98 MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN 



are not here to be happy but to be good ' ; I wish 

 he had mended the phrase : ' We are not here to 

 be happy, but to try to be good,' comes nearer the 

 modesty of truth. With such old-fashioned moral- 

 ity, it is possible to get through life, and see the 

 worst of it, and feel some of the worst of it, and 

 still acquiesce piously and even gladly in man's 

 fate. Feel some of the worst of it, I say ; for some 

 of the rest of the worst is, by this simple faith, 

 excluded. 



It was in the year 1868, that the clouds finally 

 rose. The business in partnership with Mr. Forde 

 began suddenly to pay well ; about the same time 

 the patents showed themselves a valuable property ; 

 Hisap- and but a little after, Fleeming was appointed to 

 the new chair of engineering in the University of 



Edin- a Edinburgh. Thus, almost at once, pecuniary 

 burgh> embarrassments passed for ever out of his life. 

 Here is his own epilogue to the time at Claygate, 

 and his anticipations of the future in Edinburgh. 



' . . . The dear old house at Claygate is not let 

 and the pretty garden a mass of weeds. I feel 

 rather as if we had behaved unkindly to them. 

 We were very happy there, but now that it is over 

 I am conscious of the weight of anxiety as to money 

 which I bore all the time. With you in the garden, 

 with Austin in the coach-house, with pretty songs 

 in the little low white room, with the moonlight 

 in the dear room upstairs, ah, it was perfect ; but 



