervalue either the methods or the results of 

 " divine philosophy," nor had his mind been over- 

 whelmed by the modern revelations of the physical 

 universe, though he was well acquainted with them ; 

 arid his departure from much of traditional theology 

 had only led him to value more the abiding truths 

 of religion. Our conversation related only in part to 

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